Commentary
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Christian fundamentalism and Zionism
The area called Canaan is an ancient territory encompassing all of today’s Palestine and Syria west of the Jordan River. Because of its strategic location between Europe, Asia, and Africa, over…
December 9, 2025
Kristen Gyles | AI makes it as a minister
A few days ago, the world reached a historic milestone – its first-ever AI cabinet minister. The Prime Minister of Albania introduced to the Albanian parliament, a female avatar dressed in traditional…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Errald Miller’s gift
If you don’t, or no longer, have an ethical obligation to allow public scrutiny of your private affairs, then being open about the state of your health is a sensitive, and likely difficult, decision. …
December 9, 2025
Basil Jarrett | Nagging nurturers: The role of women in our survival
LAST WEEK, I wrote about the perils of ignoring prostate health, and, in the days since, I’ve been stopped everywhere, from supermarket aisles to my favourite patty shop, by women, yes, women, who…
December 9, 2025
John Junor | Get the record straight on P.J. Patterson’s legacy
WESLEY MORRIS’ September 7 article on former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson’s tenure reads less like serious political analysis. His surgical cherry-picking of the 1992-1995 period is a masterclass in…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Whither the drainage plan?
The flooding and traffic gridlock caused by the thunderstorm over the capital on Friday starkly reminded us of the drainage problem faced by Jamaica’s cities and towns, and raised questions about the…
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | 80th UN General Assembly: an unpredictable high-level week
THE 80TH session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) commenced on September 9. This should be a session commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in 1945 with…
December 9, 2025
Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Promises without timelines: Jamaica’s environmental future needs accountability
IN THE lead-up to the recent general elections, both political parties made promises about how they would manage and protect Jamaica’s natural environment. With the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) new…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | What’s with the Abbas vote?
It might otherwise have gone unnoticed and uncommented on. But the exceptional circumstances of Gaza, and Jamaica’s previous misstep in a related UN vote, requires that Kingston explain why it didn’t…