Commentary

17 Oct, 2026 0

Tony Deyal | Where do we go from here?

(This is to thank Ms Reetoo Deonarinesingh for working with “My Trinidad - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”) Keeping with us tonight to look ahead at where we plan to go from here, I feel that we…
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks at a news conference on the Global Policy Agenda forum during the annual meetings of the IMFand the World Bank Group in Bangkok, Thailand,.
17 Oct, 2026 0

Ronald Sanders | Caribbean ‘too rich for help’: When will the fiction end?

On October 14, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between…
16 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | Extend water-party ban

Given the drought Jamaica has faced, bouts of showers in recent days, associated with a trough in the central Caribbean, are a welcome development. It, however, doesn’t mean that the island is out of…
Half of this home in Bog, Westmoreland crumbled during the passage of Hurricane Melissa last October.
16 Oct, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | While Hurricane Melissa victims wait

Imagine there’s a large 10-storey building down the road that has caught fire. The building has people in it. The building has very expensive equipment in it. The building has furniture in it. The…
16 Oct, 2026 0

Peter Espeut | Slavery and chattel slavery

I recommend that you watch the video recording of a seminar by John Shorter, held Thursday (October 8) by the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank titled ‘Asante Goldweights and…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the Pnyx hill, where ancient Athenians held democratic assemblies, with the ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, October 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
15 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | The politics of an execution

America’s planned livestreaming of the firing-squad execution of Muslim-American former Army officer Nidal Hasan in December seems, in the context of a liberal democracy in the 21st century, a…
People salvage the contents of their destroyed mini mart in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaias in Milton, Florida, Saturday, October 10, 2026.
15 Oct, 2026 0

Dalila Gonçalves/Nahuel Arenas | Investing in resilient infrastructure:

It takes less than two minutes to lose a home – and with it, a lifetime of hard work and savings. Viviana Gil knows this firsthand. On August 10, a 7.4 earthquake in Colombia destroyed the apartment…
Dwayne Vernon
15 Oct, 2026 0

Dwayne Vernon | NaRRA: Hubris on the waterfront

The ancient Greeks had a word for the moment a powerful man starts believing his own press releases: hubris. They also had a word for what comes next: nemesis. Between the two lies a long history of…
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14 Oct, 2026 0

Editorial | Who has it in for the CCJ?

Were this newspaper given to conspiracy theories, it might believe that there is a deliberate attempt to undermine and collapse the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) from within. Either that, or some…