Commentary
June 14, 2026
Orville Taylor | To be global, host must be neutral
Proud I am that the only UN body that is headquartered in a developing country is in Jamaica. It is a big deal. Other UN organs, such as the WHO and the ILO, are based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a…
June 13, 2026
Editorial | Lessons from Cox’s Bazar
It isn’t a name that’s familiar to the people of Jamaica, or the wider Caribbean –Cox’s Bazar.
Cox’s Bazar is a 13 square kilometre tent city in Bangladesh. The people who live there, 1.2 million…
June 13, 2026
Ronald Sanders | Why the Commonwealth matters again
Small and medium-size states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle-income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power…
June 13, 2026
Tony Deyal | From the calypsonians - rolling goals or holes?
Lord Melody (Fitzroy Alexander), was a Trinidadian calypsonian best known for ‘singles such as Boo Boo Man, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Shame & Scandal, Jonah and the Bake, Juanita,…
June 12, 2026
Peter Espeut | Raiding the house money
I remember clearly when the National Housing Trust (NHT) was established in 1976; I was in my 20s.
In 1975 the total national budget was roughly J$800 million, and Jamaica had an acute housing…
June 12, 2026
Patrice Quesada | What migration dialogues reveal about the Caribbean’s future
The last few weeks have been particularly rich for migration dialogues in the Caribbean. Moving between global, regional and national spaces, I’m encouraged by how they point in the same direction:…
June 13, 2026
Editorial | NWC audit reveals a lie
There is a notable takeaway from the auditor-general’s (AuG) review of capital projects by the National Water Commission (NWC), which has thus far received little attention. Because it is…
June 12, 2026
Leroy Fearon | Darkness on our roads, a national concern
Recently, while travelling from Trelawny to Kingston at night, I was reminded of a troubling reality that many motorists experience daily – the alarming darkness that blankets significant sections of…
June 12, 2026
Wayne Campbell | Reimagine beyond the world we know
For many of us, the ocean is distant and far-removed from our daily realities. For too long this narrative has been normalised and we have treated the ocean as separate from us. However, the ocean is…