Commentary
July 14, 2026
Ronald Thwaites | Revival time
This is the hardest time of year for those of us who are concerned with high-school placement. The Ministry of Education oozes self-satisfaction that nine out of ten transitioning students were…
July 14, 2026
Christopher Burgess | Jamaica’s no-competition, no-growth economy
Jamaica’s economy has a persistent low-growth problem. For five decades, growth has remained stuck at roughly one per cent annually, while comparable economies have expanded at two to four per cent.…
July 14, 2026
Editorial | FID not the place
Matthew Samuda is probably well-meaning. But his proposal that the review of wealth declarations by members of Parliament’s Integrity Commission (IC) Oversight Committee be removed from the IC is a…
July 12, 2026
Editorial | The geopolitics of Alpart
The announcement by the mining minister, Floyd Green, that China’s Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) plans to spend US$490 million to modernise and increase capacity at their Alpart alumina…
July 12, 2026
Dennis Zulu | New global standard for decent work in the digital economy
The digital platform economy, often associated with the “gig economy”, has expanded at a rapid pace in many countries across the world over the past decade.
It is now well documented that digital…
July 12, 2026
Patrick Robinson | A statue of the transformational coach
Where did it all begin? In a paper for a workshop, Stephen Francis wrote that, in 1998 at the World Junior Championships in France, he listened as coaches from the US said, “Coaching teenagers is…
July 12, 2026
Garth Rattray | If Jamaican politics were football
Imagine if Jamaican politics were like a football competition. Although the outcome of the match would determine the future of the country, although generations lobbied and fought for there to be free…
July 12, 2026
Orville Taylor | Integrity and corruption
As the last of the African teams got eliminated from the World Cup and we get ready for the semi-finals, there are so many stories which are competing for my head space.
Indeed, some bizarre endings…
July 12, 2026
Ronald Sanders | Vulgarity of asking enslaved to pay
Suella Braverman, a child of Indian parents from Mauritius and Kenya, yet, like many other ultra‑ambitious British politicians, she has consistently distinguished herself by remarks that are unhelpful…