Commentary
April 4, 2026
Editorial | Humanity’s quest to reach the Moon and beyond
History was repeated on the evening of April 1 when Artemis II, carrying four astronauts, lifted off for a 10-day journey around the Moon – more than five decades after the first human landed on…
April 4, 2026
Editorial | Name criteria for the new coach
Despite his parsing of the issue, there seems little doubt that Rudolph Speid harbours the ambition of a permanent appointment as Jamaica’s national football coach. This newspaper makes no judgement…
April 4, 2026
Editorial | Listen to Richard Byles
Richard Byles, the governor of Jamaica’s central bank, may have addressed the broad principle, without specific entities in mind. But his call last week for strong boards at financial companies was…
April 5, 2026
Danielle Archer | Jamaica’s unspoken emergency
Jamaica does not suffer from a shortage of coastline. We suffer from a shortage of leaders willing to defend the people’s right to it. Across the Caribbean, we have perfected a leadership culture…
April 4, 2026
Tony Deyal | Cane is a slaver – yes, no, or done dead already?
On the 45th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago At my age, 80 plus, I still don’t know if sugar cane is a fruit, a grass, a vegetable, a…
April 4, 2026
Christopher Burgess | NaRRA and lessons from Dominica
Jamaica now stands at a crossroads, much like Dominica did in 2017. Category 5 Hurricane Maria damaged 90 per cent of Dominica’s housing stock and caused losses equivalent to 230 per cent of GDP. The…
April 4, 2026
Ronald Sanders | The Caribbean being forced to reconsider trade dependence on the US
The Caribbean has not set out to loosen its trade dependence on the United States. It is being driven to do so. For generations, Caribbean importers and consumers have looked first to the American…
April 4, 2026
Garth Rattray | Religions should be more tolerant
Many people do not realise that Jesus’ name was not ‘Jesus Christ’. In keeping with the tradition at that time, He was likely called Yeshua ben-Yosef (Yeshua son of Joseph). Furthermore, ‘Christ’…
April 4, 2026
Orville Taylor | CARICOM a model for international peace
Exactly five years ago, I woke up on Resurrection Sunday, after fighting for more than two weeks with the COVID-19 virus, which tried every night to kill me. In my head, a song, whose chorus eluded my…