All across the earth, there are examples of identity crises. A teenager might really not want to be a child, but is still a child. A boy might really not want to be a male, but is still male. A man cub might really want to be a wolf and therefore...
Every time I hear talk of “cancelling Christmas” I cringe. The celebration by Christians of “the Word becoming flesh” cannot be cancelled by governments or shopkeepers. Any talk of “Christmas in July” makes a mockery of a serious event which has...
Even within the widespread destruction and human misery caused by Hurricane Melissa in western Jamaica, the parish of Westmoreland is a special special case. It is in need of urgent and specific interventions. It is not merely that Westmoreland...
After the hurricane, the environment is impacted by flooding, erosion, and contamination from sewage, dead animals, debris, agricultural waste and chemical substances. The effect is already being felt. While this article was being written, the...
Hurricanes of Melissa’s intensity are not meant to appear with such frequency, nor develop such destructive force just moments before landfall. Yet here we are, facing the climate reality scientists have warned us about for decades. Homes reduced...
IN TODAY’S world many of us are losing sight of the fact that modern conflicts have negative impacts upon our own well-being and make it even more difficult for small island developing states to achieve developmental goals. The conflicts between...
Roston Chase, the captain of the West Indies’ Test team, is right that the Caribbean’s cricket infrastructure lags behind what’s available to most of the region’s international counterparts. While these deficiencies may factor in the team’s...
Published:Wednesday | December 10, 2025 | 10:45 AM
Saying there are significant concerns by many in Jamaica and in the diaspora that the government on its own cannot be trusted to distribute hurricane relief without bias and favour would be an understatement. There is context for these concerns....
Published:Wednesday | December 10, 2025 | 12:07 AM
Godwin Friday’s government in St Vincent and the Grenadines is off to an unfortunate start. It has stumbled badly on its first significant ethical test. Dr Friday is allowing Kishore Shallow, the president of Cricket West Indies (CWI), to remain...
Published:Wednesday | December 10, 2025 | 12:07 AM
AS THERE remains concern about US military activities in the southern Caribbean in which, so far, 86 people have been killed in US military strikes on small boats, it came to attention that the 2025 US National Security Strategy (NSS) was published...
Published:Wednesday | December 10, 2025 | 12:06 AM
ON DECEMBER 4, the US Senate and Congress launched investigations into a horrific incident where unarmed fishermen, survivors of an American airstrike, were later deliberately targeted and killed while clinging to floating wreckage. This is a...
After the hurricane, the environment is impacted by flooding, erosion, and contamination from sewage, dead animals, debris, agricultural waste and chemical substances. The effect is already being felt. While this article was being written, the...
Recently, I’ve been forced to remember life’s meaning which has nothing to do with success or failure. Because I understand the real meaning of life, I don’t think about my successes especially as they are few. I’ll carry the memory of my failures...
Oversight is a crucial tool in governance for ensuring accountability, transparency and effectiveness. It enables adherence to rules and laws and, in doing so, acts as a vital check-and-balance to minimise corruption and waste. Five days after...
The Government’s movement to implement its so-called debt-reset programme for student borrowers will be of unquestionable value to the debtors, especially in an economically difficult post-hurricane period. However, the scheme, rolled out last week...
November 2025 was 60 years since the Race Relations Act of 1965 came into force. That act is acknowledged as the first piece of legislation in the United Kingdom to address the prohibition of racial discrimination. It made it a civil offence,...
There was, in the life of Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican now at rest, a quiet marvel: perhaps he never suspected how deeply his voice penetrated anonymous lives across the world, including my own. For many of us, he wasn’t just a distant artiste; he was...
There is one state in the US where they calculate the number of prison cells needed in 15 years time by checking the number of male students leaving grade 3 who cannot read. We could do the same. Except that we really don’t build new lockups. We...
Historically and universally the elected representatives of the people have been regarded as constituting the critical agents for the control of arbitrary government. An early and famous demonstration of this was the declaration of the principle...
Before October 28 when powerful Hurricane Melissa wrecked the west of the island, Jamaica was on a path of modest, but encouraging, recovery from the impact of hurricane Beryl of 2024. Inflation had cooled to 2.1 percent point-to-point in...
Almost six weeks ago, Hurricane Melissa devastated western Jamaica and exposed long-standing inequalities. It damaged 190,000 homes and hit the most vulnerable — families in board houses on leased and captured land — the hardest. As recovery...
Kishore Shallow, the president of Cricket West Indies, clearly doesn’t get it. Otherwise, he would be clear that moral questions, or potential conflicts of interest are not resolved by consulting appointments calendars to determine one’s capacity...
Current West Indies cricket captain Roston Chase was recently quoted as saying, after a series of poor batting performances by the WI test team, that the real challenge for the team was the weaknesses in the infrastructure in our cricket. While...
Sometimes the lines between competing positions can become so blurred, that one wonders if the ultimate objective can be accomplished. Two persons jumped to the front of the news last week. Member of parliament and former minister of...
I am a huge fan of the WhatsApp social media platform. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I get hundreds of messages daily. WhatsApp was especially helpful in maintaining stability, connectivity, and the sharing of important information during...
