Commentary

My visit to Jamaica this week comes just over a month after Hurricane Melissa – the strongest storm ever recorded here – swept across the island, leaving devastation in its wake. I will be visiting the western parishes that bore the brunt of the...

Ignorance can be fatal. Panicked demagogues drew attention to a pond teeming with tadpoles. In a viral video, thousands of little black creatures wriggling and darkening the water. They were so plentiful that J$100 for each single animated dot...

Over the years, human beings have been extremely inventive and creative in discovering, inventing, or improving / developing things that are extremely useful to us as a race. Although we (collectively) bask in our scientific achievements, and lord...

We are in an era of overlapping crises – global financial instability, widening inequalities, and escalating climate shocks, among others, which compound the challenges faced by people living with and most affected by HIV globally. The devastation...

This commentary is dedicated to Patrick Cozier of Barbados, whose probing occasioned its writing. In my article last week, ‘Hunger and war: The oldest crime the world still permits’, I argued that global hunger is not caused by a lack of food but...

It seems that the only interests that went home happy after the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30) that wrapped up last Saturday in Belém, Brazil, were the oil-producing countries....

Hurricane Melissa did more than devastate homes, infrastructure, and livelihoods across Jamaica. It exposed a weakness we have ignored for far too long. Our highly centralised system of government cannot keep pace with the principles of sustainable...

With markets uncertain about the company’s continued control of Jamaica’s power grid, the Government’s decision to lend Jamaica Public Service (JPS) US$150 million to help pay for the post-Melissa rebuilding of its electricity transmission and...

ON MONDAY morning with the announcement of the death of one of Jamaica’s most outstanding reggae music pioneers, Jimmy Cliff, the temptation was to focus on his career, his achievements, including his many international hit songs, and his starring...

ZOHRAN MAMDANI, a self-declared democratic socialist, has achieved what many thought was impossible: he defeated the Democratic party’s old guards, including Andrew Cuomo, to become New York’s mayor. Mamdani’s victory is a political earthquake. It...

In 2017, the Jamaica Yellow Pages produced a telephone directory with a cover featuring a painting depicting a dancehall session. However, a church lobby group, the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS), led a campaign against the cover,...