Commentary

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Fayval Williams.
December 2025

Editorial | Clarity on the recovery package

With impressive speed, the Jamaican Government and its international financial partners announced a US$6.7 billion package to finance the island’s reconstruction from the destruction from Hurricane Melissa.

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Representational image of an elderly gentleman working on a computer.
December 2025

Denise Eldemire-Shearer | Older persons and upside and flipside of technology

For older persons, technology covers a wide array of things, ranging from at-home devices to social media, especially WhatsApp, to financial management, and there are differing attitudes and responses…
Christopher Burgess
December 2025

Christopher Burgess | Upgrading insurance and infrastructure

Hurricanes are becoming more destructive. What cost Jamaica under US$1 billion in the 1950s now costs nearly US$9 billion in 2025 — damaging roads, water systems, cutting power to most of the island,…
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December 2025

Orville Taylor | Dick stands alone

A surname like mine often makes me the butt of corny jokes. However, having a dressmaker mother, and more than basic competence with a sewing machine and scissors, the joke is on those who asked me…
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December 2025

Garth Rattray | Standstill traffic causes standstill business

Nowadays, I find myself either quoting or referring to my father (of blessed memory). He was a visionary trapped in and limited by a flawed bureaucratic system ... a system that still exists today.…
December 2025

Editorial | Delivering basic rights of children

There are ongoing concerns about the state of the world’s children, wherein one in five children in low- and middle-income countries are severely deprived in at least two areas crucial for their…
December 2025

Tony Deyal | Raging, paging and ageing for Christmas

At 80-plus years, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Not remembering what I’m saying makes me, like Winston Churchill, the British statesman,…
This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s X account, and partially redacted by the source, shows an oil tanker being seized by US forces off the coast of Venezuela.
December 2025

Ronald Sanders | Weakness of sovereignty exposed: Why CARICOM should stand together

The Caribbean is living through a moment of rising geopolitical tension. As the United States intensifies pressure on the Maduro government in Venezuela, the ripples reach CARICOM shores fast. None of…
This photo shows remains of board houses strewn in Retirement, Bluefields, Westmoreland, which were destroyed by Hurricane Melissa.
December 2025

Editorial | Westmoreland after Melissa

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…
Peter Espeut writes: ... the preparation in the season of Advent is not just about baking and buying and wrapping; it is also about self-examination and repentance and changing our ways.
December 2025

Peter Espeut | Celebrating the incarnation

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…