Commentary

US President Donald Trump (right) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
December 2025

Norris R. McDonald | Trump, Hegseth, and US hegemony: Blood in our waters

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…
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December 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | US National Security Strategy – modernising the Monroe Doctrine

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…
Ambassador (Ret) Curtis A. Ward, attorney-at-law; and former Ambassador/DPR of Jamaica to the United Nations Security Council.
December 2025

Curtis Ward | Be vigilant: expose corruption in hurricane relief and recovery

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…
A client in the new SLB office.
December 2025

Editorial | Income-linked student loans

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…
Michael Abrahams writes: Calls for such broad-based oversight have also been made by the Opposition, civil society, journalists, social commentators, vloggers and others, but the pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
December 2025

Michael Abrahams | We must demand broad-based oversight

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…
Gordon Robinson writes: You’ve nothing to learn from your successes. But your failures are your best teachers.
December 2025

Gordon Robinson | Family is everything

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…
Jimmy Cliff in Zambia in 1982. Pictured are: (from left) President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia; Jimmy Cliff, and Mumba Kapumpa, Director of the Zambian Arts Council. Seated behind President Kaunda is Sam Nujoma, then leader of the SWAPO liberation movement a
December 2025

Sousa Jamba | Jimmy Cliff’s African Legacy

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…
Professor Augustine John, Human Rights campaigner and Honorary Fellow at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London.
December 2025

Professor Gus John | A marriage made in hell

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…
Dr Kishore Shallow
December 2025

Editorial | Kishore Shallow must go

Kishore Shallow, the president of Cricket West Indies, clearly doesn’t get it.