Commentary

Cancer does not only affect the body. It turns lives upside down. On this World Cancer Day, before we speak of systems, strategies, or statistics, we should first recognise the people who step forward when life is disrupted – quietly, persistently...

There are few tragedies more enduring than an education system that systematically undermines the very people it claims to uplift. In Jamaica, where more than 11 per cent of the adult population remains functionally illiterate, the consequence is...

Artificial intelligence tools are becoming increasingly common in real estate offices worldwide, and Jamaica is no exception. From drafting property descriptions to enhancing images and managing client communication, AI is now being used by some...

In Panama last week, Kamina Johnson Smith, the foreign affairs and foreign trade minister, told international investors that the island’s post-hurricane reconstruction made Jamaica the right place for them at this time. “We have massive...

On January 30, along with a team that included Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Carla Barnett, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Terrance Drew paid an official visit to Trinidad and Tobago. Drew met with the Prime Minister of...

The passage of Hurricane Melissa last October has put Jamaica’s infrastructure resilience, especially in the built environment, front and centre. Jamaica, as a small island developing state (SIDS), faces unique challenges in implementing...

Last week’s call by Prime Minister Andrew Holness for policy coherence and partnerships between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the face of an increasingly discordant and uncertain global environment, is a welcome, and...

This collaborative opinion piece has been penned after extensive thought sharing and discussions with a group of concerned senior church leaders who are members and leaders of a pastors association, the Watchman Church Leaders Alliance and a...

Men who grew up close to their mothers and those in long term residential relationships have no problem with female leadership. Last week in Parliament, two women, each of whose name might relate to their personae, touched two issues that are dear...

While we commend the education ministry’s various initiatives to deliver education to children in Jamaica’s storm-ravaged regions, the government perhaps needs a broader strategy to head-off a related, and potentially deep social problem caused by...

For David E Bratt MD who believed “Trinidad being Trinidad, you cannot not have a jokey category,” and “The good: the Carnival spirit. So, little yet so the little means so much.” When it comes to Carnival in Trinidad, what we know for sure is...

As was recently promised by the information minister, Dana Morris Dixon, the government has advertised for a chief executive officer for the new agency that is to lead Jamaica’s reconstruction from Hurricane Melissa. The CEO, according to the...