Commentary

The 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States recently concluded, with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders and other small island developing states (SIDS) policymakers determined to collaborate on a future of resilience and...

Since Wednesday, only two of my friends who live on the south coast could be reached by phone. One of them had to leave his community to get cell phone signal. Hurricane Beryl came and some of us took her lightly as if she were a troop of...

Members of the island’s agricultural sector are at this time counting their losses as they continue to assess the damage to crops, livestock and infrastructure, wrought by Hurricane Beryl earlier this week. It’s a ritual that is undertaken almost...

International Joke Day was Monday, July 1. I had planned to post an article with a background and lots of jokes for my readers. However, given what Hurricane Beryl was doing to so many of our countries and people in the region, I decided to reach...

“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and he has no one to thank.” – G.K. Chesterton Some of us were spared serious damage by powerful Hurricane Beryl, for which we are grateful. People of faith will claim divine...

There is perhaps little else the Government and its agencies could have done to mobilise Jamaicans for the passage of Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday. As forecast, the island took a thumping from the Category 4 storm, after the havoc it caused in the...

IS DUAL citizenship evidence of ‘split loyalties’ which should preclude individuals from the highest offices? While this question is not new within the Caribbean, it has recently been discussed in Jamacia, where Prime Minister Holness argued that...

If we have been lucky, Hurricane Beryl tracked further south of Jamaica, saving the island from the brunt of its fierce winds and driving rain. But with or without that fortune, Beryl is a reminder of three realities that face small island...

Recently, I attended the book launch of Roadblock, Jamaica’s resistance to the Caribbean Court of Justice by A.J. Nicholson. The event caused reflection on our constitutional reform process, colonialism and Jamaica’s attempts to break the vestiges...

Daryl Vaz’s suggestion that a portion of the fines the Government collects from traffic tickets be used to fund an ongoing road-safety campaign is, on its face, a worthy idea. However, while educating Jamaicans about how to use the roads safely...

When $700 billion has not been satisfactorily accounted for: when there is an unacknowledged spike of maternal and neo-natal deaths which are only disclosed after Opposition questioning: when there are admitted inadequacies causing death, also...

“…Today, close to 80 per cent of Singapore’s residents live in public housing, and about 90 per cent of the units are owned on a 99-year lease…” states the May 29 New York Times. In the 1960s, Singapore was one of the poorest nations where three...