Now available on Amazon. River Tales and Environmental Realities, by Donovan Reynolds.
When a dancehall deejay asks a question that the Auditor General has already asked, and the Prime Minister answers with a joke about the guest list, something has gone wrong with how Jamaica holds power to account.
Tomorrow, Americans choose a new Congress. The polls point to a Democratic House and a knife-edge Senate. Here is what is at stake, where the battle will be won or lost, and why it matters to all of us in the Caribbean family, wherever we live.
As King Charles tours the Caribbean, the Leader of the Opposition has dismissed the call for a British apology for slavery and cast the Prime Minister as the nation's "chief apologiser". Kingston Mouth believes her case rests on a misreading of the constitution, of the Caribbean's demands, and of history.
When three CARICOM governments stepped back from their usual vote on Cuba at the United Nations this week, some called it a Faustian pact with Washington. I see something different: small states doing what small states must do in a harder world, which is to protect their people's interests without burning any bridges.
Haiti's security crisis, a looming European deadline for citizenship-by-investment programmes and the region's climate stance ahead of COP31 led a busy week for the Caribbean Community. Add a royal tour, a renewed push on reparations and delicate talks with Washington, and it is clear the region's leaders have plenty on their plates as November begins.
Jamaica's decision to abstain, for the first time in more than three decades, on the United Nations resolution condemning the United States embargo against Cuba marks a significant moment in the nation's foreign policy.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva trailed after Brazil's first round, then won the runoff by 4.4 million votes to secure a historic fourth term.
Israel went to the polls on 27 October and, two days later, nobody has won. Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc is the largest, but it sits eight seats short of a majority.
As King Charles arrives in Antigua for the Commonwealth summit, the Caribbean calls it the "reparations CHOGM" and London says no apology and no payment. We argue that Jamaica's petition to the Privy Council has quietly become the region's strongest card, and set out what our leaders should ask for this week.
Next Tuesday, 3 November, Americans vote in the midterm elections, and the polls say Democrats go in as favourites to take back Congress.
A year after Hurricane Melissa, about 20 hotels are still closed, insurance claims are being "settled short", and families, farmers and small businesses in the west are still waiting. We ask where the money has gone and what government, insurers and the opposition must do now.
Washington's US$340 million Caribbean package buys cables, ports and policing, but not the resilient energy CARICOM asked for. We ask whether the new US–Caribbean Dialogue is a partnership or leverage, and what Jamaica must insist on.
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