For as ancient wisdom quietly reminds us, without vision a people perish — and empathy, patiently taught, is among the clearest forms of vision a society can possess.

Leadership worthy of the name emerges not from spreadsheets alone, but from disciplined moral imagination. Repairing the world order does not mean restoring some imagined golden age. It means recalibrating our collective compass: re-centering truth over traction, responsibility over reach, and long-term consequence over short-term gain. The academy also performs another quiet but essential function: formation. It does not merely produce research; it shapes minds...Read More

Hurricane Melissa again revealed the cost of centralised fragility. But, distributed rooftop solar offers households resilience where transmission lines repeatedly fail. When households generate energy, they gain protection from outages, fuel price shocks, and rising living costs.

Dr Jones is a Jamaican computational chemist and Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research, where he leads work in quantum applications spanning chemistry, materials science, catalysis, and polymer degradation. A Morant Bay High alumnus, he earned his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles, after attending Bard College, and joined IBM in 2010. He is internationally recognised for pioneering BPA-free plastics recycling and was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leadi

'Precisely three years and two days ago, my colleague, business partner, finest thought-clarifier, and most erudite friend, Dr Cynthia Elaine Lewis, passed over into Glory Land. She died suddenly on December 31, 2022. Toward the end of 2022, shortly before her passing, I coined the syllogism billioneering. Cynthia asked me—quietly but insistently—to define it rigorously. At the time, I did my best. It was not enough. What follows is a clarified Comparative Map: Billioneerin

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He said, Minott, stop it. Leave the Number 9 shirt alone. Get out of the way of the real forwards. And just like that, I desisted from my puerile vanity. I stepped back. It is a lesson Jamaica’s Cabinet Ministers—two of the women and nearly all the men—might consider before their next press conference or their next in-camera bright idea that becomes tomorrow’s national headache. The lesson is simple: do not wear the Number 9 shirt if you are not a striker...

Collapsed roads, failed culverts, unstable slopes, and flooded communities are not just the work of heavy rainfall. They are the consequences of political preference taking precedence over engineering judgement. This pattern recurs across administrations, but its effects become more lethal as climate risks rise...Read More

Black River is one of our oldest towns of elegance, enterprise, science, and firsts: electrification, motor vehicles, cinema, trade, and progressive civic life. It carries a legacy of outward-looking innovation that must not be allowed to fade. Its river, coastline, mangroves, and wetlands form a priceless natural defence system and ecological treasure—one which Melissa has reminded us is fragile. To rebuild Black River in the same way it was before would be a national mis

Some will argue that criminalising climate-denialism infringes on freedom of speech. But free speech has never implied the right to cause public harm. One cannot shout “fire” in a crowded theatre. One cannot freely advertise cyanide as cough syrup. One cannot spread medical falsehoods that endanger children. In the same way, one should not be permitted to knowingly spread scientifically disproven narratives that: undermine disaster preparedness, influence vulnerable commun

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The space for error has collapsed to near zero, while the space for potent, paralysing criticism has expanded outside of Gordon House to fill the vacuum. You are not so much a sun around which the political system orbits, but a star in a delicate binary system, acutely aware of the opposing pull and the immense empty spaces surrounding you.

Behind the neat rows of school timetables lies harmful buffoonery, where pools-timetabling locks children’s dreams into cages and wastes...

For decades, our health system benefited from physicians trained in Burma, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Ghana, Hungary, India, Latin America, Nigeria, Russia, the UK, and the United States. Their children sat in our classrooms and their parents were among the most trusted doctors of our families. No one questioned their competence. Why then the sudden disdain for Jamaican youngsters graduating with Chinese diplomas? Is it because they did not enter medical school with enough

A hypothetical government programme to install a minimum capacity of 150 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload speeds in every Jamaican household would not be a mere infrastructure upgrade; it would be the foundational act of a profound national transformation, catalysing economic growth, social equity, and democratic renewal. High-speed, reliable internet is the central nervous system of modern commerce. For Jamaica, this would unlock several tiers of economic potential...

Our business schools must urgently recalibrate their mission, not as factories for conventional managers, but as midwives for a sustainable, resilient, and just economy tailor-made for both island and mountainous realities throughout the region.

Let us remember: 1. Puerto Rico’s Bonus Reactor shut down in disgrace. 2. Cuba’s reactor project collapsed amid geopolitical complications. 3. The Dominican Republic mothballed its nuclear ambitions. 4. Haiti in its heyday, wisely, never attempted one. Instead of chasing nuclear mirages, Jamaica must double down on proven, scalable, and socially embedded renewables:..

It is not hyperbole to say that energy is destiny. And for too long, Jamaica's destiny has been dictated not by the people, nor by the imperatives of justice or resilience, but by monopolistic inertia. The 2027 expiration of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo)'s all-island licence is no mere bureaucratic milestone—it is a generational pivot point.

Wayne joined the T&T Police Service, graduating at the very top of his class, and serving faithfully in some of the most dangerous zones of North Trinidad. Roughly 30 years ago, he heeded God’s call to full-time ministry and took up the pastorate of a Nazarene congregation in Laventille, one of the most crime-plagued, drug-ravaged, gang-controlled, and economically underprivileged districts in the country. There was no fanfare or applause.Yet for 30 years, Wayne gave his

In many congregations that proudly wear the labels “Bible-believing” or “Spirit-filled” we now see Jesus’ name being used to justify: • Nationalist agendas that criminalise foreigners and asylum-seekers; • Uncritical loyalty to leaders who embody greed, cruelty, or deceit; •Hostility to science, learning, or reform, all waved away as “worldly”; • Prosperity gospel peddling, now bordering on spiritual racketeering. Such distortions of faith are not rare. They are daily