Jamaica should not become a tropical testing ground for an immature technology while immediate solutions—grid automation, rooftop solar, wind, biomass, microgrids, storage and energy efficiency—remain insufficiently pursued. Pause the spending. Publish the evidence. Answer the seven questions... Read More Online

A leader who voluntarily discloses, who invites independent audit, who answers hard questions without defensiveness, strengthens legitimacy. Transparency builds resilience. When scrutiny is welcomed rather than resisted, trust deepens. Conversely, when scrutiny is framed as hostility, when legitimate questions are dismissed as partisan attacks, polarisation intensifies. The public discourse coarsens.

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.