Have Your Say JAM Aug 3, 2025

Sunday Sips with HG Helps | School buses, Holness in the street, Cuba and Windies Cricket

Reading Time: 6 minutesPeople often call the weeks or months before an election the ‘silly season’. Not in my book, though. It is actually the smart season, whereby you often get the best…

Have Your Say SLU Aug 2, 2025

UNAIDS hails historic St Lucia ruling decriminalising same-sex relations

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) celebrates the groundbreaking decision by the High Court of Justice in Saint Lucia declaring sections 132 and 133 of the Criminal Code unconstitutional…

Have Your Say JAM Aug 2, 2025

David Gumbs | Our Islands, Our Energy: The Plan for Caribbean Energy Independence

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn an increasingly unstable world, energy independence is no longer a lofty ambition—it’s a necessity. As geopolitical conflict disrupts fuel supply chains, those at the end of the chain suffer:…

Have Your Say JAM Aug 1, 2025

Prime Minister Andrew Holness | 2025 Emancipation Day message

Reading Time: 3 minutesMy fellow Jamaicans, Today holds profound meaning and solemn pride. It is a moment of reverence, remembrance, reflection, and reaffirmation. A day when we pause to honour the struggle, suffering,…

Have Your Say JAM Aug 1, 2025

Opposition Leader Mark Golding | 2025 Emancipation Day message

Reading Time: 4 minutesMy fellow Jamaicans, Today, we join together in solemn reflection and in powerful celebration as we observe Emancipation Day, 2025 – a sacred day in our nation’s history when we…

Have Your Say JAM Jul 30, 2025

MP Tova Hamilton | Delivering jobs, ownership and real opportunity in Trelawny Northern

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I stood at the Harmony Hall Great House for the symbolic ribbon cutting of the Harmony Cove development, I felt a deep sense of pride and responsibility. As the…

Have Your Say BDS Jul 30, 2025

Cricket West Indies | Don Wehby, a man of monumental stature, legacy

Reading Time: 3 minutesSome people serve cricket with a bat or ball in hand. Others, like Don Wehby, serve it with quiet conviction, deep love, and the courage to help shape what the…

Have Your Say USA Jul 29, 2025

Makhulu | Carnival Cruises unfairly labelled racist for blacks behaving unruly on their ships

Reading Time: 4 minutesNowadays, the race card is drawn quicker than the man with no name in ‘A Fist Full of Dollars‘. This can have a pernicious effect, causing companies, institutions and individuals…

Have Your Say JAM Jul 27, 2025

A nation pauses: Remembering Don Wehby, the gentleman giant

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Al Ezzo Lawson  This morning, Jamaicans across the globe awoke to somber news—the passing of Don Wehby, former Group CEO of GraceKennedy, one of our most respected sons. And…

Have Your Say USA Jul 27, 2025

Why it is unwise for Donald Trump to take on Rupert Murdoch in defamation court battle

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Jeffrey Epstein situation has the MAGA movement in a tizzy, and it seems hell bent on exposing prominent figures connected to the man who, it is said, engaged in…

Have Your Say JAM Jul 27, 2025

Dennis Chung | Don Wehby… A very special man

Reading Time: 5 minutesDon Wehby was someone I knew very well and worked with him at various times.  He was not only a friend, but he was a national treasure, and I was…

Have Your Say CUB Jul 27, 2025

Sunday Sips with HG Helps | Cuba’s tourism, Lester Coke, a brash Wayne Pinnock & Lawrence Rowe

Reading Time: 7 minutesCuba’s tourism continues to sparkle My visit to the island of Cuba last week revealed more things about its tourism product than I had seen on earlier trips. If it…