Have Your Say JAM Nov 15, 2025

Dionne Jackson Miller and Zahra Burton are being unjustly pilloried

Reading Time: 5 minutes  Both Dionne Jackson Miller of the RJR/Gleaner Group and Zhara Burton of 18 Degrees North, are experienced, probing journalists. At the government press briefings following the destruction wrought by…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 15, 2025

Pamela Redwood | Experience must lead the hurricane response as Jamaica faces its greatest test

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the arrival of Ronald Jackson, Dr Barbara Carby is to be called to duty. Jamaica now stands at a decisive point where experience, skill, and sound judgment must lead…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 15, 2025

Dr Norman Grant | A plea to Minister Floyd Green to help the coffee industry 

Reading Time: 6 minutesJamaica’s coffee industry has suffered tremendous damage from category five Hurricane Melissa, with initial estimated losses placed at J$1 billion to Blue Mountain coffee. Henceforth, coffee farmers will suffer in…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 13, 2025

Daryl Vaz vs Buju Banton: Another case of hurricane recovery drama

Reading Time: 4 minutesHurricane Melissa wrought extensive damage on Jamaica, and the recovery effort is front and centre in the public consciousness. However, it has come under some criticism, some believing it is…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 12, 2025

Dr Espinosa Campbell | When the healer is also Wounded: Caring for the caregivers in Jamaica’s disasters

Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce you go on the ground and engage with the people who are affected, something inside you changes. The stories of loss, the faces of despair, the quiet resilience—all of…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 9, 2025

Sunday Sips with HG Helps | ODPEM and Richard Thompson, good move to encourage farmers, countries could assist with residency, and Alick Athanaze’s kind words

Reading Time: 7 minutesODPEM’s movement and sidelining of Richard Thompson  The move to send Richard Thompson, acting director general of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), to push paper at Jamaica House,…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 4, 2025

General Food Supermarket | Committed to Serving, Even Through the Storm

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe were made aware of the Jamaica Observer article published on November 2, 2025, titled The Government has ordered a price freeze on essential goods amid reports of mark-ups at…

Have Your Say TTO Nov 4, 2025

Chalsey Gill Anthony | Hurricane Melissa shows why everyday Caribbean workers need financial protection

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Hurricane Melissa ripped across the Caribbean just a few days ago, it damaged roads and power lines and disrupted the way thousands of people earn a living. In Jamaica,…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 2, 2025

African-Americans lambast Jamaican hotels for not providing tip-top service during Hurricane Melissa

Reading Time: 7 minutesIt is all over TikTok and other preferred social media platforms of Gen Z and ‘keyboard warriors’. African-Americans complaining that they got poor service on their vacation to Jamaica during…

Have Your Say JAM Nov 2, 2025

Sunday Sips with HG Helps | Unified recovery team needed, TVJ and CVM shine, Mel Brown’s legacy and remembering Barry G

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe almost unbelievable destruction wreaked upon sections of Jamaica by category five Hurricane Melissa means that efforts at tackling the effects of the island’s worst natural disaster must be taken…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 30, 2025

Private sector bodies stand united in support of Jamaica’s recovery after Hurricane Melissa

Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce again, Jamaica faces another test of strength and resilience. Hurricane Melissa has written yet another chapter in our nation’s story—one that reminds us of who we are: a people…

Have Your Say JAM Oct 29, 2025

A message from Opposition Leader and PNP President Mark Golding

Reading Time: 1 minuteMy fellow Jamaicans, in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, we have witnessed great challenges. But in the face of this adversity, we have also witnessed the unbreakable spirit of our…