Last year, I came to the ineluctable conclusion that the taxpayer-funded Consumer Affairs Commission of Jamaica (CAC) is truly useless in...

*Image credit: Antigua Newsroom With the AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution now in full swing, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming embedded in policing, healthcare, employment, and other critical areas of social life. While the Commonwealth Caribbean lags behind more technologically developed regions in AI uptake and deployment, there have been discernible movements toward a measured socio-technical integration of AI across the region.   Thus far, at least on

*Image credit: inclusivv (formerly civic dinners) On July 29, 2025, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (“the ECSC”) [1]  delivered its judgment in the landmark decision of Randall Theodule & Ors v The Attorney General of Saint Lucia  [2025] ECSC J0729-1 (“the ECSC decision”), where it declared sections 132 and 133 of Saint Lucia’s Criminal Code, Cap. 3.01 of the Revised Edition of the Laws of Saint Lucia (“sections 132 and 133 of the Criminal Code”) unconstitutional. Crucial

*Image credit: World Intellectual Property Organisation In recent times, the synergistic connections between Geographical Indications (GIs) and sustainable development have become a focal point of discussions around the global developmental agenda. Indeed, this is to be expected in an era where intellectual property (IP) is increasingly becoming recognised as the “oil of the 21st century” . As such, there has been a proliferation of studies exploring (both directly and indire

*Image credit: SoundThinking. On September 29, 2025, a Guyanese newspaper reported that “starting today, all law enforcement officers...

*Image credit: The Desert Flower Foundation The practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of the most egregious manifestations...

*Image credit: UNICEF. International Day of Play (“IDP”) passed on June 11, 2025, to very little fanfare. However, this relative...

*Image credit: World Bank Blogs (2025) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly establishing itself as the centrepiece of the Fourth...

Dear Editor, Reparative justice for the transatlantic slave trade and the centuries of oppression, exploitation, and violence it has...

The JCF’s stated intention to roll out facial recognition technologies (FRTs) reflects a desire to modernize policing efforts. While...

In many Commonwealth Caribbean countries, the state dictates when and in what circumstances a woman can have an abortion, if at all. To...

UX Design, as a subset of User-Centred Design (UCD), seeks to meaningfully enhance a user’s interactive experience with a product,...

Indigenous peoples across the Caribbean face several challenges in post-colonial societies that cling to a violent colonial past founded...

*Image credit: The National Judicial College While AI systems have proven beneficial to humankind in several ways, their deployment has...

Just last week, I found myself watching intently as a spoilt, entitled man-child harassed his elderly mother for money to feed his...

Dear Consumer Affairs Commission of Jamaica,   I write as a deeply concerned Jamaican consumer to express my sheer dissatisfaction with...

Mr. Stewart, I am writing to express my sheer disgust with the handling of an ongoing issue by ATL Automotive/Autobahn Limited (“ATL”)....

AI Ethicism will become even more valuable for Jamaica and the Caribbean. This is but one realization I came to earlier this month as I...

On September 19, 2024, the Jamaica Gleaner reported that the Supreme Court of Jamaica had ruled against automotive juggernaut ATL...

*Image Credit: WIRED. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have increased in...