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

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

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...

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...

*Image Credit- Comrade Sister: Women in the Black Panther Party (ACC Art Books, 2022). It has been over three years since the outcome of...

* "AI in Legal Practice". Image Credit: Lego Desk. Copyright © 2022 Lego Desk. In recent times, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

*Image credit: Intellectual Property Office- Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago. Copyright...

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*Image credit: EDRi. Copyright © 2022 EDRi. In July of 2020, the Jamaica Gleaner reported, to little fanfare, that high-tech CCTV...