*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: 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,...

*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...

In Jamaica, the subject matter of abortion is as controversial, divisive and “touchy” as it is enigmatic. It is all of the above and more...

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

*The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Image credit: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (www.jcpc.uk). Copyright © 2022...

*Image credit: The Verge. Copyright © 2022 The Verge. Over time, calls for the regulation of FRTs have intensified due to growing...

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