In Focus

Kristen Gyles writes: All Jamaicans want is a reasonable explanation as to why officers who are engaged in planned operations are not being outfitted with BWCs. And why should they not get one?
January 25, 2026

Mark Shields | Body-worn cameras don’t stop bullets – but they can stop lies

When a police officer steps into a volatile situation, a body-worn camera will not disarm a gunman, calm a violent suspect, or magically de-escalate every confrontation. That much is obvious. So when…
AP Children sort through trash at a landfill in al-Bureij camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
January 25, 2026

Jalil Dabdoub | Mandela’s warning: Colonialism, leadership, and the cost of selective principles

There is an irony in watching the United States revive the language of territorial ambition toward Denmark, while Europe gasps in horror. For centuries, Europe refined colonial violence into policy,…
File Allan Bernard writes: When police killings approach a third or more of total violent deaths ... it becomes a question of strategy, proportionality, and legitimacy.
January 25, 2026

Allan Bernard | Why Jamaica must count all its dead

The reduction in Jamaica’s murder rate in 2025 is a development that warrants careful attention. Recording 673 murders, the lowest figure in more than three decades, represents a notable departure…
The mangled remains of the Black River Market in St Elizabeth following the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28, last year.
January 25, 2026

Dennis Minott | When a nation names its big mistakes

In the English-speaking world, place-names often do the quiet work of history. They remember what speeches forget. They archive errors that reports smooth over. One such name, recurring with…
Stephen ‘Cat’ Coore
January 25, 2026

Gordon Robinson | None such!

In the beginning there was Inner Circle. Then Michael “Ibo” Cooper (keyboards); Stephen “Cat” Coore (guitar/cello); Milton “Prilly” Hamilton (lead vocals); Richard Daley (bass); Carl Barovier (drums)…
AP People rally as Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado meets with President Donald Trump at the White House on January 15 in Washington DC.
January 25, 2026

Mark Wignall | This is what suits Trump

The reader recently wrote to me on the current situation in Venezuela. “The first time I wrote to you was many years ago when I offered you the chance to compare a verse selection from Kipling that…
Dena Spence Hyatt writes: Even more troubling is how many workplaces respond - or fail to respond - to women’s biological realities.
January 18, 2026

Dena Spence Hyatt | Supporting women beyond career versus motherhood debate

As a society, we repeatedly stress the importance of women bearing children, often warning that “time is running out”. At the same time, recent demographic data show declining fertility rates,…
The University Hospital of the West Indies.
January 18, 2026

Alfred Dawes | University Hospital of the West Indies needs an overhaul

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) stands as a beacon of healthcare and medical education for the Caribbean. Yet, a recent performance audit by the Auditor General’s Department has…
January 18, 2026

Dennis Minott | Wealth’s pretence and the academy’s duty

There are moments in history when a civilisation does not collapse noisily but drifts — slowly, comfortably — away from its moral bearings. We may be living through such a moment now. Wealth, greased…