In Focus
04 Oct, 2026
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Dennis A. Minott | Towards a tourism wealth inwards retention ratio
Few people know that my late wife, Sandy, and I once owned and operated, 100 per cent, the hotel business at Bonnie View in Port Antonio. We failed. Failure is a stern tutor. Ours sent me, somewhat…
04 Oct, 2026
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Mark Wignall | The link between crime and a fortune is real
The immediate link between that is to ask the dead. It is they who say who know all. We know, of course, who the pretenders are. The real big hitters tend to make stuff, even though Elon Musk has had…
04 Oct, 2026
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Christopher Tufton | Consumers have shifted their spending
Last week’s headline that a major Jamaican manufacturer would place 141 workers on a three-week rotating lay-off, with the new tax on sweetened beverages among the reasons given, has prompted a great…
27 Sep, 2026
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Ludrick Morris | Death on hire purchase... and the children are paying the down payment
Jamaica is taking out a loan against the health of its children. The down payment is being made now, in childhood overweight and obesity, rising blood pressure, disturbed blood sugar, fatty liver…
27 Sep, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Government by giveaways
In a brilliant move, PNP took its annual show on the road to Westmoreland. Apart from obvious political gimmickry, this was a salutary message of support to those most affected by Melissa as well as a…
27 Sep, 2026
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Alicia Herbert | One year in Jamaica: What this island has taught me
A year ago, I arrived in Jamaica to take up one of the greatest privileges of my career, serving as British high commissioner. Like anyone beginning a new chapter, I arrived with plenty to learn. I…
27 Sep, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Young Seiveright on the move again
Delano Seiveright is not a man who relishes the idea of sitting down and waiting for things to happen. From the get-go, he has been an action man, and once he became elected to a constituency that at…
27 Sep, 2026
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Dennis A. Minott | Arithmetic of Jamaica’s energy autonomy by 2031
For more than half a century, I have worked in and around renewable energy, hydroelectricity, biomass, and solar, examining how Jamaica could use its own water regimes, sunshine, agricultural…
27 Sep, 2026
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Kay Osborne | US court rejected TCN policy, Jamaica should share the MOU now
When any government signs an agreement, the people have a right to know what it says. That right is even stronger when the arrangement runs into serious legal obstacles in the partner country.