In Focus
28 Jun, 2026
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Imani Tafari-Ama | More questions than answers
With little prior public discussion, Dr Horace Chang, minister of national security and peace (and deputy prime minister), announced that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) had been signed between…
21 Jun, 2026
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Dennis A. Minott | The June 5 blackout and Jamaica’s nuclear mirage
The electrical grid, let alone a nuclear power plant, does not respond to speeches. It responds to engineering, operational discipline, competent technicians, and systems that perform reliably around…
21 Jun, 2026
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Ruthlyn James | The illiterate engineer
Many successful Jamaican men live among us with a hidden shame. Some build houses, repair engines, wire communities, and raise families out of poverty through talent, innovation, sacrifice, and strong…
21 Jun, 2026
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Simon Black, Elaine Duncan, Shirley Pryce | Domestic workers deserve dignity and respect
Countries around the globe are facing care crises, a dire situation of growing gaps between care needs and societies’ capacities to meet these needs. Jamaica is no exception: from underinvestment in…
21 Jun, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Answers on the power cut
Last week, the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz spent a few days docked in Jamaican waters.
If a situation ever arose that while the carrier was on its way to Kingston Harbour, our local diplomatic…
14 Jun, 2026
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Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie and Diana McCaulay | Reclaiming Jamaica’s coastline
Most Jamaicans today probably cannot remember a time when they could simply go to the beach without paying to enter. Over the decades, many of Jamaica’s best beaches and coastal areas have been…
14 Jun, 2026
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Jalil Dabdoub | Constitutional reform held hostage by political immaturity
Jamaica's constitutional reform is again at risk of becoming another casualty of partisan politics. What should be a defining moment in our democratic evolution has now become an exercise in…
14 Jun, 2026
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Dennis A. Minott | Extracting signals from noise
More than fifty years ago, I wrote a chapter in my doctoral thesis with a disarmingly simple title: “Noise”.
I was then a young OAS Research Fellow, trained in physics and mathematics, working…