In Focus
20 Sep, 2026
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Mickel Jackson | When Parliament sentences instead of the judge
Illegal firearms remain the principal instrument of murder, robbery and intimidation. That is not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether a 15-year mandatory minimum, applied indiscriminately to…
20 Sep, 2026
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Trevor Hamilton | Myths about the Jamaican education policy imperatives
The newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), in her annual address to educators, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the sector, used Singapore as a benchmark…
20 Sep, 2026
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Peta-Gay Ferguson | If you want to talk about Jamaica, let us talk
It appears that Senator Abka Fitz-Henley has developed a penchant for cutting and pasting the same tired sermon of his opinion of the People’s National Party (PNP). Having apparently run out of…
20 Sep, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Still giving Dr Holness a chance
Some politicians attain the status of ‘sacred cow’ for the majority of their lives. Michael Manley was one such human being. It helps to be good-looking. It first manifests itself by many women…
20 Sep, 2026
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Imani Tafari-Ama | Reparations, sovereignty and the politics of justice
Aren’t you tired of dealing with successive government administrations that do not get it? Aren’t you fed up with the utter fraud of continuing to bow to the King of England as Jamaica’s head of state…
20 Sep, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | It’s a miseducation emergency
So, debate on Jamaica’s education is the latest piece of evidence supporting the conclusion JLP and PNP are about as different as six and half-a-dozen.
20 Sep, 2026
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Dennis A. Minott | A needed legal doctrine for Delanifying Bartlettities
There are moments when a country needs more than another regulation, another commission, or another press conference. It needs a doctrine. Jamaica may now need one called the Doctrine of…
13 Sep, 2026
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Donna Parchment Brown | Hurt people, blue tarpaulins and broken businesses
Hurricanes Beryl and Melissa have given us an opportunity to do some new things and to do some old things in a new way. St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover, St James, Trelawny, and other affected…
13 Sep, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Serves them right!
Jamaica’s allegedly sovereign Government crossed the Atlantic, cap in hand, to beg (oops, sorry, “petition”) our enslavers’ King for slavery reparations. Have we no shame? Are we so accustomed to…