In Focus
02 Oct, 2025
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Mark Wignall | That questionable Farquharson killing
Most uptown people whose penthouses shield them from violent encounters with the police usually don’t care too much about another policeman’s bullet taking the life of an everyday citizen. Just as…
02 Oct, 2025
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Jalil Dabdoub | Absent and accountable: Jamaica, genocide, and the lie of neutrality
Jamaica once stood tall in the international arena – with a proud, principled advocacy for the oppressed and international law. But at the last UNGA, that legacy was abandoned. On the resolution…
02 Oct, 2025
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Adekeye Adebajo | The King’s speech: Trump at the UN
American president, Donald Trump’s recent extraordinary speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, once again demonstrated his monarchical delusions, as he haughtily proclaimed to…
26 Sep, 2025
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Jalil Dabdoub | Cabinet bloat and the crisis of entitlement
The recent Cabinet appointments, along with the insolent walkout by veteran member of parliament (MP) Everald Warmington, apparently in protest to his omission from same, expose the entitlement and…
26 Sep, 2025
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Dennis Minott | Harmful buffoonery
Behind the neat rows of school timetables lies harmful buffoonery, where pools-timetabling locks children’s dreams into cages and wastes national talent.
26 Sep, 2025
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Imani Tafari-Ama | Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
Multiple thoughts must have swirled around in Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness‘ mind as he took the oath of office for the fourth time in his elongated political career. Did it occur to him in those…
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26 Sep, 2025
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Garth Minott | A budget is a moral document
Budgets are moral documents. This is the title of an article by Catholic priest Fr. Travis Russell. A criminal justice policy advisor for the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology in the…
26 Sep, 2025
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Mark Wignall | When democracy slips away
The present White House led by Donald Trump is devouring democracy and doing it with glee and much haste. Here in Jamaica we gave it our special birth, our special nurturing and when it veered off…
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26 Sep, 2025
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Gordon Robinson | Change is in the air
At 20 Belmont Road and a stone’s throw (well, maybe two throws) away, at 89 Old Hope Road, winds of change are blowing. JLP’s focus on change was signalled by dissolution of an ill-advised Legal and…