In Focus

May 31, 2026

Christian Tavares-Finson | Confronting crime, police-citizen interactions and due process

Jamaica is at a defining moment in its fight against crime.Across this country, there are questions in the minds of many. What if it’s me? What if it’s my family. Will I be safe? Will I be mistaken for a criminal? Will I be judged in a moment that I cannot control? hese are genuine fears and concerns felt by many. They deserve to be acknowledged, and more importantly, they deserve clear answers. 

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May 31, 2026

Sabrina Barnes | Beyond sisterhood: Hypocrisy, power, and politics 
The conversation about women in politics is often framed through a simplistic lens: women should support women at all costs. Yet reality is far more complicated. The same societies that criticise men…
May 31, 2026

Mark Shields | Stop reinventing the wheel, start issuing tickets
Latoya Bulgin is dead. Her body was handled by the men sworn to protect her with a callousness that shocked the nation. Days later, Prime Minister Andrew Holness stood before the 91st Staff and Junior…
May 31, 2026

Dennis Minott | The Hanta death of accountability in modern Jamaica – Part Two
Compounding the cultural and structural paralysis is a palpable fear of institutional destabilisation. Many judges in fragile democracies harbour an acute anxiety of appearing ‘too activist’. They…
May 31, 2026

Mark Wignall | Democracy in crutches
A parliamentary democracy is a sham arrangement where one man one vote is so magnified as if it can turn water into wine. The promises are usually empty and generationally embarrassing.   Let's…
May 31, 2026

Christopher Tufton | Without malice or protest
Small states must look to the South for health human capital support  As the world turns so are the uncertainties of small island states who are trying to determine what next for the treatment of…
May 24, 2026

Kimberly Stewart | Whose job is it to fix the spending gap for children? 
Blame is not a useful response to a structural problem. A problem is structural when it is built into the rules, the incentives, and the institutional design of a system; it persists regardless of who…
May 24, 2026

Gordon Robinson | Ain’t it wondrous?
So Chris Tufton’s Review Committee appointed to do UHWI’s Board’s work has submitted its report. The Committee was asked to: Review and identify gaps and/or weaknesses in UHWI’s Corporate Governance…
May 24, 2026

Donna Scott-Mottley | A united CARICOM is a necessity
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools,” said Martin Luther King Jr. It is a truth that speaks directly to the Caribbean today. Geography alone is not enough to define…
May 24, 2026

Matthew Smith, Matthew Stallard and Frankie Chappell | Narrating stories of the enslaved people of Jamaica
For 200 years, the most extensive records of pre-Emancipation Jamaicans have sat in London – originally in the old Public Record Office at Kew and now in The National Archives, UK. These Registers…