In Focus
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.
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.