In Focus
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…
13 Sep, 2026
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Dennis A Minott | From the Rupununi chaparro to the reef
A beach can remain public on paper while becoming privately unavailable in practice. Put up a gate, station a guard along the approach road, leave access unmarked, or make the route so awkward that…
13 Sep, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Dream on, reparations on the way
At one end, we have the black nationalist who believes that he’ll never be black enough to attain his real value. At the other end are those who believe that the white Europeans were the most…
13 Sep, 2026
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Abka Fitz-Henley | Has an anti-Jamaica culture overtaken the PNP?
A series of actions, along with instances of convenient inaction, have provided enough evidence to concern well-thinking citizens of our beloved island that the Opposition People’s National Party…
13 Sep, 2026
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Damion Crawford | Crisis in the classroom
The Ministry of Education’s glossy Trend brochure is a masterclass in public-relations gymnastics, not an honest assessment of our education system. By emphasising percentages based largely on…
13 Sep, 2026
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Canute Thompson | Global higher education landscape: Challenges and opportunities
The future of higher education, and universities in particular, faces substantial challenges. In the United Kingdom, about 50 universities face the risk of closure in the next few years, and half are…
13 Sep, 2026
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Huntley Medley | Global food prices are the biggest inflation threat
When world prices make the news, the story is almost always about oil. However, a new working paper by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) suggests that persons may have been watching the wrong barrel. The…