In Focus

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
December 9, 2025

Adekeye Adebajo | The comeuppance of Nicolas Sarkozy

The recent conviction of 70-year old former French president (2007-2012), Nicolas Sarkozy, for criminal conspiracy and “corruption at the highest level”, marked the final humiliation of a rabidly…
Gleaner editorial writes: But the [NaRRA] bill has serious problems. While it gets the mission broadly right, it does not yet meet the criteria public bodies in Jamaica actually need to be successful.
December 9, 2025

Shinique Walters | Role of the MP in nation-building

The 2025 general election spotlight was turned to Eastern Portland and the surprising defeat of Ann Marie Vaz. Despite her highly publicised community intervention, most notably road repairs and other…
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
December 9, 2025

David Salmon | Pragmatic foreign policy is not moral bankruptcy

A new sport has emerged among commentators where each battles to see who can repeat trite comparisons between Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness and Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley. Sometimes this…
A man fishes in Cocorite, Trinidad and Tobago.
December 9, 2025

Curtis Ward | Implications of US military operations in the southern Caribbean

At the time of writing this article, US military strikes blew up five small boats in the southern Caribbean Sea between Venezuela and Trinidad and killed nearly 30 people. No evidence has been offered…
In this 2021 photo a woman is seen arguing with others over the allocation of yellow split peas after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
December 9, 2025

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The existence of hunger is a political choice

In 2024, the wealthiest nations helped drive the largest surge in military spending since the end of the Cold War, reaching US$2.7 trillion that year. Yet, they failed to deliver on their own…
President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office at the White House.
December 9, 2025

Mark Wignall | Do you know that politician?

Unless he was socially premature and thus not fully formed at the beginning, just about every politician is made with two essential major parts. The first is the need to rev the ego while on…
Homer Davis
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Pack your bags and go!

If you didn’t know that Jamaican governance is fatally flawed, last week’s spat between former and current MPs in St James Southern ensured you know now.
Fort Charles at Port Royal.
December 9, 2025

Dennis Minott | Pulverising romance of Port Royal and plunder

There is an unsettling ease with which Jamaica is now being asked to clap for pirates. Port Royal has gained the glitter of UNESCO inscription and, in the heady rush to monetise heritage, marketers…
Gordon Robinson writes: Based on Jamaica’s history and current reality, is there another way to reduce murders than police targeting and killing suspected murderers after being “challenged”?
December 9, 2025

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…