In Focus
December 9, 2025
Alberto Pacheco Capella | The Caribbean Sea’s new compact for survival
October 24 marked United Nations Day, our 80th anniversary under the theme The Future We Want: The UN We Need: Reaffirming Our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism. It is a moment not only to…
December 9, 2025
Ludrick Morris | Why paediatricians back Jamaica’s School Nutrition Policy
Ten-year-old Shanelle collapsed during her school’s sports day. Teachers first thought it was dehydration, but at the hospital she was found to be in a hypertensive crisis – an illness rarely seen in…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Always market me!
There has been much public discussion, most of it uninformed, about a recent report from Integrity Commission’s (IC’s) Director of Investigation (DI). IC began by recording what it investigated: “DI…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…