In Focus
January 4, 2026
Ethon Lowe | God, Hurricane Melissa and same-sex couples
In my customary perusal of the Sunday Gleaner, December 7, two interesting articles caught my eye. The first questioned God’s purpose following Melissa’s untimely destruction of a country, which I…
December 28, 2025
Floyd Morris | Integrate accessibility and inclusion for more resilient post-Melissa Jamaica
Jamaica has agreed to a number of international agreements that bind it to providing an accessible and inclusive environment for persons with disabilities. The United Nations Convention on the Rights…
December 28, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Make a change
Despite most of us having no clue where the time went it seems another new year is upon us. The thing about time is that it not only flies but changes direction, fortunes and perspectives while doing…
December 28, 2025
Dennis Minott | When self-interest is sacrificed
Jamaica’s prolonged mistreatment of Haitian migrants is often defended in the language of capacity, sovereignty, or political realism. Yet five years on — and now brutally exposed by Hurricane Melissa…
December 28, 2025
Sandra Latibeaudiere | Hurricane Melissa exposes vulnerable older adults
Hurricane Melissa’s vastly different human and infrastructural impact between eastern and western Jamaica has continued into the early recovery stages. There is another, far less obvious, disaster…
December 28, 2025
Patricia Green | Hurricane Melissa architecture and land decolonisation
“… I will uncover your skirts over your face, That your shame may appear …” was spoken by God to the prophet Jeremiah about ancient Israel. Is this exposure applicable to post-disaster Jamaica?…
December 28, 2025
Mark Wignall | Present me with real honour
In many ways, it has to be more than just what you feel about me and significantly deeper than that. It has to be much more than that. I want to feel an intense connection. Closer than it could ever…
December 21, 2025
Stephen Vasciannie | Assessing Accompong assertions
The Maroons are a distinct but divided people. Some Maroons find their national identity through full membership of Jamaican society as Jamaican nationals, engaging in Jamaican cultural life, sharing…
December 21, 2025
Mark Wignall | What a nerve!
This comes with the most bold-faced audacity; The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) claiming seven per cent increase in electricity rates. What makes this so jarring to the nerves is what went down before.…