In Focus
December 14, 2025
Mark Wignall | Connected at 185 miles per hour
In 2019, as Hurricane Dorian literally sat on Abaco in The Bahamas (between 27 and 36 hours) and achieved a consistent 185mph, none could know that it was sending a message to Jamaica about the…
December 14, 2025
Angela Brown Burke | Sister P at 80
If you travel far enough into St Catherine, past the bustle and the quick talk of the capital, you’ll find Wood Hall. It’s a quiet place, the kind of community where yards feel like open hands and…
December 9, 2025
Debbie-Ann Gordon | Westmoreland: At the epicentre of Hurricane Melissa’s wrath
With winds stronger than those required for Category 5 designation, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in New Hope, Westmoreland, on October 28. Forecasts pointed to eastern Westmoreland and western St…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | A very private public service
So, after the fact, Jamaica learned that Government decided to take US$150 MILLION of our money out of the Consolidated Fund to “lend” to JPS. Let’s try to contextualize. First and foremost this…
December 9, 2025
Imani Tafari-Ama | Making of an enemy
When the president of the United States (US) announced that he was closing the airspace of Venezuela, I got the proverbial whiplash. With intense war threats a daily occurrence, this kind of…
December 9, 2025
Sophia Frazer-Binns | The interconnected crisis
The quote by John Muir ‘When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.’ or by Chief Seattle, that “All things are bound together. All things connect”, is in…
December 9, 2025
Omar Sweeney | Impact of global warming on Small Island Developing States
Climate change is a pressing global issue, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Jamaica are among the most vulnerable to its devastating impacts. At the start of the 19th century, the human…
December 9, 2025
Neil Richards | Stop taking over farmlands to develop housing solutions
Neither Government nor private developers should continue taking over Jamaica’s good farmlands with either simple or sophisticated housing schemes. The use of highly productive agricultural lands for…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | Some are mad but don’t know it
I have never been to a psychiatrist in my life but, once, way back when my wife ditched me, I wanted to head east, knock on that big gate, and volunteer my mental insides to the skilled professionals…