In Focus
22 Feb, 2026
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Jalil Dabdboub | Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” sang Kris Kristofferson. In conflict zones from Palestine to Sudan and the Congo, these words are a lived reality. When a people are…
22 Feb, 2026
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Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | NEPA doesn’t have an image problem, but performance problem
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET), along with other environmental advocates, was invited by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) to attend a focus group meeting on January 27. The…
22 Feb, 2026
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Dennis Minott | Study first: Navigating America’s campus culture wars
This year, hundreds of Caribbean students will board flights to the United States with scholarships secured, visas stamped, ambitions sharpened. They will go to study engineering, medicine, physics,…
22 Feb, 2026
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Mark Wignall | A smile, a giggle, the cruelty
“The Trump administration is deliberately plunging Cuba into a national and humanitarian crisis, and the US-imposed blockade of oil imports is wreaking havoc on daily life for Cubans,” was the general…
15 Feb, 2026
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Dennis Minott | Leaders that despise accountability harm people
In the months following Hurricane Melissa, one word has echoed across Jamaica: accountability. It is spoken in taxis, at cookshops, on talk radio, in staff rooms, and in the corridors of Parliament.…
15 Feb, 2026
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Mark Shields | How Jamaica transformed the investigation of serious crime
The recent announcement by the Jamaica Constabulary Force of the creation of a Specialised Investigation Branch (SIB) is more than a routine organisational change. It represents the latest step in a…
15 Feb, 2026
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Qu Dongyu | As glaciers melt, world’s hidden water banks are at risk
Glaciers – the world’s hidden water banks - are a source of life for billions. The seasonal melt from mountains and glaciers sustains some of the world’s most important rivers such as the Indus, the…
15 Feb, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Cover up by legislation?
The latest affront to Constitutional governance was conducted in the Senate on Friday February 6 when a proposed Bill to amend the Financial Investigation Division Act (FIDA) was passed into law. The…
15 Feb, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Transformation in patient care needed now
The doctor wears on her sleeves her need to see and experience the sort of cultural transformation needed at the The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) “... it [UHWI] must remain steadfast…