In Focus

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…
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 26.
December 9, 2025

Jalil Dabdoub | Absent and accountable: Jamaica, genocide, and the lie of neutrality

Jamaica once stood tall in the international arena – with a proud, principled advocacy for the oppressed and international law. But at the last UNGA, that legacy was abandoned. On the resolution…
President Donald Trump addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters.
December 9, 2025

Adekeye Adebajo | The King’s speech: Trump at the UN

American president, Donald Trump’s recent extraordinary speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, once again demonstrated his monarchical delusions, as he haughtily proclaimed to…
The prime minister and members of his cabinet pose for a photo: In front row (from left) are: Desmond McKenzie; Dr. Horace Chang; Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness; Olivia Grange; Robert Montague. Second row: Daryl Vaz; Pearnel Charles Jr; Audrey Marks; Dan
December 9, 2025

Jalil Dabdoub | Cabinet bloat and the crisis of entitlement

The recent Cabinet appointments, along with the insolent walkout by veteran member of parliament (MP) Everald Warmington, apparently in protest to his omission from same, expose the entitlement and…
Dennis Minott
December 9, 2025

Dennis Minott | Harmful buffoonery

Behind the neat rows of school timetables lies harmful buffoonery, where pools-timetabling locks children’s dreams into cages and wastes national talent.
Members of parliament of the Jamaica Labour Party, led by Dr Andrew Holness arrive for the swearing-in ceremony at Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Imani Tafari-Ama | Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown

Multiple thoughts must have swirled around in Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness‘ mind as he took the oath of office for the fourth time in his elongated political career. Did it occur to him in those…
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December 9, 2025

Garth Minott | A budget is a moral document

Budgets are moral documents. This is the title of an article by Catholic priest Fr. Travis Russell. A criminal justice policy advisor for the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology in the…
Members of Parliament before being swore at the swearing-in ceremony for members of the upper and lower houses of Parliament held on September 18, 2025 in Gordon House.
December 9, 2025

Mark Wignall | When democracy slips away

The present White House led by Donald Trump is devouring democracy and doing it with glee and much haste. Here in Jamaica we gave it our special birth, our special nurturing and when it veered off…