In Focus
30 Oct, 2025
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Mark Wignall | When tears are not enough
I can best express my pain by using the first words that come to me. And of course, it’s all about the destruction left behind by the passage of the monster hurricane, Melissa. The first words, quite…
30 Oct, 2025
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Africka Stephens | Resilience is the real headline ... not that children were hiding in tunnels
When Hurricane Melissa loomed over Jamaica, international journalists rushed to report what many framed as impending devastation. Likewise, many observers, regionally and internationally, rushed to…
30 Oct, 2025
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Don Anderson | Windies cricket: Infrastructure a new word for application
As a loyal West Indies cricket fan who stays up day and night to watch our games wherever they are played, I am, like many others, very distressed to find us near or at the bottom rung of the…
30 Oct, 2025
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Imani Tafari-Ama | Surviving the trauma of Hurricane Melissa
The lone woman sitting on the evacuation bus travelling from Port Royal to a designated shelter was an explicit essay. Most residents refused to leave their homes to travel to the public facilities. …
24 Oct, 2025
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Gordon Robinson | We were complicit!
There’s turmoil in Caribbean waters not caused by Melissa. CNN: “US military has been steadily massing a large number of troops, naval and air assets in the Caribbean over the last two months,…
23 Oct, 2025
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Densil Williams | Unravelling growth: productivity in the digital age
Bad policy choices are not the only factor responsible for high and sustained levels of economic growth to elude Jamaica. There are structural defects in the economy as well. For high levels of…
23 Oct, 2025
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Mark Wignall | Dr Tufton, surely there is more
The Gleaner of October 8 spelled it out clearly: “IC: Tufton’s ‘indirect’ influence led to $80m in contracts to friend’s firm.” According to The Director of Investigation one would conclude that there…
23 Oct, 2025
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Curtis Ward | Sanctions — Coercive or to punish?
In recent months, we have not focused on US sanctions against Trump administration adversaries. Yet we have seen that the administration’s use of sanctions is widespread, and, in many cases, more…
23 Oct, 2025
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María Villarreal | COP30: Time to act for the defenders of the planet
Latin America faces one of its deepest contradictions: it is the most dangerous region in the world for those who defend the environment, yet it is also the birthplace of the first international…