In Focus
27 Sep, 2026
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Ludrick Morris | Death on hire purchase... and the children are paying the down payment
Jamaica is taking out a loan against the health of its children. The down payment is being made now, in childhood overweight and obesity, rising blood pressure, disturbed blood sugar, fatty liver…
27 Sep, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Government by giveaways
In a brilliant move, PNP took its annual show on the road to Westmoreland. Apart from obvious political gimmickry, this was a salutary message of support to those most affected by Melissa as well as a…
27 Sep, 2026
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Alicia Herbert | One year in Jamaica: What this island has taught me
A year ago, I arrived in Jamaica to take up one of the greatest privileges of my career, serving as British high commissioner. Like anyone beginning a new chapter, I arrived with plenty to learn. I…
27 Sep, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Young Seiveright on the move again
Delano Seiveright is not a man who relishes the idea of sitting down and waiting for things to happen. From the get-go, he has been an action man, and once he became elected to a constituency that at…
27 Sep, 2026
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Dennis A. Minott | Arithmetic of Jamaica’s energy autonomy by 2031
For more than half a century, I have worked in and around renewable energy, hydroelectricity, biomass, and solar, examining how Jamaica could use its own water regimes, sunshine, agricultural…
27 Sep, 2026
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Kay Osborne | US court rejected TCN policy, Jamaica should share the MOU now
When any government signs an agreement, the people have a right to know what it says. That right is even stronger when the arrangement runs into serious legal obstacles in the partner country.
20 Sep, 2026
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Mickel Jackson | When Parliament sentences instead of the judge
Illegal firearms remain the principal instrument of murder, robbery and intimidation. That is not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether a 15-year mandatory minimum, applied indiscriminately to…
20 Sep, 2026
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Trevor Hamilton | Myths about the Jamaican education policy imperatives
The newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), in her annual address to educators, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the sector, used Singapore as a benchmark…
20 Sep, 2026
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Peta-Gay Ferguson | If you want to talk about Jamaica, let us talk
It appears that Senator Abka Fitz-Henley has developed a penchant for cutting and pasting the same tired sermon of his opinion of the People’s National Party (PNP). Having apparently run out of…