In Focus

Tourists travel in a classic American car next to a line of drivers waiting to buy fuel for their cars in Havana, Cuba.
February 22, 2026

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…
February 15, 2026

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.…
In this file photo JCF personnel are seen checking documents during a spot check.
February 15, 2026

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…
This satellite image provided by NASA, shows icebergs that formed through an ice shelf collapse. Dozens of Antarctica’s ice shelves, floating extensions of glaciers, showed significant shrinking between 1997 and 2021.
February 15, 2026

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…
This February 10 photo shows sitting of the house of representatives.
February 15, 2026

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…
University Hospital of the West Indies
February 15, 2026

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…
In this 2019 photo dancers are seen performing at the Grand Gala celebrations.
February 15, 2026

Sabrina Barnes | Cultural retention in Jamaica

There is an uncomfortable habit in Jamaica: we mourn loudly, memorialise briefly, and then move on until the next cultural giant dies. Each passing reignites the same questions about legacy,…
Newly elected members of parliament at their swearing-in at Gordon House.
February 8, 2026

Jalil Dabdoub | ‘Joke ting’ governance

Jamaica has a governance problem that cannot be ignored. The State repeatedly passes laws without first constructing the legal, institutional, physical and constitutional infrastructure necessary to…
February 8, 2026

Gordon Robinson | We are not serious

Three Sundays ago ( What the hell the Police can do) I took a swipe at our justice system. I wrote: “Supreme Court publishes general clearance rates (56 per cent in 2025) but no statistics regarding…