In Focus
01 Nov, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Love thy neighbour
I’ve repeatedly written that God issued no “Commandments” properly-so-called to Moses or anyone else. Not even the Old Testament, whose reliance on hellfire and brimstone is notorious, uses that word…
25 Oct, 2026
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Mickel Jackson | Why command responsibility matters
Between 1982 and 2025, four hundred and seventeen members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were killed. Some died in the line of duty. Others were killed because they were members of the force. The…
25 Oct, 2026
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Fabio Barbosa dos Santos and Doreen Gordon | Brazil’s elections: What is at stake for the Caribbean and beyond
A significant electoral race is taking place in Brazil between Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro (currently under house arrest for his role in a 2022 coup attempt), and…
25 Oct, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Jamaica’s governance in mortal danger
Last Sunday’s analysis of NaRRA’s purpose generated more than usual amount of feedback. A Jamaican/American/German Attorney, born and nurtured here but migrated in 1977 and runs a Florida family law…
25 Oct, 2026
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Moya Rhoe-Craigg | From school health survey to action
The 2026 Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) has uncovered that among Jamaican children aged 13 to 17 years, the prevalence of overweight has risen significantly from 23.3 per cent in…
25 Oct, 2026
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Patricia Green | Building resilient should entail preserving heritage architecture
The hurricane season returns to the Atlantic every year, from June till November, and Jamaica has been shaped by it for centuries, as the first anniversary of Hurricane Melissa approaches. Two…
25 Oct, 2026
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Steven Golding | Karmic debt of Maafa and curse of reparations plaguing the British Government
Maafa is a Kiswahili term meaning “Great Disaster”. It is used by Pan-Africanists today to refer to the “African Holocaust”, which defines the centuries of horrific suffering, systemic destruction,…
18 Oct, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Why so expensive paper pushers?
So National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) has started with neither bang nor whimper but a loud, smelly belch. Or has it? Started I mean? I ask because the 40-million-dollar man…
18 Oct, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Shelly-Ann taught us well
In watching Shelly-Ann Fraser (Pocket Rocket) give freely of her excess of naivety at her first big outing in 2008, she seemingly asks herself, as we gaze at her totality and glimpse back at her…