In Focus
December 9, 2025
Patricia Green | Why is Jamaica celebrating pirates?
What is there to celebrate about pirates that Kingston would be allowed to designate an entire week for this? Historians describe a pirate as the lowest grade of seafaring robbers, the scourge of the…
December 9, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | The fall of Peter Mandelson
The 71-year old Peter Mandelson was recently fired as Britain’s Ambassador to the United States (US) amidst more revelations of his close ties with American financier and convicted sex offender,…
December 9, 2025
A.J. Nicholson | Fresh start advocated, Prime Minister
Prime Minister Holness’ decade-long silence concerning access to final justice ended in a pre-election debate in answering a question on Jamaica transitioning from the Privy Council to the Caribbean…
December 9, 2025
Dennis Minott | From mixed nuts to enlightened nation builders
In virtually every Caribbean household there is a tin or bag of mixed nuts, often presented to visitors at Christmas or stashed away for special occasions. The contents are never uniform. Some nuts…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | This has happened before
“Andrew gwine lose him seat,” she said to me. It was September 3, election night, and many were nervous as would be expected. Count me among them. “No, pretty girl,” I said. “It’s just an imbalance of…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Vazland breached!
Post election, the loudest public kerfuffle surrounded the query “how cum ‘Action Ann’ lose to ‘Little Youth’ in East Portland?” I was among those pre-election pundits who carelessly placed Portland…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | PNP on shaky ground
By way of YouTube, last week I heard a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) intellectual and pragmatist refer to the fullness of the JLP as ‘governmental ‘ administration instead of ‘ruling’ administration as I…
December 9, 2025
Patrick Robinson | Need for a body of counsellors
Elaine Thompson-Herah of Banana Ground, Manchester, Jamaica is arguably the greatest female sprinter the world has ever seen. For the purpose of the analysis below, I am excluding the records held by…
December 9, 2025
Richard Amenyah | Case for making the Caribbean’s HIV response sustainable
When the Caribbean mounted its bold response to HIV in the 1990s and early 2000s, it did so with the heavy backing of external donors. Through shared responsibility and global solidarity, the World…