In Focus

January 18, 2026

Dennis Minott | Wealth’s pretence and the academy’s duty

There are moments in history when a civilisation does not collapse noisily but drifts — slowly, comfortably — away from its moral bearings. We may be living through such a moment now. Wealth, greased…
File Body-worn cameras on display at the Police Commissioner’s Office in St Andrew.
January 18, 2026

Aubrey Stewart | Body-worn cameras record violence, they do not prevent it

As Jamaica intensifies its crackdown on crime, confrontations between the police and criminal suspects have become more frequent. These encounters, often unfolding in high-risk and highly visible…
Gordon Robinson writes: Based on Jamaica’s history and current reality, is there another way to reduce murders than police targeting and killing suspected murderers after being “challenged”?
January 18, 2026

Gordon Robinson | What the hell the police can do?

There has been much squabbling over the sharp reduction in murders reported by the police for 2025. The final number, 673, is the lowest in 30 years which, on the face of it, should be universally…
January 18, 2026

Mark Wignall | Pain, aches, and persistent coughs

I was 22 years old and still living with my parents. It was a terrible Sunday afternoon. I had come home with aches in just about muscle group. At the arrival in the doctor’s office, the pain…
In this October 2025 photo a cordon is seen along Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew following a fatal police shooting.
January 11, 2026

Mickel Jackson | Jamaica’s historic crime reduction amid security forces killing surge

As we enter 2026, Jamaica confronts a stark paradox. In 2025, the nation achieved a historic breakthrough: murders fell to a provisional 673, the lowest annual total in over three decades and a…
Palestinians inspect the damage at a displacement camp following an Israeli strike in Gaza City.
January 11, 2026

Jalil Dabdoub | The goat, sheep, and the world order – The fall of principle

Bruce Golding’s recent article in the Jamaica Observer, titled ‘Things fall apart’ in almost every respect, is a truthful and courageous reckoning with the collapse of the post-WWII rules-based…
An unused oil pump jack in Cabimas, Venezuela.
January 11, 2026

Gordon Robinson | It’s all about the money!

So, USA foreign policy results in an invasion of Venezuela to capture an alleged drug trafficker/“narco-terrorist” who also happens to be President. Why? How come this is how you “arrest” Nicolas…
Residents look at a damaged apartment complex that neighbours say was hit during US strikes to capture Nicolás Maduro, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela.
January 11, 2026

Mark Wignall | Fundamentally evil

At his core, the US president swims in a huge void.One of the great Trump policy directions is one of non-intervention, that is, no armed intervention. That, I believe, was his intention until a…
A government supporter holds an image of President Nicolás Maduro during a women’s march to demand his return in Caracas, Venezuela.
January 11, 2026

Imani Tafari-Ama | Return of 21st century piracy?

For those who believed that the age of imperial adventurism and piracy was confined to the history books — age-old memories of the Barbary Coast or the scramble for Africa — the events unfolding in…