In Focus
20 Sep, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Still giving Dr Holness a chance
Some politicians attain the status of ‘sacred cow’ for the majority of their lives. Michael Manley was one such human being. It helps to be good-looking. It first manifests itself by many women…
20 Sep, 2026
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Imani Tafari-Ama | Reparations, sovereignty and the politics of justice
Aren’t you tired of dealing with successive government administrations that do not get it? Aren’t you fed up with the utter fraud of continuing to bow to the King of England as Jamaica’s head of state…
20 Sep, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | It’s a miseducation emergency
So, debate on Jamaica’s education is the latest piece of evidence supporting the conclusion JLP and PNP are about as different as six and half-a-dozen.
20 Sep, 2026
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Dennis A. Minott | A needed legal doctrine for Delanifying Bartlettities
There are moments when a country needs more than another regulation, another commission, or another press conference. It needs a doctrine. Jamaica may now need one called the Doctrine of…
13 Sep, 2026
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Donna Parchment Brown | Hurt people, blue tarpaulins and broken businesses
Hurricanes Beryl and Melissa have given us an opportunity to do some new things and to do some old things in a new way. St Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover, St James, Trelawny, and other affected…
13 Sep, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | Serves them right!
Jamaica’s allegedly sovereign Government crossed the Atlantic, cap in hand, to beg (oops, sorry, “petition”) our enslavers’ King for slavery reparations. Have we no shame? Are we so accustomed to…
13 Sep, 2026
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Dennis A Minott | From the Rupununi chaparro to the reef
A beach can remain public on paper while becoming privately unavailable in practice. Put up a gate, station a guard along the approach road, leave access unmarked, or make the route so awkward that…
13 Sep, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Dream on, reparations on the way
At one end, we have the black nationalist who believes that he’ll never be black enough to attain his real value. At the other end are those who believe that the white Europeans were the most…
13 Sep, 2026
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Abka Fitz-Henley | Has an anti-Jamaica culture overtaken the PNP?
A series of actions, along with instances of convenient inaction, have provided enough evidence to concern well-thinking citizens of our beloved island that the Opposition People’s National Party…