In Focus

This file photo shows mangled structures destroyed by Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.
04 Apr, 2026 0

Mark Wignall | Dangerous whirlpool

Whatever else it is, whichever thought you had on your mind; the fact is the Middle East war has impacted the world. Stay with me. A gaze out on the international horizon and you will see that oil…
FILE - A man photographs a maquette of a statue, at City Hall, London, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.
04 Apr, 2026 0

Imani Tafari-Ama | Reparations without resolve

On March 25, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted to recognise transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity”. Enslavement is also called ‘Maafa’, Swahili for total…
Residents gather amid debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa on a street in Black River, Jamaica, on October 30, 2025.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Kishan Khoday and Stuart Davies | New calculus of development

The development landscape is undergoing significant upheaval. Changes in the global economy, debt and cost-of-living pressures, fragility in multilateralism, declining aid, the risks and opportunities…
Ronald Thwaites writes: We are a follow-fashion people, and the model put before our children and all of us is that the supreme objective of life is to have my way and gain my advantage whoever else have to get jook.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Julian Robinson | We can’t tax our way out of a slowdown

At a time when Jamaicans are still rebuilding their lives, this budget asks them to carry more. That, ultimately, is the issue. Not whether the Government needs revenue. Not whether the fiscal…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, in Washington, DC. With him are Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Mark Wignall | Worst man for the job

It would be just about the worst scenario possible if, 12 months from now, the heated conflict in the Middle East has taken on volcanic proportions. In which case, its new name would have to include…
Some of the Cuban medical professionals and their families, hosted by Osmond Brown and his wife Karen, at farewell party in Kingston.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Dennis Minott | Jamaica forsakes faithful healers to flatter power

There is a particular kind of silence currently permeating the corridors of Jamaica House, one that does not suggest the quietude of deep thought but rather, the hollow stillness of a moral vacuum. As…
A homeowner in Black River, St Elizabeth, conducts roof repairs in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Christopher Burgess | Rum bar recovery and reconstruction

Five months after Hurricane Melissa, rebuilding in the worst-affected communities is drifting back towards fragility.
Robert S. Mueller III testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, July 24, 2019.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Gordon Robinson | Death of a patriot; death of a nation

On March 21, proof beyond a reasonable doubt that USA is a soulless, cruel, immoral nation was presented. Let me be clear. There are Americans who are good, thoughtful, kind, intelligent people. They…
A view of the General Assembly Hall following the vote on resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.
29 Mar, 2026 0

Adekeye Adebajo | Black Atlantic’s dogged quest for reparations

In 2023, the African Union (AU) mandated Ghana to lead the reparations struggle of Africa and its diaspora, under the energetic leadership of Nana Akufo-Addo, who built strong bridges with the…