In Focus
December 9, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | The King’s speech: Trump at the UN
American president, Donald Trump’s recent extraordinary speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, once again demonstrated his monarchical delusions, as he haughtily proclaimed to…
December 9, 2025
Jalil Dabdoub | Cabinet bloat and the crisis of entitlement
The recent Cabinet appointments, along with the insolent walkout by veteran member of parliament (MP) Everald Warmington, apparently in protest to his omission from same, expose the entitlement and…
December 9, 2025
Dennis Minott | Harmful buffoonery
Behind the neat rows of school timetables lies harmful buffoonery, where pools-timetabling locks children’s dreams into cages and wastes national talent.
December 9, 2025
Imani Tafari-Ama | Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
Multiple thoughts must have swirled around in Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness‘ mind as he took the oath of office for the fourth time in his elongated political career. Did it occur to him in those…
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December 9, 2025
Garth Minott | A budget is a moral document
Budgets are moral documents. This is the title of an article by Catholic priest Fr. Travis Russell. A criminal justice policy advisor for the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology in the…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | When democracy slips away
The present White House led by Donald Trump is devouring democracy and doing it with glee and much haste. Here in Jamaica we gave it our special birth, our special nurturing and when it veered off…
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December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Change is in the air
At 20 Belmont Road and a stone’s throw (well, maybe two throws) away, at 89 Old Hope Road, winds of change are blowing. JLP’s focus on change was signalled by dissolution of an ill-advised Legal and…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Begin again!
A Constitution is to the building of a nation as a foundation is to the building of a house. A foundation sets the framework within which the house must be built. Then walls and roof are added but…
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…