In Focus
16 Oct, 2025
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The existence of hunger is a political choice
In 2024, the wealthiest nations helped drive the largest surge in military spending since the end of the Cold War, reaching US$2.7 trillion that year. Yet, they failed to deliver on their own…
16 Oct, 2025
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Mark Wignall | Do you know that politician?
Unless he was socially premature and thus not fully formed at the beginning, just about every politician is made with two essential major parts. The first is the need to rev the ego while on…
03 Oct, 2025
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Gordon Robinson | Pack your bags and go!
If you didn’t know that Jamaican governance is fatally flawed, last week’s spat between former and current MPs in St James Southern ensured you know now.
03 Oct, 2025
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Dennis Minott | Pulverising romance of Port Royal and plunder
There is an unsettling ease with which Jamaica is now being asked to clap for pirates. Port Royal has gained the glitter of UNESCO inscription and, in the heady rush to monetise heritage, marketers…
02 Oct, 2025
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Mark Wignall | That questionable Farquharson killing
Most uptown people whose penthouses shield them from violent encounters with the police usually don’t care too much about another policeman’s bullet taking the life of an everyday citizen. Just as…
02 Oct, 2025
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Jalil Dabdoub | Absent and accountable: Jamaica, genocide, and the lie of neutrality
Jamaica once stood tall in the international arena – with a proud, principled advocacy for the oppressed and international law. But at the last UNGA, that legacy was abandoned. On the resolution…
02 Oct, 2025
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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…
26 Sep, 2025
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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…
26 Sep, 2025
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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.