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Gordon Robinson | Ain’t it wondrous?

So Chris Tufton’s Review Committee appointed to do UHWI’s Board’s work has submitted its report. The Committee was asked to: Review and identify gaps and/or weaknesses in UHWI’s Corporate Governance…
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Donna Scott-Mottley | A united CARICOM is a necessity

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools,” said Martin Luther King Jr. It is a truth that speaks directly to the Caribbean today. Geography alone is not enough to define…
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Matthew Smith, Matthew Stallard and Frankie Chappell | Narrating stories of the enslaved people of Jamaica

For 200 years, the most extensive records of pre-Emancipation Jamaicans have sat in London – originally in the old Public Record Office at Kew and now in The National Archives, UK. These Registers…
May 17, 2026

Jalil Dabdoub | Jamaica’s struggle for democratic balance

Jamaica stands at a defining constitutional moment. The legal battle between Prime Minister Holness and the Integrity Commission (IC) is not just a dispute over statutory declarations, corruption,…
May 17, 2026

Gordon Robinson | Wanted: a viable opposition

It seems PNP “leaders” have decided to be sheep instead of shepherds and thus likely to plunge Jamaica into the abyss of a de facto One-Party State. The once proud PNP whose ideas inspired a…
May 17, 2026

Dennis Minott | Holness vs Zuma: Seven uncanny parallels in Jamdown and Mzansi

There are moments in the life of a nation when thoughtful citizens experience a growing unease — not because democracy has collapsed, but because patterns repeat with disturbing familiarity. Jamaica…
May 17, 2026

Mark Wignall | The ghosts of Hurricane Melissa

If you were living in or close to areas that were heavily impacted by Hurricane Melissa in late last year, your judgment of the quality of recovery would be much different to someone else who lived in…
May 17, 2026

Imani Tafari-Ama | Regional moment for Rastafari rights

The annual April 21 commemoration of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I’s historic 1966 visit to Jamaica carried special weight this year. In 2026, marked the 60th anniversary of that…
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May 9, 2026

A.J. Nicholson | Vale Royal talks? Hurricane Melissa's milestone message 

Whatever became of the officially-proposed pre-Hurricane Melissa expectant Vale Royal talks on constitutional reform?  In a recent interchange with a senior parliamentarian on that subject-matter, he…