In Focus

I have known the Reverend Al Miller for the better part of 40 years. I am distressed, but not entirely surprised by the findings of guilt by the learned magistrate, Simone Wolfe Reece. I was, I suppose, just as stunned by the response to the verdict...

For many, if not most, Jamaicans, the only issue worth discussing about Independence is that it was celebrated yesterday and, distressingly, they don?t have a holiday tomorrow.Independence is absolutely meaningless to them. If you insist on engaging...

On July 14, 2016, the newly appointed board of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) was mandated by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to make the creation of Jamaica's third city a priority. Prime Minister Holness is of the view that a new city would...

In some developed democracies, she would have been dead. At a minimum, she would have been tased with 50,000 volts from a police 'non-lethal' weapon. And there is nothing shocking about that.Like thousands of conscientious Jamaicans, I saw the video...

If I hear one more person ask what can be done today or short term to reduce crime, I'm likely to commit a non-bailable offence.If I hear one more self-styled defender of the Constitution try to answer these inane questions, I'll have the same...

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.- Marcus GarveyThe Jamaican economy has to be turbocharged, not next week, not next month, and certainly not five years' time when it is forecast by the chairman of the Economic Growth Council, Michael...

Jamaicans are spending too much time obsessing about Donald Trump. They can rest assured Trump doesn’t spend a millisecond thinking about them. Expressions of horror at Trump’s likelihood of becoming POTUS are everywhere. His utterances...

The growing concern over the Zika virus highlights a frightening reality. The world remains ill-prepared for a fast-moving virus. Over the past decade, Ebola, avian flu, swine flu, and other pandemics have shown how vulnerable the world can be when...

Someone just woke up one morning, decided to get a gun and shoot at police officers. Call him a madman or a misguided youth, but when you are a police officer staring down the barrel of a gun in the hands of a murderer, you don't have time to ponder...

I have a measure of personal regard for the minister of education, Senator Ruel Reid, but I, like so many educators and citizens, have a problem with his approach to policy design and implementation. One of the recent gems of our political culture...

Two parents abandon their three-year-old girl at home to party while she is taken away, allegedly raped and chopped to death. A woman sentenced with her common-law husband for human trafficking said her arrest saved a her life as she herself had...

She was found in the green bushes in Orange Hill. The coincidence of colours tells you that crime crosses colour lines and all age groups. It is not a body, the carcass of an animal, or remnants of a praedial thief's predation. Nevalesia Campbell...