In Focus

Gone are the days of passive involvement. The importance of patient engagement and empowerment is paramount in getting the care you need and deserve. By actively participating in your healthcare, you can make informed decisions, prevent potential...

Following the major pollution incident in the Rio Cobre in July 2022, the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) decided to investigate the efficacy of the environmental water-quality monitoring conducted by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) and the...

Mr Isat Buchanan, is it at all possible that in the last few days you have revisited the innards of your brain and concluded that you dealt a most painful blow to younger Jamaicans who considered you, a well-known attorney at law, as heroic...

Five months before the February 29, 1989 elections the monster Hurricane Gilbert had ripped through Jamaica like an industrial chainsaw. Carl Stone’s latest poll was showing that Seaga’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would be forced to deal with the...

Last week, while essentially categorizing JLP/PNP as no better herring; no better barrel, I accused PNP of trying to lose the next election by prioritising disunity and JLP of the same by trying to neuter the Integrity Commission. Well, apologies...

Jamaica recently refused to grant immunity to the partner of a diplomat from the United States (US) because the couple is involved in a same-sex union. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) explained that to grant the immunity...

During my brief hiatus from boring you to tears I was forcibly reminded that, as a child, I was a UK subject. I read the best UK literature including Dickens, Tennyson, Austen, Burns and Shaw. But I always preferred humour so gravitated towards...

France often likes to pride itself as the heir of progressive regicidal revolutionaries, as enshrined in its national motto: liberté, égalité and fraternité (liberty, equality and fraternity). The recent riots in the country have, however, exposed...

On July 21, The Gleaner published an article entitled “Windalco bauxite levy relief will save jobs - Clarke.” How long will the Government of Jamaica continue to prop up the aluminium industry in Jamaica? Bauxite levy waivers, duty waivers, no...

“If you want a truly representative and effective Parliament that acts on behalf of the people of Jamaica and not in the interest of their political party, we have to cut the umbilical cord of politics,” said Dr D.K. Duncan in 1993. The umbilical...

It is not just your imagination. These days are way hotter than they were five decades ago. And although President Donald Trump demonstrated that climate change denial is a political thing, global temperature increases have exploded the myth that...

Jamaica is at a critical juncture in its economic life, similar to what it was in the 1960s when it missed the technological boom that China, the United States, Japan, Singapore, and other countries were able to capitalise on to advance their...