In Focus

The latest affront to Constitutional governance was conducted in the Senate on Friday February 6 when a proposed Bill to amend the Financial Investigation Division Act (FIDA) was passed into law. The primary value of this Bill to Government was...

Glaciers – the world’s hidden water banks - are a source of life for billions. The seasonal melt from mountains and glaciers sustains some of the world’s most important rivers such as the Indus, the Nile, the Ganges, and the Colorado. Those and...

The doctor wears on her sleeves her need to see and experience the sort of cultural transformation needed at the The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) “... it [UHWI] must remain steadfast in its commitment to improving patient care,...

In the wake of the recent tragedy on the Font Hill main road, Vic-Chairman of National Road Safety Council Lucien Jones is right to warn that 2026 will bring more “avoidable tragedy” unless Jamaica moves quickly to implement the demerit point...

What if you had invested approximately US$1,500 to apply for an immigrant visa – or US$500 for a non-immigrant visa – believing that this was your lawful passage from a constrained local economy into the promise of opportunity in the Global North...

The Gleaner’s recent editorial on restoring education ought to trouble every Jamaican who claims to care about the country’s future. The attendance figures it reports are not merely disappointing; they are structurally dangerous. When nearly one-...

Public concern abounds about a recent Auditor General (AudGen) report on University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) procurement practices. Much off and leg spin deliveries were bowled in media including those using distraction to confuse us...

As crime trends downward, Jamaica enters the next stage of its crime-reduction strategy, requiring a cultural shift towards peace, prevention, and lasting public trust. Jamaica has made meaningful progress in reducing crime. This progress has been...

The world is moving and it is not waiting on the Caribbean. In recent weeks, as global powers flexed their muscle in Venezuela, the Caribbean felt the tremor almost immediately. Not in speeches. Not in theory. But where it always hurts us first:...

There is an irony in watching the United States revive the language of territorial ambition toward Denmark, while Europe gasps in horror. For centuries, Europe refined colonial violence into policy, doctrine, and law. It normalised dispossession,...

The reader recently wrote to me on the current situation in Venezuela. “The first time I wrote to you was many years ago when I offered you the chance to compare a verse selection from Kipling that closely mirrored a set of governmental-connected...

In the beginning there was Inner Circle. Then Michael “Ibo” Cooper (keyboards); Stephen “Cat” Coore (guitar/cello); Milton “Prilly” Hamilton (lead vocals); Richard Daley (bass); Carl Barovier (drums) and Irvin “Carrot” Jarrett (percussion) evolved...