In Focus

With global metal producers celebrating aluminium as the green metal of the future, and the consumption of the metal increasing by more than 100 per cent since year 2000, aluminium is now being posted by marketing analysts as the metal with the...

Pharmacy owner Dave Murphy and his employee John Love were recently arrested and charged by the St Catherine police, in conjunction with the Pharmacy Council of Jamaica, for illegally dispensing pharmaceutical drugs without the presence of a...

Located in the Leeward Islands, the island of St Martin comprises two individual countries: St Martin, colonised by France, and Sint Marteen, colonised by the Netherlands. The Netherlands recently issued two apologies on December 19, 2022, and...

My heart was heavy, and bitterness had taken over my soul as I read of the horrific deaths of two young boys whose lives were recently snuffed out because an adult passenger in the taxi was the target of the shooting. Like you and those you...

Before I travelled to Jamaica last December to become Ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, I asked my predecessor which books I should read to understand Jamaica. He immediately recommended The Confounding Island, by Orlando Patterson in 2019. He was a...

While recently addressing the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, demanded that the world body begin withdrawing its 18,000 troops from his country by...

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Alright, you got me. Dickens’ eyes are rolling wherever he may be. But yet…. Regarding governance, Jamaica is experiencing the worst of times. A Government with a super parliamentary majority...

Violence in any shape or form is an inappropriate mechanism of human communication. Whether it is committed by an aggressor or a defender, violence is an indicator that something has gone wrong in the interaction between the entities engaged in...

In a significant legal victory for homeowners and communities in Jamaica, the Supreme Court recently delivered a decisive judgment regarding the operation of short-term rentals. This ruling, which resolves a protracted dispute in Hope Pastures, St...

On the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women on October 15, it is imperative to recognise and value women’s leading role in agri-food systems. From farming to distribution and consumption, women are at the heart of the food supply chain...

‘Fraud’ runs deep”, was the headline of the article published in The Gleaner on October 8 dealing with the use of ineligible players in this year’s high school schoolboy football competition. As happens so often in Jamaica, the big fish were able...

The Caribbean, and by extension, the global reparations movement has picked up tremendous steam over the past year. From 2013 when Caribbean leaders made the decision to create the CARICOM Reparations Commission to seek reparatory justice for the...