In Focus

Cawn’t sey mi neva dida warn yu! In a column ( Our Fascination with US politics; September 3), I wrote: “The difference between Trump’s and Biden’s immigration policy isn’t easily discernible….” Guess what? On October 5, the Associated Press...

It behoves us to understand the world around us or as we experience it, whether it is the latest music that we dive into or the earthquake that moved most of us on the evening of September 21. Let us explore the less acknowledged seismic ‘drift’,...

The recent upsurge in crime and violence across Jamaica is appalling. Over the last few weeks, there have been several quadruple and triple murders, Lifetime Movie Network type of murders, robberies and several other heinous crimes and violent...

The media river is in a spate with misinformation, and, unfortunately, I am trying to swim upstream, an impossible task when ignorance abounds. The party leaders’ performance ratings should be compared, since these are the two choices the voters...

In a TVJ Sports exposé September 25-26 delivered by sports reporter Jordan Forte, psychologist Olivia Rose and Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison revealed some of the formidable psychological hurdles, pressures, faced by sports recruits...

In the age of climate crisis, we need collaborative efforts to meet pressing environmental challenges. We must bring together diverse stakeholders to exchange ideas, share knowledge, encourage impactful solutions, and advocate policy change. We...

Summer is officially over so Jamaica is currently knee deep in a flood of waste material produced by a new political silly season. The first emission was an ill-conceived ultimatum issued to Government by His Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition (...

The education system in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region has long been a topic of discussion, with both successes and challenges. One of the persistent issues that have plagued these educational institutions is the practice commonly referred...

In an article published in the Sunday Gleaner of July 30, titled ‘The Potential of Nuclear Energy as Part of the Future Energy Mix in Jamaica’, Oshane Hamilton explored the viability of integrating nuclear energy into Jamaica’s energy landscape....

In July, 37 Haitians landed in Portland on Jamaica’s east coast. This was followed by 36 refugees seeking sanctuary on September 9. Current crisis conditions of life in the Haitian republic galvanised these 67 desperate men, women and children to...

So a parliamentarian is finally named in the proper context namely that she’s to be charged for corruption related offences. As I’ve previously written “I don’t care who is “investigating” whom for what. If the investigation reveals enough EVIDENCE...

It began with key government personnel openly and repeatedly castigating the Integrity Commission (IC) as if that body’s operations – examinations, investigations into the political directorate - were somehow out of synch with good governance....