In Focus

Gordon Robinson
September 13, 2026

Gordon Robinson | Serves them right!

Jamaica’s allegedly sovereign Government crossed the Atlantic, cap in hand, to beg (oops, sorry, “petition”) our enslavers’ King for slavery reparations. Have we no shame? Are we so accustomed to…
September 13, 2026

Dennis A Minott | From the Rupununi chaparro to the reef

A beach can remain public on paper while becoming privately unavailable in practice. Put up a gate, station a guard along the approach road, leave access unmarked, or make the route so awkward that…

Culture Minister Olivia Grange stands in front of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council building in London, England, holding the historic reparations petition document filed to King Charles III.
September 13, 2026

Mark Wignall | Dream on, reparations on the way

At one end, we have the black nationalist who believes that he’ll never be black enough to attain his real value. At the other end are those who believe that the white Europeans were the most…

In this 2025 photo, PNP supporters are seen on the streets on Nomination Day in Morant Bay, St Thomas.
September 13, 2026

Abka Fitz-Henley | Has an anti-Jamaica culture overtaken the PNP?

A series of actions, along with instances of convenient inaction, have provided enough evidence to concern well-thinking citizens of our beloved island that the Opposition People’s National Party…

Representational image of a student writing an exam.
September 13, 2026

Damion Crawford | Crisis in the classroom

The Ministry of Education’s glossy Trend brochure is a masterclass in public-relations gymnastics, not an honest assessment of our education system. By emphasising percentages based largely on…

This photo shows students at UWI Mona.
September 13, 2026

Canute Thompson | Global higher education landscape: Challenges and opportunities

The future of higher education, and universities in particular, faces substantial challenges. In the United Kingdom, about 50 universities face the risk of closure in the next few years, and half are…
September 13, 2026 by Huntley Medley

Huntley Medley | Global food prices are the biggest inflation threat

When world prices make the news, the story is almost always about oil. However, a new working paper by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) suggests that persons may have been watching the wrong barrel. The…

File photo shows a buzz of activity in the downtown Kingston shopping area.
September 6, 2026

Danielle Archer | How silence rewrites what citizens know

Jamaica is entering a moment where the most important governance question is not who holds office but how information moves. What the public thinks it knows, what it does not know, and what it was…
Imani Tafari-Ama.
September 6, 2026

Imani Tafari-Ama | When the machine does the thinking

The anxiety surrounding the pervasive power of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its potential impact on mental development, learning and psychosocial behaviour, has become sufficiently…