In Focus
13 Sep, 2026
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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…
13 Sep, 2026
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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…
13 Sep, 2026
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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…
13 Sep, 2026
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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…
13 Sep, 2026
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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…
06 Sep, 2026
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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…
06 Sep, 2026
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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…
06 Sep, 2026
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Mark Wignall | Should we be scared of the police?
Recently, there was a ‘road rage’ incident involving members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). One JCF member shot at another JCF member during the incident. Most unbelievable. Squaddies…
06 Sep, 2026
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Gordon Robinson | When you listen you learn
Life is a series of choices made by you that are the only reasons what you call “good” or “bad” happens to you. Nobody does anything to you. You do everything to or for yourself. Let’s reason this…