In Focus
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | When democracy slips away
The present White House led by Donald Trump is devouring democracy and doing it with glee and much haste. Here in Jamaica we gave it our special birth, our special nurturing and when it veered off…
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December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Change is in the air
At 20 Belmont Road and a stone’s throw (well, maybe two throws) away, at 89 Old Hope Road, winds of change are blowing. JLP’s focus on change was signalled by dissolution of an ill-advised Legal and…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Begin again!
A Constitution is to the building of a nation as a foundation is to the building of a house. A foundation sets the framework within which the house must be built. Then walls and roof are added but…
December 9, 2025
Patricia Green | Why is Jamaica celebrating pirates?
What is there to celebrate about pirates that Kingston would be allowed to designate an entire week for this? Historians describe a pirate as the lowest grade of seafaring robbers, the scourge of the…
December 9, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | The fall of Peter Mandelson
The 71-year old Peter Mandelson was recently fired as Britain’s Ambassador to the United States (US) amidst more revelations of his close ties with American financier and convicted sex offender,…
December 9, 2025
A.J. Nicholson | Fresh start advocated, Prime Minister
Prime Minister Holness’ decade-long silence concerning access to final justice ended in a pre-election debate in answering a question on Jamaica transitioning from the Privy Council to the Caribbean…
December 9, 2025
Dennis Minott | From mixed nuts to enlightened nation builders
In virtually every Caribbean household there is a tin or bag of mixed nuts, often presented to visitors at Christmas or stashed away for special occasions. The contents are never uniform. Some nuts…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | This has happened before
“Andrew gwine lose him seat,” she said to me. It was September 3, election night, and many were nervous as would be expected. Count me among them. “No, pretty girl,” I said. “It’s just an imbalance of…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Vazland breached!
Post election, the loudest public kerfuffle surrounded the query “how cum ‘Action Ann’ lose to ‘Little Youth’ in East Portland?” I was among those pre-election pundits who carelessly placed Portland…