In Focus
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…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | PNP on shaky ground
By way of YouTube, last week I heard a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) intellectual and pragmatist refer to the fullness of the JLP as ‘governmental ‘ administration instead of ‘ruling’ administration as I…
December 9, 2025
Patrick Robinson | Need for a body of counsellors
Elaine Thompson-Herah of Banana Ground, Manchester, Jamaica is arguably the greatest female sprinter the world has ever seen. For the purpose of the analysis below, I am excluding the records held by…
December 9, 2025
Richard Amenyah | Case for making the Caribbean’s HIV response sustainable
When the Caribbean mounted its bold response to HIV in the 1990s and early 2000s, it did so with the heavy backing of external donors. Through shared responsibility and global solidarity, the World…
December 9, 2025
Ruthlyn James | Fix it or fail our children
In Jamaica, families are fighting battles that few ever see. These are not the battles of indiscipline or “bad behaviour”, as is too often whispered. They are the daily struggles of parents raising…
December 9, 2025
Dennis Minott | ‘Music with a Caribbean beat’: A discriminatory distortion’
I praise God for overseas, multicultural, polyglot education Each morning, many Jamaicans tune into a radio segment which promises a generous survey of the region’s astonishing musical variety.