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Public concern abounds about a recent Auditor General (AudGen) report on University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) procurement practices. Much off and leg spin deliveries were bowled in media including those using distraction to confuse us...
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The world is moving and it is not waiting on the Caribbean. In recent weeks, as global powers flexed their muscle in Venezuela, the Caribbean felt the tremor almost immediately. Not in speeches. Not in theory. But where it always hurts us first:...
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 2026 Employment and Social Trends report highlights shifting patterns of employment and social development worldwide, including distinctive trends emerging in the Caribbean and Latin America. At first...
As crime trends downward, Jamaica enters the next stage of its crime-reduction strategy, requiring a cultural shift towards peace, prevention, and lasting public trust. Jamaica has made meaningful progress in reducing crime. This progress has been...
There is a curious little word scattered through the Psalms that has survived millennia of copying, translation, chanting, disputation, and devotion – yet stubbornly refuses to explain itself. Selah. Most scholars agree on only one thing about it:...
Prime Minister Holness is right now in the process of going through, politically, the roughest period of the post-Hurricane Melissa recovery as expectations rise and governmental logistics continue to hum day and night. Sometimes his words will be...
When a police officer steps into a volatile situation, a body-worn camera will not disarm a gunman, calm a violent suspect, or magically de-escalate every confrontation. That much is obvious. So when Aubrey Stewart argues that body-worn cameras “...
There is an irony in watching the United States revive the language of territorial ambition toward Denmark, while Europe gasps in horror. For centuries, Europe refined colonial violence into policy, doctrine, and law. It normalised dispossession,...
The reduction in Jamaica’s murder rate in 2025 is a development that warrants careful attention. Recording 673 murders, the lowest figure in more than three decades, represents a notable departure from recent trends and offers an opportunity to...
In the English-speaking world, place-names often do the quiet work of history. They remember what speeches forget. They archive errors that reports smooth over. One such name, recurring with unsettling frequency across the Anglophone map, is “Folly...
In the beginning there was Inner Circle. Then Michael “Ibo” Cooper (keyboards); Stephen “Cat” Coore (guitar/cello); Milton “Prilly” Hamilton (lead vocals); Richard Daley (bass); Carl Barovier (drums) and Irvin “Carrot” Jarrett (percussion) evolved...
The reader recently wrote to me on the current situation in Venezuela. “The first time I wrote to you was many years ago when I offered you the chance to compare a verse selection from Kipling that closely mirrored a set of governmental-connected...
As a society, we repeatedly stress the importance of women bearing children, often warning that “time is running out”. At the same time, recent demographic data show declining fertility rates, prompting concerns about the long-term social and...
The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) stands as a beacon of healthcare and medical education for the Caribbean. Yet, a recent performance audit by the Auditor General’s Department has exposed deep-rooted management failures leading to...
There are moments in history when a civilisation does not collapse noisily but drifts — slowly, comfortably — away from its moral bearings. We may be living through such a moment now. Wealth, greased by technology and performative spectacle, has...
There has been much squabbling over the sharp reduction in murders reported by the police for 2025. The final number, 673, is the lowest in 30 years which, on the face of it, should be universally celebrated. Instead PNP sycophants use every excuse...
