In Focus
June 7, 2026
Mark Wignall | Big, bad, war machine
In March, a sanctioned Russian tanker shipped 730,000 barrels of oil to Cuba, a country engineered to wither away and starve to death courtesy of US President Donald Trump. The tanker was partially…
May 31, 2026
Christian Tavares-Finson | Confronting crime, police-citizen interactions and due process
Jamaica is at a defining moment in its fight against crime.Across this country, there are questions in the minds of many. What if it’s me? What if it’s my family. Will I be safe? Will I be mistaken…
May 31, 2026
Sabrina Barnes | Beyond sisterhood: Hypocrisy, power, and politics
The conversation about women in politics is often framed through a simplistic lens: women should support women at all costs. Yet reality is far more complicated. The same societies that criticise men…
May 31, 2026
Mark Shields | Stop reinventing the wheel, start issuing tickets
Latoya Bulgin is dead. Her body was handled by the men sworn to protect her with a callousness that shocked the nation. Days later, Prime Minister Andrew Holness stood before the 91st Staff and Junior…
May 31, 2026
Dennis Minott | The Hanta death of accountability in modern Jamaica – Part Two
Compounding the cultural and structural paralysis is a palpable fear of institutional destabilisation. Many judges in fragile democracies harbour an acute anxiety of appearing ‘too activist’. They…
May 31, 2026
Mark Wignall | Democracy in crutches
A parliamentary democracy is a sham arrangement where one man one vote is so magnified as if it can turn water into wine. The promises are usually empty and generationally embarrassing.
Let's…
May 31, 2026
Christopher Tufton | Without malice or protest
Small states must look to the South for health human capital support
As the world turns so are the uncertainties of small island states who are trying to determine what next for the treatment of…
May 24, 2026
Kimberly Stewart | Whose job is it to fix the spending gap for children?
Blame is not a useful response to a structural problem. A problem is structural when it is built into the rules, the incentives, and the institutional design of a system; it persists regardless of who…
May 24, 2026
Gordon Robinson | Ain’t it wondrous?
So Chris Tufton’s Review Committee appointed to do UHWI’s Board’s work has submitted its report.
The Committee was asked to:
Review and identify gaps and/or weaknesses in UHWI’s Corporate Governance…