In Focus
May 24, 2026
Donna Scott-Mottley | A united CARICOM is a necessity
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools,” said Martin Luther King Jr. It is a truth that speaks directly to the Caribbean today. Geography alone is not enough to define…
May 24, 2026
Matthew Smith, Matthew Stallard and Frankie Chappell | Narrating stories of the enslaved people of Jamaica
For 200 years, the most extensive records of pre-Emancipation Jamaicans have sat in London – originally in the old Public Record Office at Kew and now in The National Archives, UK. These Registers…
May 17, 2026
Jalil Dabdoub | Jamaica’s struggle for democratic balance
Jamaica stands at a defining constitutional moment. The legal battle between Prime Minister Holness and the Integrity Commission (IC) is not just a dispute over statutory declarations, corruption,…
May 17, 2026
Gordon Robinson | Wanted: a viable opposition
It seems PNP “leaders” have decided to be sheep instead of shepherds and thus likely to plunge Jamaica into the abyss of a de facto One-Party State.
The once proud PNP whose ideas inspired a…
May 17, 2026
Dennis Minott | Holness vs Zuma: Seven uncanny parallels in Jamdown and Mzansi
There are moments in the life of a nation when thoughtful citizens experience a growing unease — not because democracy has collapsed, but because patterns repeat with disturbing familiarity. Jamaica…
May 17, 2026
Mark Wignall | The ghosts of Hurricane Melissa
If you were living in or close to areas that were heavily impacted by Hurricane Melissa in late last year, your judgment of the quality of recovery would be much different to someone else who lived in…
May 17, 2026
Imani Tafari-Ama | Regional moment for Rastafari rights
The annual April 21 commemoration of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I’s historic 1966 visit to Jamaica carried special weight this year. In 2026, marked the 60th anniversary of that…
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May 9, 2026
A.J. Nicholson | Vale Royal talks? Hurricane Melissa's milestone message
Whatever became of the officially-proposed pre-Hurricane Melissa expectant Vale Royal talks on constitutional reform?
In a recent interchange with a senior parliamentarian on that subject-matter, he…
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May 9, 2026
Jalil Dabdoub | Diplomatic deception: Selective framing and challenge of honest dialogue
The recent Gleaner commentary by Raslan Abu Rukun presents a tired Israeli narrative: Israel as a willing partner for peace, Lebanon as a state held hostage by Hezbollah, and Iran as the destabilising…