In Focus

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...

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...

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:...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

As Jamaica intensifies its crackdown on crime, confrontations between the police and criminal suspects have become more frequent. These encounters, often unfolding in high-risk and highly visible circumstances, have sharpened public concern about...

Bruce Golding’s recent article in the Jamaica Observer, titled ‘Things fall apart’ in almost every respect, is a truthful and courageous reckoning with the collapse of the post-WWII rules-based international order. The article, written by someone...

As we enter 2026, Jamaica confronts a stark paradox. In 2025, the nation achieved a historic breakthrough: murders fell to a provisional 673, the lowest annual total in over three decades and a roughly 41 per cent decline from 2024. This dramatic...

In my customary perusal of the Sunday Gleaner, December 7, two interesting articles caught my eye. The first questioned God’s purpose following Melissa’s untimely destruction of a country, which I remind you, has the most churches per square mile...