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In Focus

Children look through a fence at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Having dropped the ball on Haiti, apparently shameless CARICOM leaders are huffing and puffing in an inelegant scramble to appear to retrieve it. I TOLD YOU three months ago the situation in Haiti was far more important to CARICOM than any fool-...
Students read during a ‘Drop everything and Read’ session at Grove Primary School in East Rural St Andrew. Don Robotham writes: There should be an increase in library teachers and the library service, whose sole task will be to support the work of the

The debate about the failings of the Jamaican economy has largely focused on productivity. The argument has been that our productivity is low and the task is to increase productivity. But, is low productivity the core issue? The answer is ‘no’! The...
In this 2019 photo former Chief of Defence Staff Lieutenant General Rocky Meade (left) with Eric Khant (centre) then chargé d’ affaires, United States Embassy and Lieutenant Aceion Prescott at the Boston Whaler and SAFE Boat Handover Ceremony at Jamaica

The complex and global nature of transnational organised crime poses a significant threat not just to Jamaica, but to the entire Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. Over the past couple of years, there has been a marked upsurge in...

In August of last year after a block of eight houses on Walkers Avenue in the troubled community of Gregory Park was set afire by armed criminals, even as the ashes were still warm, the prime minister visited, and the opposition leader did so too....

In 2015, the United Nations (UN) declared a Decade for People of African Descent, (2015-2024) on the triple platforms of Recognition, Justice, and Development. At the time of the declaration, Ban Ki-Moon, then secretary general of the UN, asserted...

There are at least two things which are crystal clear from the results of the February 26 local government elections. First, it was close, and second, the active abstentions are now at a level which must be concerning to the Jamaican democracy...

The Ministry of National Security’s (MNS) refusal to grant asylum to 37 Haitian asylum seekers is heartbreaking. Decision letters were delivered to the Haitians at around 9 p.m. on February 27, under the cover of darkness, like much of the process...

This World Obesity Day, observed annually on March 4, the Heart Foundation of Jamaica is imploring Jamaicans to join in the conversation and let’s talk about obesity and the need for healthy school food environments. It is incumbent that we...

The world is currently experiencing not greater multipolarity, but greater bipolarity. America and China are waging a new Cold War that is less about ideology and more about markets and technology. The West’s share of global output has fallen to...

Recent Local Government Elections (LGEs) again featured Jamaica’s political immaturity and neediness. At time of writing, “Chatty Chatty” Dayton is still on radio trumpeting a 7-7 result which he says is a PNP “win” based on “popular vote” and...
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