In Focus
December 9, 2025
Adekeye Adebajo | Farewell to Nigeria’s pioneering female scholar-diplomat
Joy Uche Ogwu, Nigeria’s most prominent female scholar-diplomat, recently died in New York at the age of 79. In a deeply patriarchal, male-chauvinist Nigerian society in which women are often…
December 9, 2025
Mark Golding | Unity, transparency and compassion must guide Jamaica’s recovery
In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, our nation faces the harsh reality of rebuilding lives, communities, and livelihoods. In these moments of collective hardship, political divisions must give way…
December 9, 2025
Christopher Burgess | Palisadoes Peninsula: Lessons from Melissa
Hurricane Melissa brought high seas along the Palisadoes Peninsula, and the coastal protection works held firm. Minister Daryl Vaz reported that he was “pleased to update the public that the…
December 9, 2025
Mark Wignall | When tears are not enough
I can best express my pain by using the first words that come to me. And of course, it’s all about the destruction left behind by the passage of the monster hurricane, Melissa. The first words, quite…
December 9, 2025
Africka Stephens | Resilience is the real headline ... not that children were hiding in tunnels
When Hurricane Melissa loomed over Jamaica, international journalists rushed to report what many framed as impending devastation. Likewise, many observers, regionally and internationally, rushed to…
December 9, 2025
Don Anderson | Windies cricket: Infrastructure a new word for application
As a loyal West Indies cricket fan who stays up day and night to watch our games wherever they are played, I am, like many others, very distressed to find us near or at the bottom rung of the…
December 9, 2025
Imani Tafari-Ama | Surviving the trauma of Hurricane Melissa
The lone woman sitting on the evacuation bus travelling from Port Royal to a designated shelter was an explicit essay. Most residents refused to leave their homes to travel to the public facilities. …
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | We were complicit!
There’s turmoil in Caribbean waters not caused by Melissa. CNN: “US military has been steadily massing a large number of troops, naval and air assets in the Caribbean over the last two months,…
December 9, 2025
Densil Williams | Unravelling growth: productivity in the digital age
Bad policy choices are not the only factor responsible for high and sustained levels of economic growth to elude Jamaica. There are structural defects in the economy as well. For high levels of…