In Focus

A man fishes in Cocorite, Trinidad and Tobago.
December 9, 2025

Curtis Ward | Implications of US military operations in the southern Caribbean

At the time of writing this article, US military strikes blew up five small boats in the southern Caribbean Sea between Venezuela and Trinidad and killed nearly 30 people. No evidence has been offered…
In this 2021 photo a woman is seen arguing with others over the allocation of yellow split peas after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
December 9, 2025

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The existence of hunger is a political choice

In 2024, the wealthiest nations helped drive the largest surge in military spending since the end of the Cold War, reaching US$2.7 trillion that year. Yet, they failed to deliver on their own…
President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office at the White House.
December 9, 2025

Mark Wignall | Do you know that politician?

Unless he was socially premature and thus not fully formed at the beginning, just about every politician is made with two essential major parts. The first is the need to rev the ego while on…
Homer Davis
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Pack your bags and go!

If you didn’t know that Jamaican governance is fatally flawed, last week’s spat between former and current MPs in St James Southern ensured you know now.
Fort Charles at Port Royal.
December 9, 2025

Dennis Minott | Pulverising romance of Port Royal and plunder

There is an unsettling ease with which Jamaica is now being asked to clap for pirates. Port Royal has gained the glitter of UNESCO inscription and, in the heady rush to monetise heritage, marketers…
Gordon Robinson writes: Based on Jamaica’s history and current reality, is there another way to reduce murders than police targeting and killing suspected murderers after being “challenged”?
December 9, 2025

Mark Wignall | That questionable Farquharson killing

Most uptown people whose penthouses shield them from violent encounters with the police usually don’t care too much about another policeman’s bullet taking the life of an everyday citizen. Just as…
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 26.
December 9, 2025

Jalil Dabdoub | Absent and accountable: Jamaica, genocide, and the lie of neutrality

Jamaica once stood tall in the international arena – with a proud, principled advocacy for the oppressed and international law. But at the last UNGA, that legacy was abandoned. On the resolution…
President Donald Trump addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters.
December 9, 2025

Adekeye Adebajo | The King’s speech: Trump at the UN

American president, Donald Trump’s recent extraordinary speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, once again demonstrated his monarchical delusions, as he haughtily proclaimed to…
The prime minister and members of his cabinet pose for a photo: In front row (from left) are: Desmond McKenzie; Dr. Horace Chang; Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness; Olivia Grange; Robert Montague. Second row: Daryl Vaz; Pearnel Charles Jr; Audrey Marks; Dan
December 9, 2025

Jalil Dabdoub | Cabinet bloat and the crisis of entitlement

The recent Cabinet appointments, along with the insolent walkout by veteran member of parliament (MP) Everald Warmington, apparently in protest to his omission from same, expose the entitlement and…