In Focus

In this 2023 photo people line up outside an immigration office as they wait their turns to apply for a passport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
February 8, 2026

Imani Tafari-Ama | US immigration policy and the old wounds of separation

What if you had invested approximately US$1,500 to apply for an immigrant visa – or US$500 for a non-immigrant visa – believing that this was your lawful passage from a constrained local economy into…
View of a section of The University Hospital of the West Indies in St Andrew.
February 1, 2026

Gordon Robinson | A hospital sicker than its patients

Public concern abounds about a recent Auditor General (AudGen) report on University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) procurement practices.
Barry Griffin writes: Trade and business must become the glue of Caribbean unity ...
February 1, 2026

Barry Griffin | Trade must be the Caribbean’s new doctrine

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…
ILO writes: Fewer people may be unemployed, but many remain trapped in low-productivity, informal and insecure jobs – conditions that undermine long-term growth ...
February 1, 2026

The Caribbean labour market paradox

The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 2026 Employment and Social Trends report highlights shifting patterns of employment and social development worldwide, including distinctive trends…
This 2022 photo shows Clarendon Neighbourhood Watch-JCF Peace March which was organised under the theme ‘Resolving Conflict Without The Use Of Violence’.
February 1, 2026

Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn | Beyond the numbers: What peace must mean for Jamaica

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…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
February 1, 2026

Mark Wignall | When a hurricane blows away a leader

Prime Minister Holness is right now in the process of going through, politically, the roughest period of the post-Hurricane Melissa recovery as expectations rise and governmental logistics continue to…
February 1, 2026

Dennis Minott | Selah: A meaningless word that still commands us to pause

There is a curious little word scattered through the Psalms that has survived millennia of copying, translation, chanting, disputation, and devotion – yet stubbornly refuses to explain itself. Selah.…
File Body-worn cameras on display at the Police Commissioner’s Office in St Andrew.
January 25, 2026

Mark Shields | Body-worn cameras don’t stop bullets – but they can stop lies

When a police officer steps into a volatile situation, a body-worn camera will not disarm a gunman, calm a violent suspect, or magically de-escalate every confrontation. That much is obvious. So when…
AP Children sort through trash at a landfill in al-Bureij camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
January 25, 2026

Jalil Dabdoub | Mandela’s warning: Colonialism, leadership, and the cost of selective principles

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,…