In Focus

Mark Wignall writes: Nothing really surprises about the police reaching out to the residents in efforts to quell violence. In plain language, it makes sense.
December 28, 2025

Mark Wignall | Present me with real honour

In many ways, it has to be more than just what you feel about me and significantly deeper than that. It has to be much more than that. I want to feel an intense connection. Closer than it could ever…
Drummers seen playing at Maroon Festival in Accompong, St Elizabeth.
December 21, 2025

Stephen Vasciannie | Assessing Accompong assertions

The Maroons are a distinct but divided people. Some Maroons find their national identity through full membership of Jamaican society as Jamaican nationals, engaging in Jamaican cultural life, sharing…
A JPS electricity pole broken by the passage of Hurricane Melissa is seen in Mandeville, Manchester.
December 21, 2025

Mark Wignall | What a nerve!

This comes with the most bold-faced audacity; The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) claiming seven per cent increase in electricity rates. What makes this so jarring to the nerves is what went down before.…
A downed light pole along Authur Wint Drive in St Andrew during the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28.
December 21, 2025

Dennis Minott | Sunlight now is cheaper than scandal later

The arrival of 117 Canadian electrical linesmen to assist the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) in restoring power after Hurricane Melissa has been greeted with official smiles, airport photo-ops,…
In this October 30 photo a man is seen sitting by the roadside on High Street, Black River, surrounded by debris of structures damaged by Hurricane Melissa.
December 21, 2025

Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Disaster debris isn’t just garbage

Drone footage and satellite images taken after Hurricane Melissa revealed a landscape littered with wreckage - trees stripped bare, vegetation ripped from the ground, roofing sheets, doors, windows,…
Mangled remains of a house in Westmoreland flattened by Hurricane Melissa.
December 21, 2025

Imani Tafari-Ama | Hurricane Melissa didn’t end — It moved inside us

When the winds died down and the floodwaters receded, what remained was not only broken infrastructure, but broken routines, broken security and broken peace of mind. And yet, our recovery discourse…
December 21, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Out with the old; in with the new

Some time ago you either bought or were gifted, probably by a spouse or parent, a different type of telephone. It was shaped like a half oval. It wasn’t attached to the wall. It could fit in your…
The USS Gravely destroyer prepares to dock for military exercises in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
December 21, 2025

Curtis Ward | A target on her back – Trinidad and Tobago in the crosshairs

Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar switched from obfuscations and denials to admission of reality – her government unreservedly sided with president Donald Trump’s US…
Ian Allen/Photographer Belongings are seen piled up on a street filled with mud in a section of Catherine Hall Montego Bay, St James, which was affected by Hurricane Melissa.
December 14, 2025

Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | Storms are inevitable, but the scale of the devastation is not

Driving into West Green, Montego Bay, the damage from Hurricane Melissa even a month later was still unmistakable. Dried mud crusted the roadway and, in front of almost every house were piles of…