In Focus

Cawn’t sey mi neva dida warn yu! From as far back as April 13 ( Pick a Winner Wouldja Please?) I concluded after a constituency by constituency preview of the upcoming election: “St Elizabeth South-Western is the quintessential Bell Weather…. it...

Across the Caribbean, our health systems face a dual crisis that can no longer be treated in isolation. On one hand, decades of investment in the HIV response have delivered remarkable gains, resulting in more people living with HIV being on...

Even as Jamaicans were in the throes of a general election campaign an impending catastrophe was brewing in Caribbean waters. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was returned to power, defeating the People’s National Party (PNP) by a close margin of...

During this season in Jamaica’s history leading to the September 3 general election, so many questions are being asked by pollsters and pundits. They bring to mind the ‘fairy tales’ of the Grimm Brothers, especially Snow White, made famous in 1937...

Elections are upon us once more. Banners flutter, voices rise, and the spectacle of politics unfolds in familiar rhythms. Beneath this clamour, beneath the spectacle and the promises, there lies a void — a silence far more deafening than any noise...

Weeks before September 2020 when PM Holness felt his oats and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was actively sending signals that its horse was fit, furious and headed for the winner’s circle, a certain vibe was in the air indicating that a strong,...

A well-worn dictum of western capitalism admonishes, “time is money; don’t waste it!” This theme is at the heart of the transaction of exchanging labour for wages. Pervasive capital-labour practices were deemed exploitative by Karl Marx. This...

So, with campaign temperatures higher than the summer heat wave, The Old Ball and Chain is having political hot flashes. Old BC: Sigh. Old Grey Balls thinks he’s sooooo cute. But this unbearable heat requires intelligent distraction and...

We all know from the last election in 2020 that Jamaica recorded its lowest voter turnout in our history, with 37.8 per cent of the eligible voters casting their ballots on Election Day. Undoubtedly, this was a sad day for our electoral process,...

When safeguarded by the State, children are encouraged to exercise their civil and political rights. While these rights may manifest themselves differently from those of adults, they remain essential to a healthy democracy. The Jamaican...

Since 2016, the Jamaica Labour Party Government has led the most determined, coordinated, and sustained assault on violent crime in our modern history — and it is delivering real results. Murders fell eight per cent in 2023, nineteen per cent in...

In Jamaica, public consultations on projects with significant environmental and socio-economic impacts often feel like an afterthought — a box-ticking exercise rather than a genuine effort to involve the public in decision-making. These meetings...