In an atmosphere still unsettled by previous integrity investigations, new Sunday Gleaner revelations questioning financial propriety have emerged like a slow-moving landslide—ominous, destabilising, and smothering public confidence. This is no longer about partisan politics. This is about civic oxygen—the very air we need to breathe as citizens. Arendt warned that the greatest danger lay not in the monstrous, but in the mundane. And here in Jamaica, the mundane has become t

The time for polite debate is over. It is now a matter of survival. we write today to call—firmly and without apology—for the criminalisation of climate change denial across Jamaica and all CARICOM member states. Moreover, we urge that the deliberate misrepresentation of non-renewable energy technologies as "green" or "renewable" must henceforth be treated under the law as criminal fraud, prosecutable in open court....

Our business schools must urgently recalibrate their mission, not as factories for conventional managers, but as midwives for a sustainable, resilient, and just economy tailor-made for both island and mountainous realities throughout the region.

Let us remember: 1. Puerto Rico’s Bonus Reactor shut down in disgrace. 2. Cuba’s reactor project collapsed amid geopolitical complications. 3. The Dominican Republic mothballed its nuclear ambitions. 4. Haiti in its heyday, wisely, never attempted one. Instead of chasing nuclear mirages, Jamaica must double down on proven, scalable, and socially embedded renewables:..

It is not hyperbole to say that energy is destiny. And for too long, Jamaica's destiny has been dictated not by the people, nor by the imperatives of justice or resilience, but by monopolistic inertia. The 2027 expiration of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo)'s all-island licence is no mere bureaucratic milestone—it is a generational pivot point.

Wayne joined the T&T Police Service, graduating at the very top of his class, and serving faithfully in some of the most dangerous zones of North Trinidad. Roughly 30 years ago, he heeded God’s call to full-time ministry and took up the pastorate of a Nazarene congregation in Laventille, one of the most crime-plagued, drug-ravaged, gang-controlled, and economically underprivileged districts in the country. There was no fanfare or applause.Yet for 30 years, Wayne gave his

In many congregations that proudly wear the labels “Bible-believing” or “Spirit-filled” we now see Jesus’ name being used to justify: • Nationalist agendas that criminalise foreigners and asylum-seekers; • Uncritical loyalty to leaders who embody greed, cruelty, or deceit; •Hostility to science, learning, or reform, all waved away as “worldly”; • Prosperity gospel peddling, now bordering on spiritual racketeering. Such distortions of faith are not rare. They are daily

🎤How should the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) proceed if it is serious about liberating the country from decades of monopolistic inefficiency and fossil-fuel dependency?

What does a typical day look like in the belly of a political mastodon? Whether stomping about in Washington or snorting through the corridors of Gordon House, these lumbering beasts of governance rise early — to gorge on privilege, wash down hypocrisy, and belch platitudes before midday. Chef's Note: All mastodon meals must be....: Rich in ego Free from transparency Fortified with taxpayer funds Heavily processed by Chang-Campbell-certified mash dung machines...

The right test can propel a student into the Ivy League, the University of Oxford or Cambridge, or a United World College. And sadly, the wrong choice—too often made for reasons of local convenience—can leave untapped potential on the table. In content and design, one of these tests (ACT or SAT), aligns better with global Common Core standards and the kind of critical reasoning and data analysis that Caribbean students practise daily....

If the Record Fails, the Student Falls. Across Jamaica’s and CARICOM's high school landscape, there are all too many brass-faced counterparts: institutions that prioritize trophy-winning quiz teams and sporting accolades plus strange and unjust peculiarity over student growth, masking indifference with performative achievement while leaving genuine learning and compassionate upliftment behind. One might expect that a national education review— would spotlight the glaring weak

Last Sunday's  compelling Gleaner editorial reflecting on MAGA's coercing impact on American academic freedom prompted me to revisit and refine my original proposal. With A-QuEST having mentored/coached 11 Rhodes Scholars and over 1,300 PhDs and other doctorates (overwhelmingly drawn from my A-QuEST International Students educated in the USA) over the past 45 years, and, significantly, with Jamaica and CARICOM facing Haiti's urgent capacity-rebuilding needs, now humbly offer

From Dennis A Minott, A-QuEST

No urgent moves to protect children from abuse. No credible lunge to conclude the repair of the hospital in Montego Bay. No rebuke of foreign tyrants, even as they commit mass slaughter. No vision for diplomacy—only disarray, smiles, flawless make-up, and a remarkably Pygmalean first name. Instead, we see photo ops. And silence. And a parade of parliamentarians whose public piety hides private greed. We see the steady withering of every noble value on which Jamaica was bui

Judas used a kiss. Jamaica uses deportation. For 30 pieces of silver — filthy lucre in our time — we have betrayed Haitians seeking refuge, dignity, and kinship among us. We bave uncharacteristically turned them back into the hands of their tormentors, without hearing, without compassion, without even a pause to remember who we once were. This is not poetry. This is refoulement — the forced return of asylum seekers to danger without due process. It violates the 1951 Refuge

One needn’t be a cynic to see that something vital is fading. Our democracy, once animated by active citizens and accountable institutions, now teeters on the edge of indifference. It’s not collapsing in a blaze. It’s been slowly hemorrhaging. A quiet, patient death by a thousand cuts. The Cuts are Numerous and Deep.

Until we smash the 'pools' that deny students choice, every education reform will be lipstick on a corpse. The Patterson Report missed the mark. Again. The 2021 Patterson Commission Report on education reform in Jamaica was a well-meaning and long-overdue initiative. It offered broad recommendations on governance, teacher training, early childhood education, and funding. However, it overlooked a critical issue that affects students daily the widespread use of "pools" in high

Accountability must be swift. As with a surgeon lancing a wound, credible allegations- whether nepotism, enrichment, or abuse-must trigger immediate action. Delay breeds suspicion, silence breeds cynicism. Reports from the Auditor General and Integrity Commission must not be ignored. Consequences must follow, or investigative institutions become ceremonial, and public faith withers.

Here in Jamaica, we live in an era where a slim slab of glass, silicon, and plastic dominates much of our lives. It’s always in our...

The distressing account of—two women discarded like old rags after decades of Loyal Service—is a damning indictment of Jamaica’s moral decay