'The Holness administration has delivered significant infrastructure projects, navigated the pandemic, and maintained macroeconomic stability under an IMF programme. These are not small things. But the question posed by the composite animal thesis is not whether the government has accomplished anything. It is whether the manner of governing—the centralization of discretion, the impatience with oversight, the erosion of institutional courage—is creating a political architectu

Then-Security Minister Dudley Thompson (PNP) famously opined that "no angels died at Green Bay." He further claimed that the absence of recovered firearms from the deceased was due to the "superior firepower" of the military’s "electric guns," which supposedly shot the gangsters' weapons from their grasp, propelling them into deep waters over 50 metres away. I found this narrative mathematically and mechanically absurd. My consultations with ballistics experts & colleagues a

what becomes of civic engagement when truth itself is strained in the nation’s highest forum? Espeut speaks to a troubling contempt for the Jamaican people. Gyles urges deeper, more meaningful civic participation beyond performative gestures and political patronage. Both are right. But there is a prior condition—one that must underpin both respect and engagement. It is accuracy. It is truth. For only the second time in my longish life, I feel compelled to state that a m

There are moments in the life of a people—and of a world—when language itself begins to falter. Words we once trusted feel lighter than they should. Titles we once respected begin to echo without substance. April 2026 is such a moment. As the “War of Whimsy, Lust, and Criminal Impulse” involving Israel and the United States against Iran unfolds, we are compelled—whether we welcome it or not—to examine not only the conduct of great powers, but the moral posture of smaller s

A leader who voluntarily discloses, who invites independent audit, who answers hard questions without defensiveness, strengthens legitimacy. Transparency builds resilience. When scrutiny is welcomed rather than resisted, trust deepens. Conversely, when scrutiny is framed as hostility, when legitimate questions are dismissed as partisan attacks, polarisation intensifies. The public discourse coarsens.