A decorated Jamaican public servant is asking the questions this government would rather you didn’t.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 31, 2026 - Patrick A. Beckford OD does not write often. When he does, you listen. A man who has earned his decorations through public service — not political patronage.
Beckford published a commentary this week that should land on the desk of every Cabinet minister, every Opposition parliamentarian, and every Jamaican in the diaspora who has ever sent a barrel home.He titled it simply: “Is My Island Home on the Wrong Path?” It is, in fact, a prosecutorial brief dressed as a question.
