Commentary

Earl Jarrett, chairman of the ECJ.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | ECJ must speak

This newspaper has no question about the competence of Glasspole Brown or his capacity to speak with authority about the technical aspects of the conduct of elections in Jamaica. But when it comes to…
Trump ... destroying the international rules-based system, flawed though it may be.
December 9, 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | Is indiscipline stifling development?

Heeding discipline shows the way to life – The book of Proverbs Without discipline there is no life. – Katharine Hepburn
Golding ... shows promise – brains, steadiness, and a willingness to be his own man.
December 9, 2025

Norris R. McDonald | ‘Ketchie-Shubbie’ politics, the youth and PNP’s identity crisis!

ON SEPTEMBER 3, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) secured another term. From his vantage point, the victory felt hard-fought and well-earned. Opposition Leader Mark…
Dorey McPherson awaiting the arrival of firefighters to free her trapped leg after several failed efforts by passers-by who rushed to her aid.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Morant Bay, Negril and small things

Morant Bay and Negril are at different ends of Jamaica. The former is in the east, on the island’s south coast. It is the capital of the parish of St Thomas, which lags the rest of Jamaica in…
In this January photo, heavy presence of security forces is seen on Wellington Street in Spanish Town, after the fatal shooting of alleged don ‘Thickman’ during a police operation.
December 9, 2025

Michael Abrahams | ‘Good’ shootouts are bad

Last week, there was a deadly shootout in Mandeville where a man shot and killed another after a dispute, rumoured to be about payment for eggs. The gunman fled the scene, but the security forces…
People are seen waiting in Edgewater to cast their votes.
December 9, 2025

Gordon Robinson | The essence of passengers

It was two weeks after Apocrypha’s general elections but Oma D’unn was still busy fielding electoral complaints. Regular visitors to that fantasyland where all politicians are friends remember retired…
Gleaner editorial writes: While Jamaica’s size (with a population of nearly three million) helps to give it CARICOM's third largest economy (US$21.41 billion, according to the IMF) in nominal terms, it lags on a per capita basis ... A skewed income dist
December 9, 2025

Editorial | The urgency of growth

Anyone with even a passing interest in investments and how long it will take their capital to double at a specific rate of return is likely to be aware of the Rule of 70. It is a simple tool based in…
The New York Young Republicans Club holds a vigil for Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk at Madison Square Park on Friday, September 12, in New York.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | Lesson for the United States, Brazil

Two events in other places this week were raw reminders that for all of its failings, there are important things about Jamaica that are worthy of celebration. Not least of these is the island’s…
In this file photo, a group of students is seen standing at their school gate.
December 9, 2025

Ronald Thwaites | Defeating ourselves

When expediency trumps principle, when selfishness or drunken power overtake self-restraint and mutuality, tragic damage is done to the human experience. Share with me some local and international…