In Focus

A government supporter holds an image of President Nicolás Maduro during a women’s march to demand his return in Caracas, Venezuela.
January 11, 2026

Imani Tafari-Ama | Return of 21st century piracy?

For those who believed that the age of imperial adventurism and piracy was confined to the history books — age-old memories of the Barbary Coast or the scramble for Africa — the events unfolding in…
Gordon Robinson writes: Based on Jamaica’s history and current reality, is there another way to reduce murders than police targeting and killing suspected murderers after being “challenged”?
January 4, 2026

Horace Chang | Turning the tide on crime – moment of national reckoning

As we reflect on 2025 and look ahead to a new year, we do so at a moment of profound national significance. For the first time in more than three decades, Jamaica has recorded fewer than 700 murders…
FILE - Debris surrounds damaged homes along the Black River, St Elizabeth, on Thursday, October 30, 2025 in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.
January 4, 2026

Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | After Hurricane Melissa, Black River waits

I was warned about what I would see before heading to Black River, but no image of the damage from Hurricane Melissa fully captured the devastation, and nothing prepared me for the horror of the…
Peter Espeut writes: If you agree to decriminalise sex between “consenting” minors, then you will have walked into the logical trap ...
January 4, 2026

Africka Stephens | Young love on trial: Criminalise or guide?

Last week’s story in The Gleaner - “When Kids Get Caught — Heartache as grandmother struggles with teen grandson’s sexual assault charges” - laid bare a heartbreaking but avoidable consequence of our…
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January 4, 2026

Feyi Fawehinmi | Bread upon the waters

Jamaica knows the Atlantic story too well. Between the early slave trade and abolition, somewhere between 600,000 and 900,000 Africans were forced onto the island. Shipping records show that a…
Gordon Robinson writes: Legal education in Jamaica has forever been flawed and that 2024 contretemps was another symptom of that disease.
January 4, 2026

Gordon Robinson | Teaching to think not pass exams

I know this is a New Year. But will Jamaica take a new approach to overcome the fundamental obstacle to its progress? It’s neither political nor religious. The one issue blocking Jamaica from success…
A rescue worker climbs onto the roof of an apartment building damaged after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine.
January 4, 2026

Seifudein Adem | It is us today: Lessons of Abyssinia and Ukraine

A useful parallel can be drawn in contemporary international relations between 1935, when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia), and 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. The…
January 4, 2026

Ethon Lowe | God, Hurricane Melissa and same-sex couples

In my customary perusal of the Sunday Gleaner, December 7, two interesting articles caught my eye. The first questioned God’s purpose following Melissa’s untimely destruction of a country, which I…
Floyd Morris writes: Government must make a concentrated effort to build accessible sidewalks in towns and communities in the post-Hurricane Melissa era.
December 28, 2025

Floyd Morris | Integrate accessibility and inclusion for more resilient post-Melissa Jamaica

Jamaica has agreed to a number of international agreements that bind it to providing an accessible and inclusive environment for persons with disabilities. The United Nations Convention on the Rights…