Commentary
December 9, 2025
Editorial | CARICOM and the US armada
Despite apparently different perspectives among its members on America’s aggressive naval posture in the southern Caribbean, The Gleaner is surprised that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders…
December 9, 2025
Basil Jarrett | From cholera to child soldiers: Remembering Haiti’s children
I REMEMBER my high-school history lessons on Haiti. Once proudly declared to be the first black republic and first independent state in the Caribbean, Haiti now owns the unenviable title of being the…
December 9, 2025
Qu Dongyu | Let us be better together
This year’s World Food Day marks 80 years since the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), whose mandate from the outset has been to ensure humanity’s freedom…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Clarify IC appointments
As was implied by his office, this newspaper appreciates that the governor general, Sir Patrick Allen, is not obliged to explain his actions – or inaction – to the public, unless he is specifically…
December 9, 2025
Elizabeth Morgan | China supports the multilateral system
IN THE lead-up to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the concern was and continues to be whether the multilateral system created 80 years ago will hold or whether it will disintegrate. It was…
December 9, 2025
Norris McDonald | Jamaica’s bauxite policy, RUSAL’s perks, and Manley’s fight for tax justice!
IN 2024, RUSAL Engineering & Tech Centre, LLC, a subsidiary of the Russian-owned RUSAL corporation, filed a patent in the United States for a method to extract scandium from bauxite red mud and…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | The AI protocols in courts
Last month’s promulgation by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes of protocols for the use of AI-generated documents in court proceedings advances his long-standing advocacy for the use of artificial…
December 9, 2025
Michael Abrahams | Why do people become suicidal?
Whenever someone dies by suicide, one of the most common reactions is to ask the question “Why?”. Most of us have never thought of taking our own lives. Persons who do, or attempt to do so, are…
December 9, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Grow older; never grow old
Today “senior citizen care” has become a national concern. 1970s family planning policies kept our population below 3,000,000. But, consequently, it’s an ageing population. If migration is brought…