Commentary

Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness (left) and Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition Mark Golding at the 45th Annual National Leadership Prayer Breakfast.
October 2025

Editorial | Serious Vale Royal Talks

Happily, it was all a misunderstanding. Everyone misapprehended Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ intention when he appeared to relegate Opposition Leader Mark Golding, negotiating first with the justice…
In this file photo, Akaycia Brown (left) and Melecia Bennett stand in front of a mural of map of Jamaica and the country’s National Heroes.
October 2025

Peter Espeut | Old ways die hard

“Slavery is indeed scotched in our colonies, but it is not killed; its name is changed: its character remains to be changed hereafter”. [Special Magistrate Richard Robert…
Rikki Jai
October 2025

Tony Deyal | Calypso festival, light and spirit

There was a young woman called Starkie. Who had an affair with a darky. The result of her sins. Was quadruplets, not twins One black and one white and two khaki.
Kristen Gyles writes: Many women in today’s Jamaica suffer from ‘Superwoman Syndrome’.
October 2025

Kristen Gyles | Prince charming and the damsel in financial distress

Recently, I had a conversation with a colleague that forced me to rethink the way I view gender roles especially within the context of a rapidly changing society. He asked me, “If you were married to…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video.
October 2025

Ronald Sanders | A new world order — or formal admission of the old?

The world has long spoken of a “rules-based order” as though the law itself held dominion over power. Yet, behind the diplomatic courtesies and the fine print of charters, it was power that wrote the…
Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell
October 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…
A woman carrying a child walks away with food from the World Food Program (WFP) at the Jean Marie Vincent High School which has been turned into a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in the Tabarre neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in Jul
October 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…
Workers harvest cabbage on a field less than 10 miles from the border with Mexico, in Holtville, California.
October 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…
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen.
October 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…