In Focus

This satellite image provided by NASA, shows icebergs that formed through an ice shelf collapse. Dozens of Antarctica’s ice shelves, floating extensions of glaciers, showed significant shrinking between 1997 and 2021.
February 15, 2026

Qu Dongyu | As glaciers melt, world’s hidden water banks are at risk

Glaciers – the world’s hidden water banks - are a source of life for billions. The seasonal melt from mountains and glaciers sustains some of the world’s most important rivers such as the Indus, the…
This February 10 photo shows sitting of the house of representatives.
February 15, 2026

Gordon Robinson | Cover up by legislation?

The latest affront to Constitutional governance was conducted in the Senate on Friday February 6 when a proposed Bill to amend the Financial Investigation Division Act (FIDA) was passed into law. The…
University Hospital of the West Indies
February 15, 2026

Mark Wignall | Transformation in patient care needed now

The doctor wears on her sleeves her need to see and experience the sort of cultural transformation needed at the The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) “... it [UHWI] must remain steadfast…
In this 2019 photo dancers are seen performing at the Grand Gala celebrations.
February 15, 2026

Sabrina Barnes | Cultural retention in Jamaica

There is an uncomfortable habit in Jamaica: we mourn loudly, memorialise briefly, and then move on until the next cultural giant dies. Each passing reignites the same questions about legacy,…
Newly elected members of parliament at their swearing-in at Gordon House.
February 8, 2026

Jalil Dabdoub | ‘Joke ting’ governance

Jamaica has a governance problem that cannot be ignored. The State repeatedly passes laws without first constructing the legal, institutional, physical and constitutional infrastructure necessary to…
February 8, 2026

Gordon Robinson | We are not serious

Three Sundays ago ( What the hell the Police can do) I took a swipe at our justice system. I wrote: “Supreme Court publishes general clearance rates (56 per cent in 2025) but no statistics regarding…
February 8, 2026

Dennis Minott | Jamaica is courting an educational depression – and the clock is ticking

The Gleaner’s recent editorial on restoring education ought to trouble every Jamaican who claims to care about the country’s future. The attendance figures it reports are not merely disappointing;…
In this October 2025 photo police officers are seen at a scene of an accident, as a wrecker removes the Toyota Hiace minibus that crashed along West-East leg of Highway 2000, close to the Vineyard Toll Plaza.
February 8, 2026

Mark Shields | Jamaica reduced murders – road deaths can be reduced too

In the wake of the recent tragedy on the Font Hill main road, Vic-Chairman of National Road Safety Council Lucien Jones is right to warn that 2026 will bring more “avoidable tragedy” unless Jamaica…
A photo of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a US Border Patrol officer, is displayed at the shooting scene in Minneapolis.
February 8, 2026

Mark Wignall | Extreme aggression and death

My lawyer friend in Miami greets me from what he calls upside down America. “The flu is making the rounds here in Miami and it is not nice. You caught it recently and you definitely know that. I hope…