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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…
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…
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…
Representational image of sliced white bread.
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…
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…
Mickel Jackson, executive director of Jamaicans for Justice, at a peaceful protest calling for an end to police violence in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, last April.
January 4, 2026 by Andre Williams

2025: The policing year written in blood

The year 2025 will be remembered as a paradoxical year for Jamaica as despite recording a historic low in overall murders, the past 12 months have been overshadowed by a grim countertrend: an…
ZULU WARRIOR, ridden by Demar Williams, wins the Security Department Trophy over five furlongs in a brisk 58 seconds at Caymanas Park yesterday.
January 4, 2026 by Ainsley Walters

Zulu Warrior runs away with Security Department Trophy

ZULU WARRIOR yesterday made amends for his December 13 loss to Canadian ATLANTIC CONVOY at six furlongs, powering away from ANOTHER ONE to beat late-closing American, CHAMPION BUBBLER, by almost six…