Erica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer -

In this 2020 photo doctors form up during a farewell ceremony as they get ready to leave for Italy to help with the new coronavirus pandemic, in Havana, Cuba.
March 6, 2026 by Erica Virtue

HEALTHCARE HEARTBREAK: Tufton seeks to assure that contingencies in place to counter announced shutdown of 50-y-o bilateral agreement that allowed Cuban doctors to fill gaps in sector

Jamaica has closed the door on a 49-year-old bilateral arrangement with Cuba that sent hundreds of Cuban professionals to the island to bolster health infrastructure, bringing services to remote…
Neville Robinson (left), Trevor Scott (centre) and Lionel Dillon, members of Kingston College’s Class of 1981, look at a portrait of their late batchmate, Professor Christopher Charles, during a thanksgiving service for his life held yesterday at the Uni
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Professor Christopher Charles remembered, celebrated with promises to his son

His determination was insatiable. He was as outspoken as he was dependable. Those character traits were only trumped by his widely respected intellectual capacity to interrogate ideas, research,…
Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson speaking with The Gleaner at his St Andrew home on Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 by Erica Virtue

Patterson urges Jamaica, Jamaicans to rebuild with resilience for the future

Amid scenes and images of the widespread devastation to the island’s southwestern coastal parishes following the passage of the record-breaking Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, former Prime Minister PJ…