Erica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer

P. J. Patterson, retired former prime minister.
02 Apr, 2026 0

‘Integrate or perish’

Retired former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has warned the 15-member Caribbean bloc, CARICOM, that it must “integrate or perish” in the face of mounting threats to international law,…
01 Apr, 2026 0

Mom says medical bill soaring as JC probes student assault

The leadership of Jamaica College was meeting up to late last night to deliberate on a violent incident involving students at the Old Hope Road, St Andrew-based institution. The episode left one boy…
From left: Enrique Martinez Gonzalez, rheumatology specialist; Yaselis Jacas Serrano, emergency nurse; and Humberto Alvarez Luna, neurology specialist, in an interview with The Gleaner at the Cuban Embassy in Kingston yesterday.
24 Mar, 2026 0

Doctors in departure lounge

As the curtain falls on more than half a century of medical cooperation with Jamaica, highly trained Cuban specialists will begin exiting the island this Thursday, departing on four chartered flights…
Dr Robert Mirales
23 Mar, 2026 0

Heading home with a heavy heart

Regarded as part of the ‘dream team’ of specialist ophthalmologists at St Joseph’s Hospital, Dr Roberto Mirales has spent years restoring sight to patients once condemned to darkness. Affectionately…
Cuban medics and their families were hosted by Osmond Brown and his wife, Karen, on Saturday at their home on Halifax Crescent in St Andrew.
23 Mar, 2026 0

‘Hasta la proxima’

Cuban medics are preparing to leave Jamaica this week and Jamaicans have been showing appreciation and solidarity with the men and women of the Caribbean island that has been wilting under the…
Senior Superintendent Wayne Cameron (left), chairman of the Jamaica Police Officers’ Association, and Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake.
23 Mar, 2026 0

Cameron on interdiction

The public dispute between Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake and Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Cameron has taken a new turn, with the senior officer – who also heads the Police Officers…
Opposition Leader Mark Golding.
17 Mar, 2026 0

Golding’s move

Despite not being able to implement policy decisions from his position in Parliament, much is expected when Opposition Leader Mark Golding makes his presentation this afternoon in the 2026–2027 Budget…
Dr Louis Moyston speaks on the theme ‘The resurgence of US Imperialism in the Region: Target Cuba’; during the Political Moment in the Caribbean Seminar held Wednesday evening at the Department of Government in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Uni
13 Mar, 2026 0

Moyston: Persad-Bissessar mirroring Dominica’s Charles in backing US over regional neighbours

Forty-three years after the late Dominican leader Eugenia Charles facilitated the 1983 American invasion of Grenada – by allowing her country to be used as a launching pad – Dr Louis Moyston, a…
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.
07 Mar, 2026 0

Cuban foreign ministry: Jamaica’s decision to end medical programme ‘disregarded’ history of fruitful, sustained collaboration

Expressing deep regret over the termination of its near 50-year-old bilateral medical brigade programme with Jamaica, Cuba in a statement yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the Jamaican people…