Commentary
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Making of a Speaker
John Bercow, who served for a decade (2009-2019) as Speaker of the British parliament, became an iconic figure globally for his unique style for calling for “OOorrrrdeeerr” in the Commons and his…
December 9, 2025
Peter Espeut | Those ‘No Kings’ marches
Last Saturday will probably go down as the largest day of peaceful protest in the 250-year history of the United States of America (USA). Organisers said nearly seven million people – much more than…
December 9, 2025
Tony Deyal | Kaiso month, days and jokes like Bush
“I am going to bite dem young ladies pardner/ Like a hotdog or ah hamburger/ And if yuh know yuh thin doh be in a fright/ Is only big fat women ah going to bite. “ When I was three years old, I…
December 9, 2025
Kristen Gyles | Don’t tempt Melissa
Why are so many residents of flood-prone communities so insistent that they will not leave their homes, even in the face of hurricanes and other life-threatening natural disasters? Despite providing…
December 9, 2025
Ronald Sanders | Law, power, and the Caribbean’s test of unity in face of US military action
Four days after the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government reaffirmed the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad and Tobago startled the region with…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Tourism and growth
THE GOVERNMENT’S reaching for advice on how Jamaica can make tourism deliver more to the wider society is an obviously positive development. But while The Gleaner welcomes the move, we hope that the…
December 9, 2025
Basil Jarrett | What STATIN’s new census really tells us
AN INTERESTING report came out last week from the Institute of Family Studies in the USA, a right-wing organisation that seems to favour conservative causes such as anti-abortion and anti-gay rights.…
December 9, 2025
Massia Bailey| Managing impact of the learning environment on students
STUDENTS LEARN as much from what’s implied as from what’s explicitly taught. In many teacher preparation programmes, the concept of the formal and informal curriculum is introduced to emphasise that…
December 9, 2025
Editorial | Reset Patterson Report
BUT FOR the fact that he shadows the portfolio for the Opposition, Damion Crawford could be forgiven for being seemingly unaware that the Orlando Patterson report on education transformation was…