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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas)
January 4, 2026

Other nations react to Maduro ouster

CARICOM leaders meet CARICOM says its Conference of Heads of Government met very early on Saturday following reports of military action in Venezuela. CARICOM says it is actively monitoring the…
This satellite image provided by Vantor shows )from left) the Fuerte Tiuna neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on December 22, 2025 and Fuerte Tiuna neighborhood after US strikes on Saturday.
January 4, 2026 by Lester Hinds

Clarke calls on Trump to cease military campaign

NEW YORK: Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette Clarke has called on the Trump administration to end its military action in Venezuela, labelling it a brazen affront to the rule of law and the United States…
Members of the Marine Police and the Jamaica Defence Force searching for Constable Shamar Grant and 13-year-old Arron Russell, who were swept away by strong currents in Hellshire, St Catherine, on New Year’s Day.
January 4, 2026 by Ruddy Mathison

NEW YEAR TRAGEDY

A New Year’s Day outing to the beach ended in tragedy for a Portmore family after a young woman, her teenage brother, and a policeman who was a family friend were swept away by strong currents at…
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…