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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…
A woman cries during a rally of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday.
January 4, 2026

VENEZUELA’S MADURO OUSTED

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, United States President Donald Trump said Saturday…
Rohan Nurse
January 4, 2026

Nurse expects West Indies U19s to do well at World Cup

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): With the start of the ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup less than two weeks away, an optimistic West Indies Under-19 head coach Rohan Nurse says he expects the team to…
Senegal’s Sadio Mane (right) drifts past Sudan’s Sheddy Ezeldin during the Africa Cup of Nations round-of-16 football match in Tangier, Morocco, yesterday.
January 4, 2026

Mané-inspired Senegal reach Africa Cup quarters

RABAT, Morocco (AP): Sadio Mané led Senegal to the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations after a 3-1 win over Sudan in Tangier yesterday. The 2019 and 2022 African footballer of the year chased…