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Published:Saturday | December 20, 2025 | 12:05 AM

For the great Mighty Sparrow and those who followed him to develop the mix in Trinidad...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 2:40 PM

The Daily Gleaner of November 20, 2025, ran an article entitled ‘Earth Today | Running on Empty’, which featured a photograph of the destroyed teacher’s cottage at Brompton Primary School in St Elizabeth. I lived there in the 1960s with my late...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 10:47 AMJemimah Njuki and Ndey Oley Cole/Contributors -

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign is an international campaign led by the United Nations to challenge violence against women and girls. From 25 November - 10 December, this year’s 16 Days campaign targets how to end...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:06 AM

A few weeks ago, the Consul General of The Bahamas visited Jamaica to support the hurricane relief efforts. The military team which accompanied her did something that was very eye opening. While people across western parishes were relying on...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:06 AM

“May the light of Christian hope illumine every man and woman, as a message of God’s love addressed to all!” — Pope Francis The late Pope Francis declared 2025 to be a Year of Jubilee. This was not an unexpected declaration: in the Catholic...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 9:14 AM

The United States hasn’t publicly provided a detailed account of its reasoning for placing visa restrictions on Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica over the operation of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programmes. However, there is a palpable sense...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 2:34 PM

The holiday season is often painted as an idyllic vision of rest, conjuring images of warm beverages and bountiful time with loved ones. But many people have trouble unwinding at this time of year. Why do the December holidays offer the promise of...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 10:58 AM

Migration is a powerful driver of progress – lifting economies, connecting cultures, and benefiting countries of origin and destination alike. Yet when migration is poorly governed or misrepresented, it can fuel hate and division, endangering the...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:06 AM

When Donald Trump won the US presidential election more than a year ago, this newspaper stressed the good sense of the small nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) coordinating their policies to avoid, as much as possible, having their...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Every December 18, International Migrants Day invites us to reflect on the journeys of millions who leave home in search of safety, dignity, and opportunity. For Jamaica and the Caribbean, migration is more than a statistic – it is a living story,...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:05 AM

As much as our world may be viewed as an independent entity, the nations that comprise it are very dependent upon each other. There is evidence to show that the supply of resources needed for the sustenance of human life is already negatively...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 11:21 AM

The truth is often like a wife who abandons her husband in hospital, a friend who does not return your calls for help, bankers who refuse you after the 243rd mortgage payment and governments who ignore promises the day after election. When the...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

As an early and aggressive promoter of clean-up brigades for debris left behind by Hurricane Melissa, this newspaper appreciates the Government’s recent accelerated effort to remove the huge mounds of garbage in badly hit areas. Nonetheless, The...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

The plaque inside the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour has the sonnet by Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus, which includes the lines: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” The Statue of Liberty...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

I did not know that God sings until I came across a verse in the Bible, Zephaniah 3:17. which says that the Lord will “rejoice over you with singing”. I did know that the gift of singing is one precious talent He gives that can light up your world...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:06 AM

So, on December 10, Wonderland finally came to Alice as Australia banned social media for users younger than 16. The compound idiocy of the ban was underscored in a statement by Meta regional policy director Mia Garlick: “For all our users [under...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:06 AM

In classrooms today, one figure sits quietly at the margins: not teacher, not therapist, yet essential to a child’s learning journey. Commonly known as ‘shadows’, these individuals were originally intended to serve as temporary bridges, supporting...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:06 AM

They mightn’t have cost the big sums that occasionally trigger an angry national venting. However, the latest management foozles at Parliament, including rookie bungling of procurement contracts, suggest the need for a deeper review, and probable...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 2:01 PM

If you ever wanted to experience ALL the political seasons in one year, then 2025 was the perfect opportunity to get on that political roller coaster of chaos and mayhem. It’s been terrifying enough to make you wish you never got on the ride in the...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:07 AM

Asked what he felt was the major fault line of American culture at this time, retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy named the absence of civility – defined as the practised respect – first for self (very different from self-obsession) and...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 8:59 AM

Even before Hurricane Melissa caused major destruction in the west of the island, early childhood education, like the rest of Jamaica’s education system, was in deep crisis. The storm has made the situation far worse, demanding immediate, and...

Published:Monday | December 15, 2025 | 12:07 AM

When the prime minister recently cautioned Jamaicans not to rush into building concrete roofs after Hurricane Melissa, did he offer wise advice? His point was simple: do not trade one hazard for another. To understand this deeper, we must...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:06 AM

A surname like mine often makes me the butt of corny jokes. However, having a dressmaker mother, and more than basic competence with a sewing machine and scissors, the joke is on those who asked me if I can fabricate garments. Even more...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 1:27 PM

With impressive speed, the Jamaican Government and its international financial partners announced a US$6.7 billion package to finance the island’s reconstruction from the destruction from Hurricane Melissa. The Category 5 storm, packing sustained...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Nowadays, I find myself either quoting or referring to my father (of blessed memory). He was a visionary trapped in and limited by a flawed bureaucratic system ... a system that still exists today. From way back in the early 1980s, he used to say...

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