Commentary

AI agents are artificial intelligence systems that can use other software tools and act on their own.
January 14, 2026

Editorial | Protect against AI sex pics

Although there are yet no complaints of the problem infecting Jamaica, the authorities should move to place beyond doubt that using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to create, and distribute,…
FILE - Danish military force participate in an exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, in September 2025.
January 14, 2026

Elizabeth Morgan | Jamaica needs a principled position

Last week, the question was posed in this column: are countries in the Western Hemisphere to become more subjugated US satellites? Are all 34 countries to further cower in fear? Attention has turned…
Samuel Braithwaite, lecturer, Department of Economics, UWI Mona.
January 14, 2026

Samuel Braithwaite | Venezuela, Guyana, and US global dominance

On Saturday, January 3, 2026, the eyes of the world turned to Venezuela. The response of CARICOM was pilloried. I have no issue with CARICOM’s terse diplomatic statement which touched the right notes…
Nand C. Bardouille, Ph.D., manager of The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean in the Institute of International Relations at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
January 14, 2026

Nand C. Bardouille | CARICOM faces a unity-defining moment

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is experiencing a difficult foreign policy-related moment, which variously impacts its 14 sovereign member states. America's use of military force in the…
Apple and Google join forces on AI...Why this quiet deal changes how Jamaica is searched
January 14, 2026

Why Apple and Google’s AI alliance changes how Jamaica is searched

When Apple and Google move in the same direction, the technology world pays attention. When they quietly align on artificial intelligence, it signals something much bigger than a product update. Apple…
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes
January 13, 2026

Editorial | Court should control budget

The central government’s continued control of where, when and how to undertake major capital works on courts cries out for a reform of, not only this anomaly, but of facets of the justice system.…
January 13, 2026

Gordon Robinson | Law and theology

Two Fridays ago Peter Espeut wrote an entertaining column ( The new builds on the old) challenging my advice to throw away the Old Testament. I’ve always maintained that, among The Gleaner’s mostly…
January 13, 2026

Michael Abrahams | The decline of empathy

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines empathy as “ The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of…
Nand C. Bardouille, Ph.D., manager of The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean in the Institute of International Relations at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
January 13, 2026

Nand Bardouille | US-Caricom relations: Year in review

As the then-outgoing Caribbean Community (Caricom) chair’s end of year message made clear, “[t]his year [i.e. 2025], Caricom made meaningful progress in advancing regional integration and economic…