Commentary

Debris littered the town of Lewisville, in St. Elizabeth, more than a month after the passage of Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.
December 17, 2025

Editorial | UDC and NRRA

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…
A man is detained by immigration agents at a car wash on Friday, August 15, in Montebello, California.
December 17, 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | The USA and immigration: Such hypocrisy!

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…
The Alpha Boys Band performs.
December 17, 2025

Lance Neita | Rejoicing over you with singing

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”.
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December 17, 2025

Peter Polack | Caribbean vows: In sickness and health

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…
Gleaner editorial writes: But the [NaRRA] bill has serious problems. While it gets the mission broadly right, it does not yet meet the criteria public bodies in Jamaica actually need to be successful.
December 16, 2025

Editorial | Hold Parliament’s bosses accountable

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,…
December 16, 2025

Ruthlyn James | Redefining student engagement assistants in education system

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…
A school girl uses her phone as she walks with a group of kids in Sydney.
December 16, 2025

Gordon Robinson | Communication crisis

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…
Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dana Morris Dixon.
December 15, 2025

Editorial | Early childhood crisis

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…
Gleaner editorial writes: But the [NaRRA] bill has serious problems. While it gets the mission broadly right, it does not yet meet the criteria public bodies in Jamaica actually need to be successful.
December 15, 2025

Ronald Thwaites | Why civility matters

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…