Commentary

Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
Updated 18 hours ago

Editorial | Interlocutor for Kamla

For supporters of regional integration, as expressed by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), 2025 was, as Queen Elizabeth II characterised 1992, an annus horribilis.

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Chelsea Manning, bottom second left, and protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace block traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of US Senator Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the US-Israel war with Iran and opposing US weapons support,
Updated 12 hours ago

Elizabeth Morgan | War – what is it good for?

Since January, it seems that the news has been full of war, military action, more than usual. We have had military activities continuing in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, the Caribbean,…
Norris McDonald
Published 23 hours ago

Norris R. McDonald | Poverty, ghetto survival, and land tenure struggles

Smoke curls from a wattle-and-daub, thatched-roof kren-kren in Epsom, St Mary, as the sun rises over terraced hillsides. Descendants of the Coromantee Maroons survive here through discipline, memory,…
Keenan Falconer, economist with the UN Jamaican Economy Panel
Published 11 hours ago

Keenan Falconer | The financial sector: Striking the right balance

The Gleaner's Editorial on Monday, April 13, made an important intervention as it discussed the ideal role of the financial sector in advancing Jamaica's development prospects.
Dr Kevin Brown, the president of the University of Technology.
April 14, 2026

Editorial | New language for TVET

Global trends underline the logic of renewed calls for Jamaica to strengthen technical and vocational education and training (TVET). However, it is not clear that policymakers, educators, or other…
Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican.
April 14, 2026

Michael Abrahams | Christian perspectives on the Iran war

On February 28, the US and Israel launched an unprovoked bombing attack on Iran. The country was engaged in negotiations regarding its nuclear programme at the time, but the aggressors claimed it was…
Mark Malabver, president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association.
April 14, 2026

Gordon Robinson | The essence of reporting

In Apocrypha, our favourite fantasyland farther away than Artemis II travelled, political consultant Oma D’unn was having a busy week. Last week, Opposition Party Promises Not Performance (PNP)…
A long-standing question facing first-time buyers, whether to approach a real estate agent or a lender first, has taken on new urgency in Jamaica following a major policy shift aimed at improving access to housing for key workers and younger buyers.
April 14, 2026

Who comes first in a property deal? NHT rate cuts reshape the answer

…New NHT incentives and rising costs are changing how Jamaicans must prepare to enter the housing market A long-standing question facing first-time buyers, whether to approach a real estate agent or…
A Pakistani official is seen during the arrival of the US Vice President JD Vance for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad.
April 13, 2026

Editorial | Physical goods still matter

There is now in place a fragile two-week ceasefire in the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran. While the world anxiously awaits the outcome of negotiations between the US and Iran,…
A resident checks damage to buildings as she walks near charred cars, at the site of Wednesday’s Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
April 13, 2026

Ronald Thwaites | Stick-ups and splash-downs

“How can you clasp your hands to pray when they are full of blood?” This was the challenge posed by Pope Leo to his fellow Americans and their increasingly murderous government. Of course the same…