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Editorial | Encourage mediation and restorative justice

As Jamaica prepares to observe International Peace Day on Monday, this week’s reiteration by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck of his years-old proposal for a major expansion of conflict mediation services in Jamaica, including in communities and schools, is a welcome development.

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19 Sep, 2026 0

Tony Deyal | Cocoa tea

(This is to remember the great Colvin George Scott, the best Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter, born on September 3, 1949, and who died on March 11, 2025. And Zeno Obi Constance is by far the…
Members of the National Palace General Security Unit (USGPN) set up a security perimeter as Transitional Council President Laurent Saint-Cyr visits the headquarters of the armed forces in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, January, 2025.
19 Sep, 2026 0

Ronald Sanders | Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies, and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in…
18 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Doubling down on bad policy

Delroy Chuck, the justice minister, might wish to remind himself of this newspaper’s frequently expressed adage that what is worse than formulating bad policy is its implementation. But even worse…
A dungeon at Cape Coast Castle, a ‘slave castle’ used in the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, is seen in Cape Coast, Ghana.
18 Sep, 2026 0

Peter Espeut | Restorative justice and reparations

It is an established principle in ethics that, when a wrong is done, there must be reparations. On a personal level, God forgives sin but he also requires reparations for sin: extensive prayer and…
18 Sep, 2026 0

Kristen Gyles | Policing bathroom use

The recent bathroom incident involving a Grade Five George Headley Primary School student gave many of us unpleasant flashbacks. It is certainly not an unfamiliar occurrence. The child’s father told…
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17 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Fee waiver changes little

Were we cynical, The Gleaner might have interpreted the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s (JCPC) intervention to have the British government waive visa fees for overseas litigants not as a…
Morgan
17 Sep, 2026 0

Omar Morgan | Strengthening HIV response through community-led action

Jamaica has made significant strides in its response to HIV over the past two decades, but despite these gains, HIV remains a serious public health threat. According to the Ministry of Health and…
Residents of Cooper’s Pen in Trelawny staging a demonstration on August 22, 2026.
17 Sep, 2026 0

SSP Diaries | Echoes of frustration

There are several behaviours in society today that most citizens are tired of complaining about, and in some cases, their frustrations are near or have reached boiling point. When people are sick and…
The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model on December 8, 2023 in Boston. AP
16 Sep, 2026 0

Editorial | Regulating AI

The renewed fears of a potentially apocalyptic future caused by artificial intelligence (AI), and calls for a slowdown in the advance of these technologies, again highlight the need for a full and…