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January 11, 2026
Garth Rattray | Stop HIV testing for work medicals
I was drawn to The Gleaner editorial of Saturday January 3, ‘HIV treatment at crossroads’. It outlined and went into depth regarding Dr Richard Amenyah’s warning that “some of the global gains against…
January 11, 2026
Orville Taylor | Reality cheque: Monroe doctrine
Sunday cornmeal and peas, cooked with coconut milk. No chicken from the store or corner shop. The rooster, ‘Bigga’, was sacrificed to feed us. A beautiful Dominica fowl with black, white and grey…
January 11, 2026
Floyd Morris | Dementia, disability and development
Approximately 50 years ago, in the rustic rural community of Bailey’s Vale in St Mary, I was exposed to the frightening challenges of dementia. My grandmother was diagnosed with the disease that would…
January 11, 2026
by Christopher Thomas
‘We’re just learning to make sex visible’
WESTERN BUREAU: Young people the world over are having significantly less sex than generations before them did at their age, multiple studies have shown. Sexual activity has been proven to affect…
January 11, 2026
Four J’can women who conquered fashion in 2025
Four fascinating Jamaican women. One magnificent year of achievements. As Sunday Lifestyle looks back on the year that was, international designers Rachel Scott and Grace Wales Bonner, avant-garde…
January 11, 2026
Blue Mountain Coffee Festival teams up with Ja Food and Drink Festival
Coffee has never been just a drink, so it felt perfectly fitting that on Blue Mountain Coffee Day, Jamaica chose to reimagine one of its most seductive exports not simply as something to sip but as…
January 11, 2026
Top lifestyle stories for 2025
In a year marked by challenges, Lifestyle readers chose hope – and love – again and again. Our Top 20 stories of 2025 reveal an unmistakable theme: Island Wedding reigned supreme as tales of…
January 11, 2026
by Lee Cronin
Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages – ‘chemputation’ can bring it into the digital world
Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials, and batteries all depend on our ability to make new molecules. But discovery of new substances is slow, expensive, and…
January 11, 2026
Top reggae and dancehall artistes for 2025
This year, as we sat with our panellists, Sean ‘Contractor Edwards and Claude Mills, to reflect on and select the top artistes for 2025, they were asked to ‘speak the truth and shame the devil’. And…