A man discovered a woman secretly living in his cupboard after setting up a camera. Joe Cummings took action after noticing that somebody had been stealing his food and urinating in his kitchen sink and found that he had an unwelcome visitor in his...
A Canadian politician who appeared naked during a virtual parliamentary meeting has been left red-faced once again. William Amos made headlines earlier this year when he appeared in the buff on an internal feed for a House of Commons meeting and...
OXFORD – The World Health Assembly met last week amid a slew of proposals – most recently from the United Nations Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response – to create stronger, enforceable global rules for tackling...
CAMBRIDGE – For over a century, the size and role of the state has been a hotly debated issue and is so once again in the wake of COVID-19. Should governments involve themselves in ever more areas of social and commercial life, or does more...
JERUSALEM – With the cease-fire ending the latest Israeli-Palestinian confrontations in Gaza and the West Bank, the question now is how to secure a credible path toward peace. To have any hope of success, Palestine’s economy will need...
PARIS – The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that we can no longer treat seemingly faraway crises as distant problems. What happens anywhere can affect people everywhere. That is why addressing the impact and legacy of the pandemic in Africa...
CAMBRIDGE – Suppose you are a policymaker in a developing economy. Your country’s income per capita is a fraction of that in the United States, Western Europe, or Japan. Your economy has grown over the past 30 years, but so have richer...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line up of cartoons as...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … This week past certainly threw up Dickensian images of contrasting experiences in Jamaica. On the one hand, there are those hamstrung by the measures put in place by the government of...
Jamaica’s education sector has taken a beating with a projected 120,000 students lost to the social distancing fighting COVID-19 has necessitated. However, there are stories of those who have traversed the uncertain plain of online study to...
A leader of the dancehall, Agent Sasco, last week put a smile on the faces of those watching the events of child month stand in stark contrast to the message behind the celebration of the month. With reports of abuse racking up this month, at the...
The battle lines have been drawn between People’s National Party (PNP) political activist, Karen Cross, and her party’s General Secretary Dayton Campbell, even to the point of pulling president Mark Golding to break a deadlock into...
According to football pundits, a World Cup every two years, though a wonderful thing for fans of the sport to behold, would not be a great idea for an Island nation like Jamaica, which struggles to come up with funding to compete in the global...
With the end of child month fast approaching and with a myriad of stories talking about the abuse of children, it was certainly a welcome change when medical student, Dowesha Williams, began putting in practice the Hippocratic oath to do no harm...
Jamaica’s social problems worried Greta Fowler because of how tightly crime and ravaging poverty gripped the nation. Though perturbed, she was not hopeless. Fowler believed theatre could diffuse the unrest in society and at the same time,...
Senator Dr Saphire Longmore is a true nation builder. There she was in 2017, fighting HER2-positive breast cancer, undergoing intense treatment, reconsidering the future of her two sons and coming to grips with a new reality. With her life on the...
While travelling up the mountainside in Jamaica, Lauren Le Franc saw many dedicated women producing some of the “best” coffee. She expected communities to reap the benefits of having hard-working small farmers and quality beans. She was...
Kamilah Taylor is an experienced engineer. It’s her job to come up with elegant and simple solutions to problems. In her field, there’s always something new she has to figure out - similar to life. Taylor’s dad played an...
Kelly Abrahams went to the Dallas Fashion Institute in hopes of mastering the art of garment construction. Instead, she grappled with discrimination and was left to reevaluate the colour of her skin. “You barely existed,” she told Women...
In 1974 the South African government had closed its borders to the largest independent state in the World, Lesotho. Why? The African National Congress had the support of its Prime Minister, Chief Leabua Jonathan. Despite actions that would suggest...
Honourable Chief Leabua Jonathan was the first prime minister of independent Lesotho but by the time he visited Jamaica, he was not a popular man. Four years earlier, Jonathan, seeming to have lost a general election to the Basotholand Congress...
It is not often that a speech from former Prime Minister Edward Seaga was ever usurped in the news, but such was the importance of the tabling of a bauxite levy in 1974. Seaga’s speech as Opposition spokesman on Finance ran four hours long...
With last week’s Labour Day counted as a ‘no-movement day', understandably, the activities that normally accompany the occasion were muted. As Jamaica seeks to make its way back to normal, The Gleaner looks back at one particular...
Sir Alexander Bustamante was conferred with National Hero status while still alive. His popularity in Jamaica as its first prime minister was incredible. He retired from active politics in 1967 and three years later, that popularity had not...
