Latest News

17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | Integrated action said key to solving the world’s climate, clean air woes

WITH THE world appearing set to exceed, if only temporarily, 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming while air pollution claims the lives of millions each year, there is an urgent call to action for an…
Bahía de las Águilas, National Recreation Area within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Hispaniola. Photo: Kurt Prospere/CBF.
17 Sep, 2026 0

Earth Today | Learning from climate-resilience approaches in Hispaniola

TUCKED INTO the southwest corner of Hispaniola, where the Dominican Republic meets Haiti, lies a stretch of land and sea unlike almost anywhere else on Earth. Mountains give way to dry forest, dry…
A worker gets a robot ready for demonstration at a booth for leading Chinese commercial humanoid robotics firm Unitree Robotics during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, on July 18, 2026.
17 Sep, 2026 0

AI fear or China panic?

THE EDITOR, Madam: If it were not so pathetic and dangerous in equal measure, it would be side-splittingly funny. The bog-eyed, empathy-devoid, marvellously immature, greedy and stupid…
 Lord Briggs
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…
17 Sep, 2026 0

Who will protect motorists from excessive wrecker fees?

THE EDITOR, Madam: On August 31, 2026, I was involved in a motor vehicle accident on Mountain View Avenue near Munster Road. A well-known wrecker company, reportedly among the pool of…