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May 29, 2026
READERS’ REACTIONS - Editorial | New front in Patois debate
This debate in Jamaica’s Parliament is ironic. An MP was reprimanded for speaking Jamaican Patois, yet even the Speaker’s correction was in Patois: “Shi kno betta” instead of “she knows better."…
May 29, 2026
Taking a cue from Bananarama
On May 25 Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters that Premier Danielle Smith’s referendum question on whether to hold a vote to separate her province of Alberta from Canada, was a “dangerous…
May 29, 2026
Letter of the Day | Hurricane Melissa’s forgotten victims: Jamaica’s working children
It has been seven months since Hurricane Melissa, the Category 5 hurricane hit Jamaica, stripped hillsides bare, destroyed forests and coastlines, and, even more painfully, disrupted the mental health…
May 29, 2026
Editorial | CARICOM’s free movement
It obviously doesn’t have the same weight as the labour mobility pact between Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
However, this week’s agreement between Barbados and Guyana…
May 29, 2026
Kristen Gyles | Free 15-point customer service training manual
Few topics unite Jamaicans like complaints about customer service. Whether it is having to spend half the day waiting in several lines at a government office, being ignored in a restaurant, or getting…
May 29, 2026
Peter Espeut | Abolishing the age of consent
It is my view that the effort to enact a close-in-age exception to the Sexual Offences Act will lead to the effective abolition of the age of consent for sexual intercourse.
The Gleaner in its…
May 29, 2026
Flood-damaged Lethe navigates life after ‘Melissa’
Almost seven months after Hurricane Melissa carved a destructive path through western Jamaica, life is gradually returning to normal at Lethe Primary and Infant School, where recovery efforts continue…
May 29, 2026
Nation set to join other LatAm countries with 5-day workweek
Brazil was set to join other Latin American countries that have shortened working hours after the lower house of the Brazilian parliament approved a constitutional amendment establishing a 40-hour,…
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May 29, 2026
Rights group: US deported Cubans, Venezuelans into cartel danger
The Trump administration has deported nearly 13,000 Cubans, Venezuelans and other nationals to Mexico, where they are vulnerable to cartel violence in an unfamiliar country, a report by Human Rights…