Letters
January 8, 2026
One job is no longer enough!
THE EDITOR, Madam: As Jamaica settles into a new year and looks ahead to 2026, it is time to honestly revisit how we define work, productivity, and survival in this economy. The cost of living has…
January 8, 2026
Trump ... evidence of a great evil, unleashed
THE EDITOR, Madam: Re: the Donald Trump administration’s non-militarily-provoked attack against Venezuela to topple its democratically elected government American comedian/actor John Mulaney has…
January 7, 2026
Letter of the Day | Close-in-age exemption a safeguard, not an open door
THE EDITOR, Madam: In your Letter of the Day published on Monday, January 5, 2026, a writer using the moniker ‘Concerned Citizen’ argued, “Don’t expand the close-in-age exemption, educate the…
January 7, 2026
JFJ, INDECOM singing from different hymn sheets – for a change
THE EDITOR, Madam: A couple of years ago, I expressed grave concern about the sight of the commissioner of INDECOM appearing alongside human rights advocacy groups, particularly Jamaicans for Justice…
January 7, 2026
Judicial humility
THE EDITOR, Madam: The president of the court of appeal, The Honourable Marva McDonald Bishop, who handed down the acquittal decision in the Vybz Kartel murder case on July 24, 2024, gave a very…
January 6, 2026
Letter of the Day | Technology is not a threat, hesitation is
THE EDITOR, Madam: I am writing in response to the article ‘Malabver urges nation to rethink use of technology in classrooms’, published in The Gleaner on January 3. Jamaica Teachers’ Association…
January 6, 2026
Warmington is right this time
THE EDITOR, Madam: Some of these men of the cloth, so-called pastors, continue to gaze into the heavens with admiration while their hearts are immersed in greed and corruption. Church leaders should…
January 6, 2026
What does Rover plan to do with it?
THE EDITOR, Madam: Growing up in the small English town of Camborne, my early childhood consisted mainly of kicking a football around or playing cricket with a rubber ball on the street where we…
January 5, 2026
Letter of the Day | Don’t expand close-in-age exemption, educate the children
THE EDITOR, Madam: Mickel Jackson, of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), recently called for decriminalising consensual sex between minors. She went on to show stats , inadvertently, that though the law…