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May 24, 2026
WISDOM OF THE WEEK - Be ‘telegraphic’
Modern life has become full of noise. We are talking all the time — with others, on phones, on social media, and even inside our own minds. If there is nobody around to speak to, we immediately open…
May 24, 2026
He’s Royal: Kingsley George Lawton Cooper
On April 29, the 19th Annual African American Fiber Art Exhibition opened in Charleston, South Carolina. More than 70 artists from 22 states are featured in the juried exhibition.
This year’s theme…
May 24, 2026
Matthew Smith, Matthew Stallard and Frankie Chappell | Narrating stories of the enslaved people of Jamaica
For 200 years, the most extensive records of pre-Emancipation Jamaicans have sat in London – originally in the old Public Record Office at Kew and now in The National Archives, UK. These Registers…
May 24, 2026
Donna Scott-Mottley | A united CARICOM is a necessity
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools,” said Martin Luther King Jr. It is a truth that speaks directly to the Caribbean today. Geography alone is not enough to define…
May 24, 2026
Gordon Robinson | Ain’t it wondrous?
So Chris Tufton’s Review Committee appointed to do UHWI’s Board’s work has submitted its report.
The Committee was asked to:
Review and identify gaps and/or weaknesses in UHWI’s Corporate Governance…
May 24, 2026
Kimberly Stewart | Whose job is it to fix the spending gap for children?
Blame is not a useful response to a structural problem. A problem is structural when it is built into the rules, the incentives, and the institutional design of a system; it persists regardless of who…
May 24, 2026
Mark Wignall | Stone-cold killers
Most or just all of us saw that video of the police shooting in Granville, Jamaica, this past weekend, which resulted in the horrible death of a woman.
To say the least, it was chilling. Excessively…
May 24, 2026
Dennis Minott | The Hanta death of accountability in modern Jamaica – Part One
South Africans have popularised a phrase that perfectly captures the creeping paralysis of Jamaican public accountability: the ‘Stalingrad strategy’. Born amid the labyrinthine legal manoeuvres…
