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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…
