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December 28, 2025
Mark Wignall | Present me with real honour
In many ways, it has to be more than just what you feel about me and significantly deeper than that. It has to be much more than that. I want to feel an intense connection. Closer than it could ever…
December 28, 2025
Sandra Latibeaudiere | Hurricane Melissa exposes vulnerable older adults
Hurricane Melissa’s vastly different human and infrastructural impact between eastern and western Jamaica has continued into the early recovery stages. There is another, far less obvious, disaster…
December 28, 2025
Gordon Robinson | Make a change
Despite most of us having no clue where the time went it seems another new year is upon us. The thing about time is that it not only flies but changes direction, fortunes and perspectives while doing…
December 28, 2025
Dennis Minott | When self-interest is sacrificed
Jamaica’s prolonged mistreatment of Haitian migrants is often defended in the language of capacity, sovereignty, or political realism. Yet five years on — and now brutally exposed by Hurricane Melissa…
December 28, 2025
Patricia Green | Hurricane Melissa architecture and land decolonisation
“… I will uncover your skirts over your face, That your shame may appear …” was spoken by God to the prophet Jeremiah about ancient Israel. Is this exposure applicable to post-disaster Jamaica?…
December 28, 2025
by Nicola Cunningham
South West St Andrew Jonkunnu Band still jumping despite challenges
They were the creatures that we feared as children. When the fife and drums started playing, small children would scurry to hide behind their mothers’ skirts as the high-pitched, shrill sound…
December 28, 2025
Poems
How can we celebrate Christmas in a mash-up land? (A Jamaican advent lament and hope) How can we celebrate Christmas In a mash-up land, O Lord? When zinc and sorrow scatter the roads, And every…
December 28, 2025
Floyd Morris | Integrate accessibility and inclusion for more resilient post-Melissa Jamaica
Jamaica has agreed to a number of international agreements that bind it to providing an accessible and inclusive environment for persons with disabilities. The United Nations Convention on the Rights…
December 28, 2025
by Erica Virtue
Literacy leap
Seventy per cent of the cohort of seventh graders at Holy Trinity High School last academic year who were part of the Grade 7 Academy – a radical literacy and numeracy programme for students…