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December 28, 2025
Balance is the ultimate measure of success for Adrian Reynolds
For Adrian Reynolds, success isn’t just measured in numbers or balance sheets. It is found in balance itself. Whether he is cycling through the hills of St Andrew, meditating at dawn, or hiking with…
December 28, 2025
From red donkeys to vibrant art
DORAL, Florida. (AP) When Fernando Dávila was 8 years old in Colombia, he failed a drawing class because he painted donkeys red. There was a reason for that: He is colour-blind. Now the 72-year-old…
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…