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Demar Banton a carpenter working with Food For The Poor installs a solar panel on the roof of a newly bult house for a family in Kingston.
December 21, 2025

Hello mi neighbour | Remember victims of another sort

As we pour into the lives of Melissa’s victims especially those in western Jamaica, let’s remember victims of another sort residing in other sections of the island. “Poorness” prevents them from…
Neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter.
December 21, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Hunter takes aim at Tufton

Neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter has filed an application in the Supreme Court for an emergency judicial review, accusing Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton of dereliction of duty. At the…
Mangled remains of a house in Westmoreland flattened by Hurricane Melissa.
December 21, 2025

Imani Tafari-Ama | Hurricane Melissa didn’t end — It moved inside us

When the winds died down and the floodwaters receded, what remained was not only broken infrastructure, but broken routines, broken security and broken peace of mind. And yet, our recovery discourse…
A downed light pole along Authur Wint Drive in St Andrew during the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28.
December 21, 2025

Dennis Minott | Sunlight now is cheaper than scandal later

The arrival of 117 Canadian electrical linesmen to assist the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) in restoring power after Hurricane Melissa has been greeted with official smiles, airport photo-ops,…
Drummers seen playing at Maroon Festival in Accompong, St Elizabeth.
December 21, 2025

Stephen Vasciannie | Assessing Accompong assertions

The Maroons are a distinct but divided people. Some Maroons find their national identity through full membership of Jamaican society as Jamaican nationals, engaging in Jamaican cultural life, sharing…
A JPS electricity pole broken by the passage of Hurricane Melissa is seen in Mandeville, Manchester.
December 21, 2025

Mark Wignall | What a nerve!

This comes with the most bold-faced audacity; The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) claiming seven per cent increase in electricity rates. What makes this so jarring to the nerves is what went down before.…
Nurse Rod Salaysay plays guitar for patient Richard Hoang in the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health in San Diego, California, on September 30, 2025.
December 21, 2025

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Career photo
FilePeter McConell managing director of Trade Winds Citrus Ltd
December 21, 2025

Sorrel stockpiling aids Trade Winds during Xmas

Hurricane Melissa might have wiped out more than 90 per cent of Jamaica’s sorrel crop, but at least one local company had the foresight to stockpile the product in anticipation of increased demand for…
The Hendriks and Co, building, built in 1913, is perhaps the only historical structure that was not blown down by Hurricane Melissa in Black River on October 28.
December 21, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

Of St John’s Anglican Church and Allison Morris – Part III Urges, hope, and anguish

Allison Morris, nee Francis, has a long familial connection to Black River, where St John’s Anglican Parish Church is situated, in St Elizabeth. She was christened and grew up in St. John’s, which she…