From earthquakes to financial scandals and the hiccups of implementing a new law and restructuring public sector wages, the narratives that took centre stage in 2023 have influenced our trajectory as we step into the upcoming year. Here’s a...
About 6:30 a.m. on August 13, 2022, Linval Williams was packing goods into the trunk of his vehicle at his gate as he prepared to sell his produce in and around his community of Windsor Castle, St Mary. Without warning, his Saturday morning routine...
No Jamaican alive has ever experienced a local tsunami. The last tsunami recorded in Jamaica was 116 years ago when the 1907 earthquake struck Kingston, killing more than 1,000 people. Though rare, the threat a tsunami poses to a country with so...
An hour before her mother Heather Moyston was killed in a murder-suicide by her husband, Aimee Norman received a text message from her. As she did regularly, Moyston was inquiring about the well-being of her only child and her four grandchildren...
People seeking long-term rentals are now being targeted by scammers presenting fake contracts and giving them unauthorised tours of properties before fleeing with their deposits and leaving them in the cold, to the chagrin of the legitimate...
Local stakeholders are expressing hope in light of news out of the United States that human trials of a breast cancer vaccine are producing desirable results. Experts believe the drug could revolutionise breast cancer treatment and have a...
At 32 years old, Karen* still bears the emotional scars of being bullied throughout high school. She recalls how the repeated abuse from her peers at a prominent Corporate Area institution gnawed at her mental health to the point where she no...
Daneslee Edmondson’s neighbour in Reader’s Pen, St Thomas, made chemicals that could remove the rust from metal like no other. And Edmondson, a welder in the community, was intrigued. For years, he desired to learn the method, but his neighbour was...
Darren Lewis, assistant editor at the United Kingdom’s Daily Mirror, and press photographer Humphrey Nemal had an enlightening discovery when they travelled to Jamaica recently on a Windrush assignment. While the Jamaican diaspora in England had...
When Nicholas Phillips was a 13-year-old student of Ardenne High School, one of his classmates drew a picture and presented it to him. The drawing showed Phillips hunched in a corner in the classroom, his head on the desk as he slept, away from...
Thirteen-year-old *Sanjay Green sat on top of a water bucket under the bridge at Three Miles, Kingston, with his squeegee and a bottle filled with soapy water in hand. Periodically, his tiny frame joins the throng of older windshield wipers who...
Adrian Laing, Kishawn Henry Sr, and Artnel Williams have never met each other, but the three fathers are bonded by grief birthed by the tragic loss of their children. It is a sorrow that they say the celebrations of Father’s Day only serve to...
Five years ago, Tess Gordon* was approached by a man in Barbican, St Andrew, while running weekend errands. Spooked by his comments, the then 21-year-old said she rejected his advances. “The conversation was very creepy, he was like ‘I want to...
A phone call from her daughter a week ago turned Janet Hall’s anticipation of comfortably retiring into complete dread. The 65-year-old former preparatory school cafeteria chef was told that her National Insurance Scheme (NIS) payments, which were...
“When mi a go nowhere mi nuh go wid fear.” Those were Devroy Peart’s last words to his older brother Phillip Peart a little over a month ago as he tried to alleviate Phillip’s unease about his new vocation as a driver with multinational ridesharing...
