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A Flood Warning System for Fellowship
Fellowship is a small community, situated along the narrow, winding road that runs up the Rio Grande Valley, just outside the town of Port Antonio in the parish of Portland. I actually used to know...
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A Nicaraguan Ship Carrying 93 Men Brings Three with Malaria
Do we ever think about malaria? Perhaps not as much as we should, although please note – Jamaica is malaria free. A Nicaraguan ship intercepted in Jamaican waters turned out to have three malaria...
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Wild Animals Captured for Our Entertainment (and Tourism Dollars)
After I returned from my travels, I saw a headline, a week or two old, about a new Dolphin Cove facility, to be built next to Puerto Seco Beach in Discovery Bay. The beach was recently rehabilitated...
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Remembrance Day 2018: Jamaica
Yesterday I spent a lot of time thinking about my ancestors who served in one or both world wars – especially my grandfather, who served in both. My thoughts were disturbed by the U.S. President’s...
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Green Thoughts: The Coming Plastics Ban
I made my way to the back of the ever-expanding University of Technology (UTech) campus recently. Many thanks to the student who set me on the right path – I was truly lost. There was a row of brand...
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The Art of White Roses by Viviana Prado-Nunez: Book Review
The world is an uncertain place for teenagers, at the best of times. But for a 13-year-old girl living in a rundown neighbourhood just outside Havana, Cuba, in the end days of the dictator Batista’s...
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One Year Later, Many Lingering Concerns Over Cockpit Country
There is so much unfinished business related to the Cockpit Country, one year later. I seem to be using this cliché so often recently: “The devil is in the details.” But it’s true. It is not enough to...
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A Cultural and Historical Salute to the Parish of Hanover at the Institute of...
What do you know about the parish of Hanover – the smallest outside Kingston? Actually, I must confess I know very little. I am not sure that I have seen the Ettu dance performed, either. So I am very...
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Jamaica to Support Global Efforts at Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in...
Yes, the Blue Economy is here! Or is it? At least there are conferences being held about it. Just a few years back, we were talking about the Green Economy, it seems. There was even a Green Economy...
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Dahlia Harris Will Challenge the ROCK on Sunday!
What are you doing on Sunday morning? Well, here’s a very good way to spend it. Lunch and a stimulating talk with the people at ROCK! What a great acronym, standing for the Royal Optimist Club of...
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Buying “Social” (And Giving) for Christmas
There is an old Christmas song, or nursery rhyme, in England: Christmas is Coming/The goose is getting fat/Please to put a penny in/the old man’s hat/ If you haven’t got a penny/A ha’penny will do/If...
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Mr. Justice the Hon. Seymour Panton Speaks on Family, Hanover, and Jamaica’s...
I attended a remarkably stimulating event on November 29, a Salute to the Parish of Hanover. The Institute of Jamaica worked hard to put together a detailed, informative and altogether very satisfying...
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Good Green News 1: Cleaner and More Efficient Fuels and Vehicles Coming for...
News on climate change and a range of environmental issues – both local and overseas – is coming in thick and fast at the moment. I am writing an environmental news overview at the moment, but events...
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Good Green News 2: National Meteorological Officers Undergo Climate Product...
Our meteorological officers are now in training at the University of the West Indies – learning how to better gather and track climate change data. And data is critical to ensure that our policymakers...
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It’s a More Active Season, But There is No Dengue Outbreak, Says Health Ministry
This year there are quite a few more suspected cases of dengue fever in Jamaica. It has been very rainy in most weeks, and breeding grounds may have been increasing. Dengue is no joke – as I know from...
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Blogging from Sierra Leone: The ‘Why’.
I have a new follower, a fellow blogger from Sierra Leone! This is a pleasure in and of itself, but also I found his comments on the “why” of blogging completely resonated with me. If you are already a...
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B-H Paints Advocates Environmental Protection Through Coatings Technology
I recently wrote that the Jamaican private sector will have to step up in a big way and play its part in the Green Economy – sooner rather than later. Climate change, energy conservation/renewables,...
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Embassy of Japan to Provide Orthopaedic Equipment to May Pen Hospital
There’s so much news around at the moment that makes you want to groan and hold your head in pain (the revived, reverberating PetroJam scandal, for one – not to mention the police lockups) that it’s...
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JET’s Nuh Dutty Up Jamaica Christmas Campaign: Bring a Bag a (Plastic) Bokkle!
NUH DUTTY UP JAMAICA CHRISTMAS BRING A BAG A BOKKLE Guys and gals! Trot along to the Mall Plaza on Constant Spring Road in Kingston next Tuesday afternoon (December 11, 3 to 6 pm) and “bring a bag a...
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Human Rights Day in Jamaica: Against a Background of the Arts, Much to Be Done
Human Rights Day this year was particularly significant for the world. We have to think “world” on Human Rights Day, and then get out our magnifying glasses and zoom in on a map of Jamaica and the...
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