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The Christmas Card List
“People don’t still send Christmas cards, do they?” A friend said half-jokingly on Twitter. Well, yes I do, I explained. I buy charity cards. Nowadays I buy from the School for Therapy, Education and...
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Poor People Fed Up: UN Human Development Report 2019 Highlights Inequalities,...
In 1996, the dancehall DJ Bounty Killa (real name: Rodney Basil Price) had a popular song called Poor People Fed Up. It was an angry song. The Trench Town-born DJ pointed to poor people “surround by...
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Unfair and Unequal: New UNDP Report Sheds Light on Discontent in Latin...
Well, not so much the Caribbean, you might think. However, in case we had not noticed, there have been rumblings in Dominica of late (politics and then some), and Haiti has seen a year of protests. As...
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Flamingos and John Crows: Further Adventures in Birdland
After our dramatic hillside expedition at Strawberry Hill recently, we intrepid birders asked: What next? We were ready for anything, now. This time we set our sights on the fascinating and always...
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Putting Community Heads Together in the Golden Triangle
Community is still important, even in our confusing old city of Kingston. More important than ever. Kingston Creative is doing it in their own way, downtown, through the arts. Up here in Golden...
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Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison Receives the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry
Quite apart from her considerable literary skills, our Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison is a warm-hearted woman who has gathered all in her embrace through programs such as All Flowers Are Roses. Ms....
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Youth Win Prizes in Guyana Solar Challenge
Co-founder of Solar Head of State James Ellsmoor is forging ahead, encouraging and empowering young people across the Caribbean to think seriously about renewable energy and the impact it can have on...
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Gran’ Market: The 2019 Edition
The Christmas season has arrived in Jamaica, and the weather is mild and calm. Nights are a little cooler, and poinsettias are blooming. ‘Tis the season of goodwill. But the busy bees of Kingston...
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Season’s Greetings!
Since it is nearly Christmas Eve, I am wishing all my dear readers (even if you are not Christian!) all the very best for this end-of-year holiday season. It’s a quiet time of year, so I plan on...
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Christmas Eve, Mi Seh
It has been a grey and cool Christmas Eve in Kingston, with a fitful breeze and the smell of rain in the air…What we would call “bleaky.” So far, the Christmas season has been hard to negotiate (which...
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Notes to Self on Boxing Day
It is a perfect day. Sunlight like honey, an occasional gentle breeze. The White-winged Doves are cooing. Only an occasional car passes. There are no motorbikes revving up their engines, no builders...
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Fifteen Clarendon Communities Consulted on Risk Profiles and Climate Change...
I have spent some time in the beautiful central parish of Clarendon in the past year. Studies (and recent events) have shown that the area is particularly vulnerable to flooding, prolonged drought, and...
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Here’s to a Plastic-Free 2020! And Nuh Dutty Up Jamaica Has Plans…
Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) is a small, hard-working, dedicated team. They don’t spend all their time talking about environmental issues on the radio and television, although advocacy is an...
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2019 Was a Fulfilling Year for BirdLife Jamaica: Part 1
To be honest (from my personal perspective) 2019 wasn’t a particularly encouraging year. It seems the only thing to do nowadays is to “play it safe” – something, perhaps, that I am not very good at,...
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Happy New Year
I wish you, my dear readers and followers, love, light and happiness for 2020. Thank you so much for reading, commenting and sharing! I appreciate you all! “And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
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A Word on Malaria: Jamaica Remains Free of the Mosquito-borne Disease
There have reportedly been two imported cases of malaria in Jamaica. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has explained that since 2012, the country has been free of the disease. It goes without saying,...
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BirdLife Jamaica’s 2019 Adventures: Part 2
Yes, it was quite a year. I am continuing with my overview of the year 2019, as experienced by the intrepid band of birdwatchers that make up BirdLife Jamaica (BLJ). I missed a couple of events in the...
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Designing a Water Fund for Kingston: Going Back to the Source
Jamaica – and in particular the densely populated capital city, Kingston – is suffering from a chronic water shortage. When it’s fairly rainy, the general public doesn’t even give the general issue a...
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A New Year Message from CARICOM’s Chairwoman
I am not particularly enchanted by Caribbean politicians on the whole, but I do like the new Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley. She has a deep,...
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If You Are 60 Years Plus, You are More at Risk of Flu
The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reminding us that Jamaica “remains in the Flu Season.” Please, let us take this seriously. Elders are particularly at risk. The Ministry also points out other...
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