6+ hour, 48+ min ago   (392+ words) Extreme heat is often treated as a weather problem. For climate-vulnerable economies, it is increasingly an economic one. The passage of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa inflicted unprecedented environmental damage across Jamaica. Approximately 42,000 hectares of broadleaf forests and more than 2,000 hectares of…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (963+ words) A beach can remain public on paper while becoming privately unavailable in practice. Put up a gate, station a guard along the approach road, leave access unmarked, or make the route so awkward that only the determined will attempt it,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (481+ words) Depending on who you ask, Copacabana Beach in Bull Bay, St Andrew,can either be a beach lover’s dream or a nightmare. The black-sand beach on the southern end of the eponymous community is among 60 beaches designated ‘public’ by the…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (69+ words) Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has pushed back against criticisms that schoolchildren, especially in western Jamaica, have started the new academic year in less-than-ideal circumstances, with some students attending classes outside under trees. There has been rising public outrage over…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (416+ words) The Supreme Court has imposed an injunction that temporarily blocks the country’s environment regulatory authority from evicting at least 40 people from the Jacob Taylor Beach lands in Duncans, Trelawny. Justice Andrea Thomas granted the injunction on Tuesday at the end…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (430+ words) A group of chimpanzees once used in laboratory hepatitis B vaccine experiments has received health checks at their new home in Liberia, in hopes of giving them a second chance at a normal life. More than 400 of the chimpanzees had…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (65+ words) Last week’s column titled Cries from the ocean floor called attention to the Transatlantic reasonings conference to be held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, later this year. Little did I know that we would hear some interesting reasoning from Prime Minister…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (575+ words) South African civil rights groups are calling for a halt to the construction of additional data centres in the country until the use of scarce water, land and electricity resources has been investigated. With South Africa positioning itself as Africa’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (94+ words) THE EDITOR, Madam: I write with a heavy heart at the passing of the irrepressible and erudite Dervan Malcolm, a broadcaster whose voice shaped how thousands of Jamaicans, at home and across the diaspora, understood themselves and their country. For…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (281+ words) A documentary examining the growing battle over public access to Jamaica’s coastline was set to make its UK premiere on Friday, September 4 at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, bringing an issue that has sparked widespread debate in Jamaica to an…...