The Script of Erasure
In the silence before modern-day justice speaks, there are often whispers. They arrive early, before evidence is tested, before arguments are heard, before a judge ever enters the room. These whispers sound like certainty. They speak in assumptions, in expectations, in outcomes that feel already written. Long before a case is called, long before a […]
15 Minutes to Create Poverty
Poverty is often explained away with simple narratives. Bad luck.Poor choices.Not working hard enough.A family history that never learned how to escape scarcity. Sometimes those explanations are true. Often, they are convenient. They ignore the quieter truth, that poverty can be manufactured, abruptly, by systems that operate with authority, speed, and indifference. It can be […]
Unintended Consequences
How Misinformation Manipulates Social Systems in Furtherance of Seeking Justice Through Manufactured Truth Law was never meant to be perfect. It was designed to correct wrongs, to restrain chaos, and to uphold an unwritten promise in democratic societies: do not take matters into your own hands; trust institutions instead. Trust that those entrusted with authority are […]
Beyond Imported Frameworks
Emergency management in the Caribbean has too often been treated as a scaled-down version of North American disaster doctrine. The language is familiar: prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and the tools are recognizable: hazard maps, risk matrices, probability curves, and damage assessments. Yet the outcomes repeatedly tell us something uncomfortable: when these frameworks are applied without adaptation, they fail to capture […]
Naming What Sustains Us: Identifying and Protecting Caribbean Critical Infrastructure for Resilience and Business Continuity
When we speak about critical infrastructure, the conversation is often framed through a North American lens. Banking systems. Telecommunications. Power grids. Transportation corridors. Food and water supply chains. These systems are engineered with layers of redundancy, formal regulation, and institutional oversight. They are stress-tested through large-scale exercises, tabletop simulations, and third-party evaluations designed to identify vulnerabilities […]
How Justice Really Feels
Justice is one of those words that sounds settled the moment it is spoken, firm, resolved, final. It appears singular, clean, almost definitive. Yet justice is anything but simple. It is a broad term that spans human experience, touching on social justice, criminal justice, family justice, cultural justice, and countless other arenas where people seek […]
How the Law Evolved
Law is a tool by which society governs itself through a system we call justice. At its best, it exists to measure right from wrong, to weigh conduct against consequence, to arbitrate disputes without violence. At its origin, law was never meant to be ornamental or static. It was meant to respond, not to harm, […]