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, […]
When One Person Must Lead a Nation Through Chaos
Hurricane Melissa When Hurricane Melissa tore into Jamaica, the scale of destruction was staggering. Entire communities were cut off, critical infrastructure collapsed, and the national psyche was shaken. In those moments, when the country reels from catastrophe, there’s one individual at the heart of it all, the Chief Emergency Manager, the Commander, the decision-maker-in-chief inside the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC). Their role? […]
🌴 Why Getting the Microeconomics Right Is the Foundation of Disaster Recovery in the Caribbean
When disaster strikes, rebuilding often begins with bricks, lumber, and aid shipments. But in the Caribbean, recovery begins somewhere far less visible in the small, everyday acts of trade, farming, and entrepreneurship that keep communities alive. Getting the microeconomics right in the aftermath of a storm like Hurricane Melissa is not just about money; it’s about culture, dignity, and survival. […]
What if achieving food security in the Caribbean is simpler than we believe?
“With the stroke of a pen, we could end hunger for over 12 million people, if only we choose to act together.” Across the Caribbean, a region home to more than 44 million people, food insecurity remains one of the most pressing and heartbreaking challenges of our time. Within CARICOM member states alone, over 18 million citizens live under […]