Being a sponsoring state for Deep Sea mining comes with many risks and liabilities. Jamaicans should know the answers to the questions asked in this article jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commen… via @jamaicagleaner Matthew Samuda Hon. Kamina J Smith

This is what #CHEC's bulldozers are currently destroying. A reminder of what we have already lost. When GOJ officials make speeches about #ClimateChange at overseas conferences please remember: this is what they are doing at home. CVM Television Television Jamaica/Radio Jamaica Newscentre petchary.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/lan…

Writer friends..

We were fogged at 4.35 am this morn. I do not consent to being sprayed by a pesticide at all, but while asleep is particularly offensive - you can't avoid it. Shows utter disregard for anyone old, young, ill. I assume this was done by MOHW JA ?

Fogging is only contributing to environmental pollution. I also don’t think we are accounting for the health effects of fogging on humans, animals and the food we consume due the chemicals used in fogging.

It is well known that mosquitoes have already developed resistance to the chemicals used...

Bots are out in force this morning..

It is especially good news to hear of a “noticeable reduction” in trash along parts of Jamaica’s coastline, as was recently reported by Jamaica Environment Trust. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commen… #GLNROped

Our JPS bill went up by 26% and our usage rate by only 9%... JPS

Wondering what's going to motivate them... in my experience, few regulators in Ja regulate..

#Update Re Social Media Videos purporting discovery of 7 billion Barrels of Oil off Jamaican shores.

Economists around the world who care for Jamaica exhale with relief at this correction since both theory and global experience demonstrate that extractable resources are a political risk and of questionable economic benefit. See: Nigeria, Venezuela, Mexico, Libya, Russia.

Is it really too much to ask that before 'development' starts in a residential community that the people who live there get notice? Some information? A sign on the gate? A note in a mailbox? But no. A bulldozer just shows up. Robert H.P. Hill,J.P Kingston & St. Andrew Municipal Corporation Mayor Andrew Swaby 🇯🇲

Dear Mayor Swaby - total absence of 'meaningful dialogue with its residents' in my community where heavy equipment just showed up Tuesday, apparently for an 8 bedroom 'development' in a cul de sac of small single fam homes. Robert H.P. Hill,J.P

Overnight EURO ensembles for next Friday AM. Could be 3 spots to watch. Closest is entering the Caribbean soon and will be tricky next week in what appears favorable conditions to develop. spaghettimodels.com

Culture defines a people in a way that statistics cannot. If we continue to big up, celebrate and give platforms to people who perpetrate criminal, violent, tiefing, corrupt, bad behavior we will continue in this wilderness of crime, corruption & violence for decades to come.

In the middle of gorgeous greenery 😡😡 Why wi haffi stay suh!

So thrilled about this! Thanks to Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and the judges - I know how hard it is to choose. And congrats to all the writers.. #ReadCaribbean

Interesting..

Signing Advance Reader Copies of my new novel, A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE at Algonquin Books in New York. Pub Feb 2025! #ReadCaribbean