On September 8, 2022, Queen Elisabeth II was announced dead at the age of 96. The sudden news not only surprised the royal family but stunned the entire world. However, I felt the news about her death was going to be soon since the lost of her Husband King Phillip. I personally felt that the…

In one moment, on a fairly blue-skied November day, Barbados announces that they are removing the then Queen from their Head of State and would become a republic. I then wasted probably a day’s worth of time listening to ten months of Jamaican critics, opinionated journalists, and of course politicians grinding the topic of the…

The death of Queen Elizabeth II from the perspective of a Jamaican.  -Dominic Ramsay  The death of H.M Queen Elizabeth II is neither shocking nor untimely. At 96 years old, months before the Queen’s passing she had decided to withdraw from the public, openly admitting that it was due to health concerns that she had…

I thought I did not have a reaction to Queen Elizabeth’s death but when I first heard the news I started singing this jingle that was popular amongst the children especially in primary school. It starts like this, “Queen Elizabeth died last night, she died from a fever, she died from a cold, she died…

The Voices of Disabled People in Jamaica have been further pushed into the shadows for quite some time. As Jamaican people we are all familiar with institutions such as Mustard Seed, Food for the Poor and the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities etc. These organizations have aided disabled and less fortunate people over the…