Letters
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Building resilience beyond reconstruction
THE EDITOR, Madam: What weighs most heavily on my mind post Hurricane Melissa is not just what has happened, but the certainty that this can happen again. Countless friends have lost everything.…
December 9, 2025
Can cruise ships be used as temporary accommodation?
THE EDITOR, Madam: It would be an understatement to say it is heart-wrenching to see the devastation and suffering caused by hurricane Melissa. So many lives have been impacted in so many ways. We…
December 9, 2025
Readers’ reactions
Editorial | Melissa exposes the Jamaican state Fully agree Beryl did it and they never improved; they were not serious about future storms. – @Bonnick007 There is NO way that Jamaica can recover…
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Build trust through real-time audit of post-Melissa expenditure
THE EDITOR, Madam: Since the passage of Hurricane Melissa, there have been public concerns about accountability in the spending of recovery funds. The Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal recalls how,…
December 9, 2025
A love letter to Jamaica
THE EDITOR, Madam: My beloved island home has gone through a lot over centuries, but Hurricane Melissa was more than we could have bargained for. We faced that monster together and we have survived.…
December 9, 2025
Chasm of star-spangled bewilderment
THE EDITOR, Madam: Whether we like it or not, Washington, DC, is the epicentre of politics for the rest of the world, with so much hypocrisy, utter confusion and vainglorious rhetoric emanating from…
December 9, 2025
Celebrating parents
THE EDITOR, Madam: In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, our landscape is marked by devastation and our hearts are heavy with loss. It is in these challenging times, however, amid the rubble and the…
December 9, 2025
Embrace disaster preparedness like faith
THE EDITOR, Madam: Hurricane Melissa must serve as a clarion call: our island cannot afford to treat disasters as rare, isolated tragedies. That ring of catastrophe must move from shock-and-respond…
December 9, 2025
Letter of the Day | Let ‘...justice, truth, be ours forever…’
THE EDITOR, Madam: As the relief supplies come into the island from the many sources of concern and assistance, both those directly connected to Jamaica and others simply wanting to help, it is…