Latest posts by Emma Lewis from October, 2024
The fascinating ghosts and monsters of Jamaica's folklore
Jamaicans don’t really “get” Halloween, but the island's folklore is replete with stories of “duppies” – ghosts or spirits – and monsters, many of them with roots in African retentions.
Heroes or icons? Jamaicans are divided on the creation of a new national honour
Bob Marley and Louise Bennett-Coverley are to the inaugural recipients of Jamaica's “Order of National Icon” for their legendary contributions” to Jamaica’s cultural heritage. But has the honour fallen short?
History or productivity? Jamaica erupts over national holiday proposal
“Comfort and convenience cannot be our response to the deaths and atrocities of the Middle Passage.”
Jamaica needs a new prison, but rehabilitation is a must
"There is the perennial issue of corruption in the prisons, which confronts us time and again but is continuously papered over."
