When the Weather Has Spoken: What Truly Endures in a Jamaican Home

There is a particular stillness that follows a storm in Jamaica.

It’s not silence exactly. It’s the sound of people sweeping, hammering, checking on neighbours, lifting zinc sheets back into place, boiling water, charging phones off car batteries. It’s the quiet recalibration of a country that has learned, again, that nature always has the final word.

In …