When Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica as a historic Category 5 storm, a diaspora scattered across three continents became the island’s first line of relief — even as Jamaica’s petition to King Charles III marked a new chapter in the long struggle for reparatory justice.

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The Price of Paradise Relocating from London to Jamaica often comes with dreams of a slower life, sun-kissed mornings, and the satisfaction…

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From London’s Grey to Jamaica’s Gold Relocating from London to Jamaica is often romanticised as a poetic return to ancestral soil—sunlit days,…

As Toronto’s Little Jamaica fights to survive gentrification caused by a decade of transit construction, an independent report on Jamaica exposes gaps in Britain’s Windrush outreach, and the post-coronation debate over Jamaica’s republican future gathers momentum.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 sent complex waves through the Jamaican diaspora and across the island itself — accelerating the republic movement, prompting fierce debate about the meaning of grief, and marking the end of an era that connected the Caribbean to the Crown through memory, loyalty and loss.

In March 2022, Prince William arrived in Jamaica to protests and a prime minister who told him Britain was being left behind. Three months later, a bronze family stood in Sunday best atop a pile of suitcases at Waterloo Station — the National Windrush Monument, unveiled by the same prince.

When Barbados became the Caribbean’s newest republic in November 2021, it electrified a conversation about Jamaica’s own constitutional future from Kingston to Brooklyn. In the same month, a damning parliamentary report found that only five per cent of Windrush scandal victims in Britain had received compensation.

In six weeks in the spring of 2020, a pandemic arrived and a man was killed on a street in Minneapolis, and the world the Jamaican diaspora had known changed in ways that are still being measured. The lockdown and George Floyd’s murder defined a generation.