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.

There are stories in history that unfold not like a straight line, but like the design of a great building — foundations…

Imagine stepping off the Piccadilly Line into Harrow, tray of damp schoolbooks in your arms, leafy streets stretching around you. Months later,…

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 following narrative recounts a real-life experience. However, to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of the individual involved, certain details may have…

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.

Moving to Jamaica about four months ago was quite daunting but exciting at the same time. There were thoughts about the different…

In the first half of 2012, two jubilees were approaching simultaneously: the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June, marking sixty years on the throne, and Jamaica’s fiftieth anniversary of independence in August. For the Jamaican community in Notting Hill and across Britain, these dual commemorations arrived weighted with a history that was, in both directions, inescapable.

In March 2006, Portia Simpson Miller became Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister, succeeding P.J. Patterson after his retirement. The response across the Jamaican diaspora was immediate and proud. In Luton’s Caribbean community, as in Caribbean communities across Britain, her elevation to the highest office in Jamaica felt like a statement about what was possible — not only in Jamaica but in the imagination of Caribbean women everywhere.