Sashana Small - Staff Reporter

Armando Elenes, secretary-treasurer of the United Farm Workers Labor Union.
February 8, 2026 by Sashana Small - Staff Reporter

HIGHER WAGES, LOWER PAY?

A Jamaican farmworker has joined a legal challenge to New York’s Farm Labourers’ Fair Labour Practices Act (FLFLPA), raising concerns that unionisation – while promising higher wage rates – could ultimately leave farmworkers with less money in their pockets and fewer job opportunities.

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Sixty-eight-year-old Willie Rowe points to a section of land that he bought from the National Housing Trust and is now fenced off by another state entity.
February 1, 2026 by Sashana Small

‘I can’t even walk on my own land’

A 68-year-old man’s lifelong dream of owning a home is in jeopardy amid claims that the Ministry of Housing has encroached on his property in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Fighting back tears, Willie…
Carl Green, dean of discipline at Jonathan Grant High School in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
January 25, 2026 by Sashana Small

Quietly preparing for greatness

Jonathan Grant High School’s stunning upset of Campion College in the opening round of Television Jamaica’s Schools’ Challenge Quiz last week played out like a modern-day David versus Goliath – an…
A section of Westgreen in Montego Bay, St James, more than a week after Hurricane Melissa devastated the island.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

After the flood, Westgreen battles mud

As he trudged through thick mud covering the roadway outside his home in Westgreen, Montego Bay, 77-year-old John Lee paused to scratch his face. The retired firefighter, his boots caked with muck,…
Cynthia Watt, from Lorrimers, Trelawny, chops fallen banana trees in her field that were blown down during the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Trelawny yam farmers face ruin after Melissa

A distraught Cynthia Watt stood with arms outstretched, mourning the ruins of her once-thriving yam farms surrounding her home in Lorrimers, Trelawny. The 73-year-old farmer’s property was among many…
Devon Osbourne battens down a section of his house in Compound, Alligator Pond, Manchester, as he prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Déjà vu

Haunted by the devastation left by Hurricane Beryl last year – which flattened homes and ripped off roofs – residents of Compound Alligator Pond in Manchester have spent the last few days securing…
From left: Sean Hamilton, Devon Dubidat, Sally Ann Richards, residents of McGlashen, St Andrew, share their concerns about the roads in the community and potential worsening of the access challenges after the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Neglect and fear collide in McGlashen as residents brace for Melissa

It’s been nearly a year since torrential rains caused a massive road collapse along the main thoroughfare in McGlashen, St Andrew – yet no repairs has been made. Now, with Hurricane Melissa…
Dr Jason Copeland, head of the Breast Oncology Unit at Kingston Public Hospital.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

SILENT SPREAD

When Ashley*, 53, started experiencing a sharp pain in her stomach and bleeding from the breast where she’d had a lump removed seven years earlier, she instinctively knew something was seriously…
Dr Samar Rodriguez last saw her five-year-old daughter, Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay, seven months ago.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

Where’s my daughter?

It has been more than six months since Dr Samar Rodriguez, a London-based academic, last saw her five-year-old daughter, Tau Kleio Rodriguez-Fairplay. Tau was abducted in February from her home in the…