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Too Late For Jamaican Government To ‘Kiss And Make Up’ When It Comes To Chikungunya

As Chikungunya, a mosquito-born virus that causes high fever and acute joint pain, continues to run rampant throughout the Caribbean, regional governments have been grappling with how to deal with the outbreak. In Jamaica, w...

by Janine Mendes-Franco

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Speaking out against the stigma of mental illness in the Caribbean

American comedian Robin Williams’ apparent suicide has triggered a discussion about depression and other forms of mental illness in the Caribbean blogosphere. The tragedy has inspired many bloggers to share their own experi...

by Matthew Hunte

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Bringing Stability Back to Jamaica’s Finances

Fiscal reform is never fun, even less so when it comes as an eleventh-hour necessity. For Caribbean states especially, “fiscal reform” is hissed in the public sector as the foulest Jamaican bad word. Nowhere does this ri...

by Donovon Kellyman

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Too Late For Jamaican Government To ‘Kiss And Make Up’ When It Comes To Chikungunya

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