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Caterer | Co creator of @LucyandVagabond| Chelsea FC| #StopFoodWaste

[🫨 @BreFrench]

My week so far. Food and home decor

[𝙁𝙮𝙖𝙝 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙 @Saint_nunes]

Road repair in Jamaica a haffi money laundering scheme cause how much time ya guh pave and dig up the one stretch a road

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

JAMAICA’S LAND CRABS ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME

Every June, Jamaica’s land crabs emerge in their ancient procession, crossing roads, filling buckets, ending up in cooking pots from Portland to St Elizabeth. It is a tradition as old as our memory, but it may not survive another generation.

The blue land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) is classified Near Threatened by the IUCN, with declining populations across the Caribbean. It matures slowly, breeds once a year, and takes years to reach harvestable size; not the characteristics of a species that recovers easily from pressure.

The red land crab (Gecarcinus ruricola) faces similar challenges: over-harvesting for food, habitat loss, and slow reproductive rates that make recovery from population crashes difficult and prolonged.

The warning signs are there: We’re seeing fewer crabs on local roadsides with each passing year.

Puerto Rico saw populations crash over four decades under the combined weight of over-harvesting, pesticide contamination, and coastal development. Regulations finally came in 1999; closed seasons, size limits, protected zones; but only after the damage was done. Recovery remains slow and incomplete. The Bahamas, with even fewer controls, offers a still grimmer picture.

Jamaica has no closed season, no size limits, no monitoring programme. Harvesting is effectively open-access. As more land is cleared for buildings and roads, pressure on crab habitats intensifies each season.

The ecological stakes are high. Land crabs aerate coastal soils, cycle nutrients, and sustain the mangrove ecosystems that underpin Jamaica’s tourism economy.

Jamaica hasn’t lost what Puerto Rico spent a generation mourning. Not yet.
#Jamaica #Caribbean #PuertoRico #TheBahamas

[Lee 🤍 Radiance June 7 2026 @TallsomeLee]

Sunday @Radiance_Event

[Keenan Falconer @keenanfalconer]

New history book, hot off the presses:

“Kingston, Jamaica. When Downtown was Kingston” by Suzanne Francis-Brown

A description, in words & pictures, of the histories, tales and anecdotes about the city and parish of Kingston when the only Kingston we knew was Downtown Kingston

[JCAA @JCAA_NEWS]

Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority is hiring a Director, Aeronautical Information Management https://t.co/d6pVzRLYYT via @JazzDotCo

[Nick Black @Jcanguy]

I’ll never understand how some decisions are made in this country.
So commuters will have paid one fare in the morning and another in the evening.

And taxis won’t be doing any 2 tranches, they’ll be taking their 20% at street level as soon as this hits the group chats.

[🫨 @BreFrench]

So what exactly is the new rate?
Because the last increase(s) Operators were charging $120>$150 and now $150>$180 and then a flat $200.

Tell me now before i have to fight it out with one a dem.

[Nationwide90FM @NationwideRadio]

BREAKING: Cabinet has approved the 16 per cent fare increase due to operators of public passenger vehicles.

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz made the announcement at a press conference moments ago.

The increase is set to be applied in two tranches.

He says taxi operators will be granted an 8 per cent effective today, June 2.

The following 8 per cent is set to be applied in July.

Minister Vaz says the phased approach balances the economic realities facing operators while minimising the immediate impact on commuters.

[Chelan876 @mamachell]

Right !!! Let's retweet this as much as it was tweeted that he got held! Mash up di yute life

[Damion Mitchell @DamionMitch]

NEW BROADCAST DATE‼️

BREWED AWAKENING!
... How climate change is scorching the profit out of coffee, searing livelihoods and drowning dreams.

@TvjNewscentre's @_KelzWilliams pours it all in her latest documentary: 'Brewed By The Heat' now scheduled for Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 8.30 p.m.

▫️ The pattern of setbacks caused by weather events has fueled emotional pain among farmers.

▫️ Weather events aside, pests and plant diseases have come to a boil.

▫️One coffee stakeholder reports that the impact of climate change is estimated to have burnt the coffee industry more than $10 billion.

📺 Don't miss it!

[mark @firstbyte_]

The only hibachi style dining experience worth the money imo

[Builder Baddie @AuntyHersh]

We really need the planning department to do MORE for us. Mandatory greenery ! Copy Colombia’s model something 😩

[Queen Nana Yaa Asantewaa @Prudysmallaxe]

Guys! I need your help for my foundation to be able to continue to serve Jamaica’s and Nigeria’s most vulnerable. Here are some of the ways you can help. I would also be grateful if you would purchase a ticket and attend my Paint Sip and Sing Event.
Hosted by @marlonmusique!

[Jamaica Gleaner @JamaicaGleaner]

Residents of Morris Meadows in Portmore, St Catherine, took road repairs into their own hands Monday morning, filling potholes along sections of Grange Lane, a key corridor linking Portmore with Spanish Town, after years of what they describe as official neglect.

[Keenan Falconer @keenanfalconer]

I think the proliferation of short-form content has psychologically altered how people receive, process and respond to information. Maybe irreversibly.

[Damion Mitchell @DamionMitch]

🔘 KPH curtails A&E service amid severe staff shortage

The Kingston Public Hospital has restricted service in the Accident and Emergency Department because of a severe staff shortage. The department is reportedly operating in "emergency" mode. The development coincides with mounting frustration among staff working in very hot and uncomfortable physical conditions.

▫️ Patients are being redirected to other facilities in the South Eastern Regional Health Authority. Their staff is being warned to brace for increased cases.

▫️ Medical staff are urged to be vigilant and to be on the alert for viral illnesses. Jamaica has increased monitoring for symptoms of the often fatal Ebola Virus amid reports that eight people on the island are now in self quarantine after travelling to affected African countries.

▫️The Health Ministry says the eight people have shown no symptoms of the disease and there has been no reported Ebola case in Jamaica.

[Mauroy @mauroytweets]

nothing like live music. im there next week

[ʟᴜᴄʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠᴀɢᴀʙᴏɴᴅ 🇯🇲 @LucyAndVagabond]

Monday mornings in Grenada 😍🇬🇩
📺/ pumpwithdora 👐🏾
#Grenada2025 #JabJab #Jouvert

[Mauroy @mauroytweets]

just a pree seh we’re the first generation of uncles and aunties not fighting over land cause we nuh have ntn

[Gait watcher @feifenrir]

People call it hustling but it is extortion