L.F.

[Jamaica Stock Exchange @jastockex]

At the listing ceremony of Quantas Advantage Inc., Dario Dixon, Corporate Manager of JMMB Capital Markets, highlighted what contributed to the offer’s success, “the role of innovation in modern capital raising, accessible, efficient, and inclusive.”

The Quantas Advantage offer was oversubscribed by approximately 60%.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@JamaicaObserver He should also reject some food placed before him.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

Tremor

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@William37527183 Pot a cuss kettle.

[Nationwide90FM @NationwideRadio]

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been honoured with the Global Africa Ubuntu Lifetime Achievement Award.

READ MORE HERE: https://t.co/Tb2cmHIIu9

[Mia Amor Mottley @miaamormottley]

My friends, today Barbados helped to launch something truly important for our country, for the Caribbean and for all climate vulnerable nations.

Here in Vienna, together with the OPEC Fund and our CVF V20 family, we launched the Vulnerability to Viability Compact. That may sound technical, so let me bring it home.

This Compact is about making sure countries like Barbados can access finance that is fairer, more affordable and better suited to the future we are trying to build. It means longer repayment terms, stronger partnerships and investment that follows the priorities of our people.

Every Bajan knows what resilience looks like. It is the school that must remain safe through storms. It is the clinic that must keep serving families when pressure comes. It is the water system that must hold strong through drought, flooding and rising costs. These are not luxuries. These are the foundations of dignity.

For too long, climate vulnerable countries have carried burdens we did not create, while trying to build modern, confident societies with financial tools that were never designed for our reality. Today, we are helping to change that.

Barbados is showing that small size does not mean small ambition. We are standing with 74 climate vulnerable economies, representing 1.7 billion people, to say that our development must be planned by us, led by us and supported in ways that make sense.

This is about hope, yes, but it is also about delivery. It is about giving our children stronger systems, safer communities and a country that can face the future with confidence.

I am proud to say that Barbados came to the table with purpose. Barbados came with solutions. Today, Barbados helped move the world forward.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@NationwideRadio Publish list, cause it seems my route need fi change.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@mamachell 🤣🤣

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@William37527183 You have no shame!

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@djmillerJA This is where the 10,000 figure emanates.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@jamaicastar Place call Bellevue.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@ChrisHenry1690 Sent home the Cubans, & the Haitians as they land but propose to accept deportees.
Suh who think this make sense ?

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@JamaicaGleaner They should rot!
I remember this case & it was despicable.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@NationwideRadio The nonsense spreying from this guy is astonishing: misplaced at this ministry & probably even at the PAAC.
https://t.co/N1QMhrXXWp been used by all admin. in the consolidated fund for decades.
Fix that!
Soon tell us the same about NHT.
Dunce!

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@IRIEFM_NEWS Absolute nonsense!
Simply allocate https://t.co/N1QMhrXXWp for it's intended purpose & problem solved.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@LowrieChin @JamaicaGleaner Points are very valid.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@kenyatta_pow 👀🤣

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

Sustainability week -Barbados.

[L.F. @leacroft_forden]

@RobertBRMiller Stop being selective & it is likely message would land differently.

[Janiel J McEwan @mcewan_janiel]

They were the ones who were most clear, most principled, and most willing to be publicly disagreed with without reaching for the lowest available weapon.

What you practise, you become. And what the leaders of tomorrow become, Jamaica becomes. That is not sentiment. That is the most serious political fact I know.

An Emotional Plea, Given With Love

I am going to say something now that I have not said before in this letter, and I am going to say it without embarrassment, because I think we have spent too long being embarrassed about caring.

I am afraid for this country. Not of an external enemy. Not of a natural disaster. I am afraid of the version of Jamaica that is slowly being constructed by the accumulation of these moments, these incidents, these patterns of behaviour that we process and move past without ever truly reckoning with. I am afraid that we are building, brick by brick and laugh by laugh and snarl by snarl, a political culture that is fundamentally hostile to the best of what Jamaica can be.

And I am sad. I am sad that Nekeisha Burchell had to stand up at a press conference and explain that she is worth more than her body. I am sad that the language in which the majority of Jamaicans live their daily lives is still something that can be stopped in Parliament with a threat about speaking time. I am sad that the woman who later made cutting remarks about the Speaker, whatever drove her to that moment, had herself been taught by the culture of this political life that personal attacks are the language we speak when we are frustrated and cornered. I am sad that we have been having this exact conversation since 1989 and the Speaker of that era would recognise every single word of it.

I am sad because I know what Jamaica is capable of. I have seen it in the way our people rebuild after hurricanes, in the way our communities hold each other in grief, in the creativity that pours out of this island in quantities that have no rational explanation for a country this size. I know what we are. And I know that what is happening in the name of our governance is not it.

We deserve better. Not just from our politicians. From ourselves. From the way we engage in public discourse, the way we talk about women in political life, the way we choose what to laugh at and what to demand be taken seriously. This is not only about what happens in Gordon House. It is about what we have decided, as a people, is acceptable. And that decision is made not only by the people who sit in Parliament but by every Jamaican who has ever watched a clip of political nastiness and laughed, shared it, or stayed silent.

This letter is for all of us. The question it is asking is one that only all of us can answer together.

What kind of Jamaica are we building? What are we leaving behind? And is it, by any honest reckoning, worthy of what August 6, 1962 cost?

I believe it can be. I believe we have not yet become what the worst of these moments suggest we are becoming. I believe there is still time to interrupt the pattern. But time is not infinite. Children are watching right now and drawing their conclusions. History is recording right now and it does not grade on a curve.

We were trusted with something precious. Handle it accordingly.

With grief at what this country is risking, with love for what it can still become, and with a faith that refuses, despite everything, to be extinguished,

Janiel McEwan

This letter belongs to no party. It belongs to Jamaica. Share it freely.

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