Christopher Wilks

#Gamechanger

Mantra: Leave it better than how you found it✌🏾

Always #chasingpurpose

[Christopher Wilks @theRoamingIRdoc]

All day, every day. There are many things about my country that can be improved...but absolutely nowhere is better than home.
#FirstTweet

[Janiel J McEwan @mcewan_janiel]

Kemelia Paul is gone.💔😭💔😭

I've been staring at my phone for the last hour trying to find the words. I still don't have them. I'm not sure they exist.

For weeks I spoke with her mother. I followed every update. Every surgery. Every fever. Every small victory, the moment she said she was cold, the moment the doctors said the tube was coming out, I held each one like it meant something. Because it did. Because SHE did.

I was planning to go see her this weekend. This weekend.

I never got to meet her. I never will.

Kemelia Paul was 13 years old. She was in Form 1 at Excelsior High School. She passed her exams and got into the school of her choice. She was somebody's firstborn. Somebody's whole world.

And he was brave. Brave enough to step between a violent man and someone she loved. Brave enough to take what was meant for someone else.

That bravery cost her everything.

To Josephine —

I don't have words big enough for what you're carrying tonight. I don't think such words exist in any language.

You fought for your daughter with everything you had. You walked those streets. You sourced those supplies. You sat beside that bed for weeks. You answered my calls when you had every reason to disconnect from the world entirely.

You did everything right. Everything.

And I am so deeply, deeply sorry that it still wasn't enough to keep her here.

I knew this child only through her mother's voice. Through a crumpled prescription. Through a GoFundMe flyer. Through updates that came in at odd hours that I would read and feel in my chest.

I didn't know her. But I am broken tonight.

I can only imagine what those who did know her are feeling right now.

Kemelia should be complaining about homework tonight.

She should be in her uniform on Monday morning.

She should have decades ahead of her, love, laughter, everything a life is supposed to hold.

Instead a violent man took all of that. In one moment. With one knife.

And Jamaica lost another child it could not protect.

Rest easy, Kemelia.

You were brave and beautiful and you deserved so much better from this world.

I'm sorry we couldn't bring you home.

I'm sorry. 💔😭💔😭💔🕊️

[adidas Football @adidasfootball]

for the game. for the culture. forever. ❤️

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

People of the World! Jamaica is a beautiful country! Book your vacation there for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Is true the hurricane had a big impact and we are in the emergency phase still. Many Jamaicans were affected. But you want to help? Help maintain and create jobs with tourism…

[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued her relief efforts on Tuesday, delivering care packages to residents in communities affected by Hurricane Melissa along the St Elizabeth and Westmoreland border.

The initiative was done through her Pocket Rocket Foundation.
https://t.co/XrDe2GBzax

[Jay Brown @jayjaybrown97]

Aid to the needy . Darliston, Westmoreland

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Here at the Montego Bay convention center @WCKitchen with my long time friend Chef Gariel Ferguson who I cooked with at the Cayman Cookout 15 years ago. I am so happy to be here helping in Jamaica cooking with a great team . We are cooking brown stew chicken and rice and peas a traditional Jamaican favorite.#chefsforJamaica

[Derek Van Dam @VanDamCNN]

The whole community is coming together to push ambulances through mud and debris to fast track critical aid to the #BlackEiver community. (🎥: Devon Sayers) @CNN @cnnbrk #Jamaicastrong

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

🥟 In Jamaica, few foods bring people together like a patty—warm, flaky, and full of flavor. Soon after Hurricane Melissa passed, WCK teams, together with Chef Corps members Brian and Mathieu and local volunteers, delivered thousands of patties from our restaurant partner Mother’s to families across Clarendon, St. Catherine, St. Andrew, and Kingston. A taste of comfort in a difficult time.
#ChefsForJamaica

[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

Popular food joint Chicken and Tings has teamed up with international non-profit World Central Kitchen (WCK) to provide thousands of hot meals to residents across Kingston and St Andrew affected by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest storms in Jamaica’s history.

“For the next six days, we and them [World Central Kitchen] have partnered to issue lunches throughout Kingston to those affected by Hurricane Melissa,” the owner, Emelio Madden shared.
https://t.co/V0NDIyC7q6

[Christopher Wilks @theRoamingIRdoc]

😡😡😡

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY COW: In a humiliating reversal, RFK Jr. walks back his Tylenol autism claim - now saying data is only “suggestive” and “not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism.”

So after fear-mongering, now he’s not sure?

Should Tylenol SUE his ass?

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE violently detains mother driving daughter to school—for not having social security number memorized.

"Agent became flustered when she couldn't repeat the number... then just lunged at her," said daughter.

She showed agents work permit, social security card, drivers license, and car registration—they arrested her anyway.

"I want this video out there because I want my mother home," explained her 16-year-old daughter.

Jaykie Funez-Andrade is currently being detained at the Rockingham County Jail with no pending criminal charges—as a "courtesy" to ICE.

The incident occurred on Route 11 North in Harrisonburg, Virginia. #DemsUnited

[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

Founded in 1882, the historic Westwood High School in Stewart Town, Trelawny, one of Jamaica’s oldest all-girls boarding institutions, has suffered extensive damage following the passage of Hurricane Melissa.

Aerial footage shows severe destruction to the auditorium, dining hall, and hillside classrooms, along with the Woodland Building that houses part of the school’s boarding facilities.

Cleanup efforts are expected to begin soon as the school community works to rebuild.

#HurricaneMelissa #WestwoodHigh #Trelawny #MelissaAftermath #JamaicaStrong #RecoveryEfforts #EyeOnMelissa #JamaicaObserver #Jamaica

[MOHW JA @themohwgovjm]

Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, CMO in @themohwgovjm , visited the Mandeville Regional Hospital today to assess arrangements for patients evacuated from the Black River Hospital following damage caused by Hurricane Melissa.

The hospital’s outpatient department has been converted to accommodate inpatients, with 21 beds ready. Additional capacity is available at the Percy Junior, May Pen and Lionel Town hospitals, which are all on standby to receive additional patients.

Yesterday, three children were airlifted to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) for continued care.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Distribution today @WCKitchen in Treasure Beach today from Restaurant Partner Pan a Knock, even though they didn’t have connection for days….we did 21k meals plus water and fruit…we will increase food everyday…#ChefsForJamaica

[Dana Dixon @IamDanaDixon]

Relief flights are here and many more are on the way.

Huge thanks to @darylvazmp and team for reopening our airports so fast — and to the U.S. Government and all donors for their swift support.

We will recover stronger 🇯🇲

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Just landing in @USEmbassyJA Jamaica joining @WCKitchen teams already feeding as we will
Increase our food and water distribution!! #ChefsForJamaica

[kakasloi @supramabuhay]

Marco Rubio landed in Jamaica aiming to smear Cuban doctors providing crucial free healthcare across the region. But the Jamaican prime minister shut him down, making it clear he had no right to speak for Jamaica or undermine the work of the Cuban doctors.

[Christopher Wilks @theRoamingIRdoc]

No lies here.

[Nationwide90FM @NationwideRadio]

George tackles P.J. Patterson’s record!

[Christopher Wilks @theRoamingIRdoc]

@5Solae Well said. PJ still batting for ducks.

[Christopher Wilks @theRoamingIRdoc]

I have to respect @ErlingHaaland in terms of taking penalties. No messing around, just pure power and placement. The quality of many of the penalties in the 2024 Euros and Copa America is just atrocious. Hop, skip and miss. My word!🙄