
Eulalee Thompson – The Gleaner – Tuesday, 10 April 2012 (originally published 04 April) Remembering the life of Dr Lucille Mathurin Mair The great Dr Lucille Mathurin Mair’s seminal work The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery framed my consciousness as a young, undergraduate student on the Mona campus of the University [...]

Nadine Wilson – Jamaica Observer – Tuesday, 07 February 2012 (originally published 06 Feb) FOR the ninth time since 1975, the Bureau of Women’s Affairs (BWA) has found itself shifted to a different ministry, but some believe the move from the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture under the last administration to its current location [...]

Jamaica Gleaner – Monday, 31 October 2011 (originally published 26 Oct) IN A display that captured the resilience of the very women the day was supposed to honour, more than 150 women from several rural parishes braved rain and rocky terrain to attend a workshop to mark the International Day for Rural Women (IDRW) [...]

LORNA GOODEN-RADA – Jamaica Observer – Thursday, 08 September 2011 IT is universally known that Caribbean women are strong, powerful and capable of taking care of themselves and their families, and are always ready to meet the challenges of survival. The absence of men in the homes of a large number of rural households, has [...]

NADINE WILSON – Jamaica Observer – Wednesday, 8 December, 2010 (originally published 6 Dec) The idea that women in some cases are the abusers was for a long time disregarded by feminist movements until recently when more men started coming out of the woodwork to seek help. But still, there is another trend, which while [...]