PinnedLeo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateThe Face of Adversity: The Death of a Daughter (Nicola Sherriffe): The Duplicate of her Mother.As I sat there watching the families and friends file into the viewing area, everyone greeted each other with love and affection; lots of…4 min read·Apr 22, 2023--1--1
PinnedLeo Gilling Ph.D. Candidate12-Days of Mourning is UnsettlingNo member of the Diaspora has any right to tell the Jamaican government what to do and how to conduct the country’s affairs. However, any…·4 min read·Sep 16, 2022----
PinnedLeo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateEating ackee is an experience none of us want to miss.Prepared with any kind of salting, ackee is excellent with hard dough bread; fry and boil dumplings, rice, yam, coco, banana, white…·3 min read·Jul 2, 2022----
PinnedLeo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateDiaspora-Engagement, A 2-Way StreetWhile Jamaicans in Jamaica work to be the best they can be, Jamaicans in the Diaspora do the same. Some of us have a little more resources…·3 min read·Jun 11, 2022----
PinnedLeo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateNurses with the lamps of lifeIn the United States, National Nurses Day started in 1954, and National Nurses week in 1974. Jamaica celebrates both occasions…·2 min read·May 6, 2022----
Leo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateSexual violence against girls and women is social leaning of simple but powerful words and phrasesThis article is written on the background of a video recently released by Queen Ifrica, who announced that her biological father sexually…·6 min read·Sep 4, 2023----
Leo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateThe Greater Toronto Area: A vast and Well-developed Jamaican EcoSystemIn Los Angeles, California, there is the Jamaica Awareness Association of California, the most impactful Jamaican nonprofit organization on…·4 min read·Aug 27, 2023----
Leo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateEmancipation Day — Reflect First, then CelebrateThe abolishment of slavery started with the 1831 rebellion, which lasted more than five weeks in Jamaica. More than 60,000 enslaved people…2 min read·Aug 1, 2023----
Leo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateWith more than 4.5In 1999 the Institute of Caribbean Studies placed a petition on the desk of then-President Bill Clinton to be approved. Seven years later…2 min read·Jun 5, 2023----
Leo Gilling Ph.D. CandidateIn reverence to our sons and daughters who gave their lives for us1 min read·May 29, 2023----
