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Is the Jamaican consumer’s “beacon of hope” truly impartial?
Last year, I came to the ineluctable conclusion that the taxpayer-funded Consumer Affairs Commission of Jamaica (CAC) is truly useless in...
Amanda Quest
Feb 124 min read

Infrastructural development for Indigenous communities must honor tradition
Indigenous peoples across the Caribbean face several challenges in post-colonial societies that cling to a violent colonial past founded...
Amanda Quest
21 minutes ago2 min read

The Rule of Law and AI Ethics: FRTs in Focus
*Image credit: The National Judicial College While AI systems have proven beneficial to humankind in several ways, their deployment has...
Amanda Quest
4 days ago4 min read
Questioning the Necessity and Suitability of the Article 214 Referral Procedure for CARICOM
The referral procedure established under Article 214 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (“the RTC”) is one of the most conceptually...
Amanda Quest
Mar 187 min read
Where is Jamaica’s commitment to tackling elder abuse?
Just last week, I found myself watching intently as a spoilt, entitled man-child harassed his elderly mother for money to feed his...
Amanda Quest
Mar 184 min read
Letter to the Editor: Is the Article 214 Referral Procedure Necessary and Suitable for CARICOM
The referral procedure established by Article 214 of the RTC remains a conceptual enigma. Indeed, while theoretically useful, it has yet...
Amanda Quest
Mar 182 min read
Much to do about Consumer Rights Protection in Jamaica: An open letter to the Consumer Affairs Commission of Jamaica
Dear Consumer Affairs Commission of Jamaica, I write as a deeply concerned Jamaican consumer to express my sheer dissatisfaction with...
Amanda Quest
Feb 54 min read
Much to do about Consumer (Rights) Protection in Jamaica: An open letter to Adam Stewart
Mr. Stewart, I am writing to express my sheer disgust with the handling of an ongoing issue by ATL Automotive/Autobahn Limited (“ATL”)....
Amanda Quest
Dec 30, 20245 min read
Letter to the Editor: Continued retention of laws criminalizing abortion undermines women’s enjoyment of the right to a dignified life
We are fast approaching the end of another year yet continue to cling to an anachronistic law that criminalizes abortion categorically....
Amanda Quest
Dec 27, 20242 min read
(Re)Imagining Access to Justice Through UX Design (Part 2)
Whilst access to justice has been recognized as a fundamental right, its realization in practice has often been undermined by resource,...
Amanda Quest
Nov 22, 20245 min read
Letter to the Editor: AI Ethicism will become even more valuable for Jamaica and the Caribbean
AI Ethicism will become even more valuable for Jamaica and the Caribbean. This is but one realization I came to earlier this month as I...
Amanda Quest
Nov 19, 20242 min read

(Re)Imagining Access to Justice through UX Design (Part 1)
*Image Credit: International Commission of Jurists (2024). With the rapid pace of technological advancements in the 21st century, it is...
Amanda Quest
Oct 21, 20244 min read
Letter to the Editor: Still further development of the law in the area of consumer rights protection urgently needed
On September 19, 2024, the Jamaica Gleaner reported that the Supreme Court of Jamaica had ruled against automotive juggernaut ATL...
Amanda Quest
Oct 12, 20243 min read
Good teachers are worth their weight in gold
Every year, World Teacher’s Day, which is commemorated on October 5, presents an important opportunity to honour a very special group of...
Amanda Quest
Oct 5, 20244 min read

Tackling the misuse of Deepfakes in Jamaica
*Image Credit: WIRED. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have increased in...
Amanda Quest
Aug 19, 20245 min read
Repairing and recalibrating trust in AI technologies as a force for good
In life, many universal truths underpin and inform the way we understand and experience our individual and collective realities as human...
Amanda Quest
Jul 26, 20249 min read
The Controversy of Abortion in Jamaica- Policing Wombs To Death
In Jamaica, the subject matter of abortion is as controversial, divisive and “touchy” as it is enigmatic. It is all of the above and more...
Amanda Quest
Jun 19, 20246 min read

On black hair, grooming policies and “respectability politics” in post-colonial Jamaica
*Image Credit- Comrade Sister: Women in the Black Panther Party (ACC Art Books, 2022). It has been over three years since the outcome of...
Amanda Quest
Jun 11, 20247 min read


AN “IMMORTAL LIFE”, A LEGACY OBSCURED: THE CURIOUS CASE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
*Henrietta Lacks circa 1940s. Image Credit: The Henrietta Lacks Foundation. My first encounter with the remarkable story of Henrietta...
Amanda Quest
Jun 5, 20247 min read
Conceptualizing GIs as a pathway to sustainable development in Jamaica (Part 2)
Making the Case With the catapulting of “Brand Jamaica” to astronomical heights of renown— a feat achieved primarily through the vaunted...
Amanda Quest
May 18, 202410 min read
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