Diana Thorburn 🇯🇲
@DRThorburn
Writer | Director of Research @capricaribbean | Author of Mayer Matalon’s bio | Mainly here to talk about evidence-based policy in Jamaica 🇯🇲
Before I post about how luxury beliefs prevent us from lowering our homicide rate, I want to get something clear: I'm not against social interventions. Only 8% of children's mental health needs are currently being met. We desperately need children's mental health services. 1/11
Great work being done by outstanding, dedicated people supported by the best board of directors ever 💙
Some great work being done at @BVHofficialja ! 👏🏾👏🏾 Patients have access to freshly grown produce.
If you needed any more proof that ungoverned spaces—even small ones, in the most formal (here read uptown) communities—provide safe haven for bad actors (aka gunmen/gangsters)
The real story is in this article. Not often a journalist gets it right, in such detail.
Trinidad & Tobago’s murder rate has overtaken #Jamaica’s, and is second in the #Caribbean only to Haiti. Why? #TrinidadandTobago telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…