I am writing this on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Ontario, Canada. Yesterday, the worst hurricane in the history of my beloved Jamaica hit the country. A category five hurricane is incredibly rare and never in the history of our country were we ever faced with such a dangerous storm. Hurricane Melissa was the strongest hurricane in recorded history in the Atlantic to make landfall.  Those of us in the diaspora, (and there are literally MILLIONS of us), likely have memorie

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