Tag: domestic violence

  • ‘Cockroach Nuh Business Inna Fowl Fight’: Violence against Jamaican Women

    ‘Cockroach Nuh Business Inna Fowl Fight’: Violence against Jamaican Women

    Last year a former colleague; daughter, friend, mother, sister, aunt was violently taken from us by her partner of more than ten years, who subsequently took his own life in the same incident. A young man lost his mother, and we are left with more questions than answers, and more grief. I’ve heard these stories so many times, but never once would I have thought that I’d be touched by it so directly.

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