Hurricane Melissa again revealed the cost of centralised fragility. But, distributed rooftop solar offers households resilience where transmission lines repeatedly fail. When households generate energy, they gain protection from outages, fuel price shocks, and rising living costs.

Knowing promotion of climate-change denial anywhere in CARICOM should be a criminal offence, especially when done to project and/or protect “billioneering” for private gain. After Jamaica's Melissa and Baryl cases, that position is no longer radical; it is elementary self-defence. To keep licensing, subsidising, or platforming climate liars is to aid and abet future Melissa-like disasters and their psychological carnage. Taylor is right...READ MORE