Resilience Through
Strategy, Story & Impact

Emergency Management | Food & Economic Security | Climate Adaptation | Community-Led Recovery This is where our journey begins.

When Disaster Strikes, Communities Respond First

When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica in 2025, it exposed serious weaknesses in formal disaster systems but it also revealed the Caribbean’s greatest strength: its people.

This book explains how Caribbean communities respond long before official aid arrives and why traditional disaster frameworks often fail in the region.

Inside the book, readers will learn:

  1. Why imported disaster models don’t work in the Caribbean
  2. How families, churches, markets, and communities save lives
  3. The role of informal economies in recovery
  4. What governments must change to build real resilience
  5. How culture strengthens survival and rebuilding

 

 

Resilience in the Caribbean - Volume 2

Resilience in the Caribbean – Volume 2 is an applied learning companion designed to transform Caribbean disaster theory into practical, operational, and culturally grounded action. Building on the core text, this volume equips students, practitioners, policymakers, and regional institutions with real-world case studies, decision tools, and structured workbook exercises rooted in Caribbean realities.

This volume bridges the gap between theory and practice by translating Caribbean disaster resilience concepts into:

Inside the book, readers will learn:

  1. Applied case studies
  2. Policy-relevant analysis
  3. Academic and professional learning tools
  4. Disaster Studies

 

 

Reflective Waters - The Fulcrum on Which Injustice Pivots

Reflective Waters: The Fulcrum on Which Injustice Pivots is a gripping narrative nonfiction that exposes how abuse, power, and systemic bias can distort justice. Through one father’s painful journey, the book reveals how truth is silenced, families are fractured, and resilience becomes the only path forward.

  • A powerful narrative nonfiction exposing how justice systems can fail vulnerable parents.
  • Follows a father trapped in an abusive relationship marked by control, fear, and manipulation.
  • Shows how emotional and physical abuse escalates behind closed doors.
  • Reveals how children become leverage in battles for power.
  • Explores how courts misread fear as aggression and silence as guilt.