Jewel Fraser

In this Voices from the Global South podcast, Caribbean correspondent Jewel Fraser learns how remote sensing technology can help the region better prepare for natural disasters.

A podcast interview done with Caribbean Natural Resources Institute expert, Alexander Girvan, about a new blue-green economy action plan being launched by the OECS.

An architectural project profile that I wrote on commission as a content writer.
PROJECT: 15 Hudson Yards
LOCATION: New York, NY
COMPLETION: January 2019
HEIGHT: 960,000 
square feet
LEAD ARCHITECT: Diller 
Scofidio + Renfro
LEAD INTERIOR ARCHITECT: Rockwell Group
FACADE DESIGN CONSULTANT: Neil Thelen Architect
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT: 
Ismael Leyva Architects
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: 
WSP Cantor Seinuk
MEP ENGINEERS: Jaros Baum 
& Bolles
CONTRACTOR: Tutor Perini
BUILDING ENVELOPE CONSULTANT:...

Anguilla's fishers take to Youtube to talk about the impacts climate change is having on their industry.

This story, published the same day as the youth protests across Europe over climate action, highlights concerns about the international climate agenda and governments' role.

A story for Thomson Reuters Foundation on Caribbean hotels' efforts to green their operations.

Story features interviews with senior management of the Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator whose launch was announced by the World Bank, IDB and Branson's Virgin Unite.

This story describes Grenada's success in obtaining a grant through the Green Climate Fund to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies for its water sector in the light of climate change impacts.

A press release commissioned by TSTT that I wrote about an event where their CIO spoke.

Story on region's research into mercury contamination

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PORT OF SPAIN, Oct 9 2018 (IPS) - Recent research at a centre in Guyana shows that some types of butterflies and lizards in the Amazon have been seeking shelter from the heat as Amazonian temperatures rise.
The CEIBA Biological Centre (CEIBA), in Madewini, Guyana, under its executive d...

If you think the news is a battleground now, you should have been in Trinidad in August 1969. That’s when the Trinidad Express refused to stop covering the story of Dr. Leonard Hanna, a Black American dentist, and his wife, who’d been turned away from the Trinidad Country Club tennis courts despite their staying at a nearby Hilton whose guests were routinely allowed use of the club’s facilities. The Hannas’ taxi driver, irate, took them to share their story with the Express.
Then came the bac...

Tall and well-groomed, Brian Rochester has eyes that smile when he talks about the fellowship he says exists between Chinese immigrants and Trinidadians of African or Indian descent at the Grace Chapel church in the heart of Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. Richards, in his mid-30s, has for the past three years been pastor of the church, home to a Chinese Christian Fellowship congregation where 50 members regularly meet. But look beyond the church, and things appear less ros...