Diana McCaulay
@dmccaulay.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Environmentalist. Jamaican. Founder of the Jamaica Environment Trust. Now on my 6th novel, A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE, 25 Feb 2025.
Post modern hotel rooms should come with a manual. Even the simple light switch is no longer so simple #uptownproblems #yesamaboomer
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Post modern hotel rooms should come with a manual. Even the simple light switch is no longer so simple #uptownproblems #yesamaboomer
I love it how airlines thank you for your patience when they announce a two hour delay and you've already been at the airport 2-3 hours. What choice do we have, other to be patient and long suffering?
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I love it how airlines thank you for your patience when they announce a two hour delay and you've already been at the airport 2-3 hours. What choice do we have, other to be patient and long suffering?
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“COP30 was supposed to be the COP of truth and implementation. Unless nations reckon with the ugly truths revealed here, there will be major repercussions for multilateral climate agreements and more importantly, for the lives of communities who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
#COP30
#COP30
COP30 Barely Delivers, Rich Nations Continue to Force Inequitable Climate Outcomes
COP30 barely delivers on adaptation, climate finance, fossil fuel phaseout, but important just transition progress made
www.ucs.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“COP30 was supposed to be the COP of truth and implementation. Unless nations reckon with the ugly truths revealed here, there will be major repercussions for multilateral climate agreements and more importantly, for the lives of communities who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
#COP30
#COP30
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Bali is pressing ahead with plans to guarantee that all private beaches remain accessible to the public, following growing complaints that hotels, villas and beach clubs are shutting residents out of shoreline areas that should remain open to everyone. www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
Bali moves to stop hotels blocking public beach access
Bali’s governor hopes to pass a new regulation banning private beaches by the end of 2025.
www.euronews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Bali is pressing ahead with plans to guarantee that all private beaches remain accessible to the public, following growing complaints that hotels, villas and beach clubs are shutting residents out of shoreline areas that should remain open to everyone. www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
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Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...
Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record » Yale Climate Connections
At landfall in western Jamaica, Melissa’s 185 mph winds and 892 mb pressure tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys as the strongest on record for the Atlantic.
yaleclimateconnections.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...
A new Substack essay from me on Hurricane Melissa. You can sign up for free for new articles - about every two weeks. My modest goal is 500 subscribers - might you help me make that? I write about island life, books and the environment. open.substack.com/pub/dianamcc...
Hurricane Melissa - the aftermath II
18 days after the hurricane hit Jamaica
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A new Substack essay from me on Hurricane Melissa. You can sign up for free for new articles - about every two weeks. My modest goal is 500 subscribers - might you help me make that? I write about island life, books and the environment. open.substack.com/pub/dianamcc...
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We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Its winds reached 295 kph and dumped over a metre of rain in parts of Jamaica as it left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.A rapid analysis from London’s Imperial College shows human driven climate change may have made the storm more likely,and more intense www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Could storms like Melissa become more common as the planet warms?
Experts estimate that Melissa was about 10 per cent stronger because of climate change.
www.euronews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Its winds reached 295 kph and dumped over a metre of rain in parts of Jamaica as it left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.A rapid analysis from London’s Imperial College shows human driven climate change may have made the storm more likely,and more intense www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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Which is why we have made “Rovina’s Choice.” We cannot let the people affected – the health workers like those at Clinic 7 and the families like Rovina Naboi’s — go unseen. And we cannot let the consequences go unaccounted for.
YouTube link: 🎥 6/
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YouTube link: 🎥 6/
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"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Which is why we have made “Rovina’s Choice.” We cannot let the people affected – the health workers like those at Clinic 7 and the families like Rovina Naboi’s — go unseen. And we cannot let the consequences go unaccounted for.
YouTube link: 🎥 6/
youtu.be/Oj0PsaP2ZqQ?...
YouTube link: 🎥 6/
youtu.be/Oj0PsaP2ZqQ?...
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Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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#HurricaneMelissa was made about four times more likely by the #climatecrisis
It's real, it's us, and it's here
www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...
It's real, it's us, and it's here
www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...
Hurricane Melissa
Published October 2025.
www.imperial.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#HurricaneMelissa was made about four times more likely by the #climatecrisis
It's real, it's us, and it's here
www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...
It's real, it's us, and it's here
www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...
Thank you Laetitia. Kingston was largely spared, but news from the western end of the island is devastating.. #hurricanemelissa
So sad to hear of the devastating effects of Storm Melissa. And so soon after Storm Beryl hitting Jamaica last year. Terrifying news.
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thank you Laetitia. Kingston was largely spared, but news from the western end of the island is devastating.. #hurricanemelissa
Thinking about Jamaica, threatened by Tropical Storm Melissa. Hoping for everyone's safety and minimal damage.. I am far away just now..
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Thinking about Jamaica, threatened by Tropical Storm Melissa. Hoping for everyone's safety and minimal damage.. I am far away just now..
Dear airlines, please stop sending me surveys. We all know they are ignored in their entirety. Looking at you in particular, @aa.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Dear airlines, please stop sending me surveys. We all know they are ignored in their entirety. Looking at you in particular, @aa.com
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“It has certainly merited its place among contemporary Jamaican classics that will be remembered in the newly defined literary scene of the 21st century”, writes Keenan Falconer in his review of @dmccaulay.bsky.social's most recent novel, A House for Miss Pauline
Full review on our website
Full review on our website
October 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“It has certainly merited its place among contemporary Jamaican classics that will be remembered in the newly defined literary scene of the 21st century”, writes Keenan Falconer in his review of @dmccaulay.bsky.social's most recent novel, A House for Miss Pauline
Full review on our website
Full review on our website
Lovely to see this - one of the judges for the Wilbur Smith Prize for Adventure Writing on each of the shortlisted books, including #aHouseforMissPauline
NEW: Fighter pilot Nathan Gray talks us through the six brilliant books shortlisted for this year's Wilbur Smith Prize for Adventure Writing:
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The Best Adventure Novels: The 2025 Wilbur Smith Prize
Adventure means something different for everyone, says Nathan Gray, former fighter pilot and a judge for this year's Wilbur Smith Prize for Adventure Writing. He talks us through the brilliant books…
fivebooks.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Lovely to see this - one of the judges for the Wilbur Smith Prize for Adventure Writing on each of the shortlisted books, including #aHouseforMissPauline
Jane Goodall - may her memory be a blessing and a guide...
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Jane Goodall - may her memory be a blessing and a guide...
A shell I saw on Piha Beach in New Zealand. Sea and sky, I thought. I left it there. #elsewhere #travelling
September 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A shell I saw on Piha Beach in New Zealand. Sea and sky, I thought. I left it there. #elsewhere #travelling
Likkl good news...
For roughly the price of an inner-city apartment, not-for-profit group Nooramunga Land and Sea (NL&S) has purchased multiple small islands off the coast of Gippsland, with the sole aim of protecting the environments from development forever. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Not-for-profit buys islands off Victoria to save them from development
For roughly the price of an inner-city apartment, conservationists have bought multiple small islands off the coast of Gippsland to protect their ecosystems and wildlife.
www.abc.net.au
September 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Likkl good news...
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@jamentrust1991.bsky.social issued a fantastic new report on work to #SaveCockpitCountry.
Check it out! jamentrust.org/download/bey...
Check it out! jamentrust.org/download/bey...
September 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@jamentrust1991.bsky.social issued a fantastic new report on work to #SaveCockpitCountry.
Check it out! jamentrust.org/download/bey...
Check it out! jamentrust.org/download/bey...
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Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever.
We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!
We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever.
We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!
We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!
Dear boot companies- I know I made the fundamental error of glancing at a nice pair of new boots on social media- but PLEASE stop with the boot ads! I now hate all boots on principle... possibly even all shoes...
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Dear boot companies- I know I made the fundamental error of glancing at a nice pair of new boots on social media- but PLEASE stop with the boot ads! I now hate all boots on principle... possibly even all shoes...
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Go go go book on in! Leone Ross is a titan of the literary world.
If you're a fiction writer of 5,000 words I can't recommend Leone's guidance and sharp eye enough.
If you're a fiction writer of 5,000 words I can't recommend Leone's guidance and sharp eye enough.
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Go go go book on in! Leone Ross is a titan of the literary world.
If you're a fiction writer of 5,000 words I can't recommend Leone's guidance and sharp eye enough.
If you're a fiction writer of 5,000 words I can't recommend Leone's guidance and sharp eye enough.
September 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thoughtful review of A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE in Caribbean Beat thanks to Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-190/bo...
#grateful
#aHouseforMissPauline
#grateful
#aHouseforMissPauline
Book buzz | Reviews (Sep/Oct 2025) | Caribbean Beat Magazine
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay; The Proper Care of Knives by Anu Lakhan; Between Islands by Rhys Knowle...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thoughtful review of A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE in Caribbean Beat thanks to Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-190/bo...
#grateful
#aHouseforMissPauline
#grateful
#aHouseforMissPauline