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TO HELL & BACK

Shelly-Ann embraces a new day after a lifetime of abuse & an unjust charge for murder

By UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica

August 9^th, 2023

Footnotes Text by UNDP Communications Analyst, Gillian Scott. Thanks to UNDP Spotlight Initiative programme manager, Shellian Forrester and thanks to teams from St Thomas and Clarendon Municipal Corporation and Clarendon Parish Development Benevolent Society for facilitating the interviews. Photos by Ricardo Makyn for UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica

© 2025 UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica

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