Healthy Resolution for the New Year
With the New Year upon us, let us make it our goal in 2004 to make healthy lifestyle choices. In making your New Year’s Healthy Resolutions, first consider what disease or condition you are most at risk for then learn how you can reduce the chances of developing them. If you know that a disease […]
Removal Of Permanent Residents For Deportable Offense Part 2
In last month’s article, I discussed how the immigration authorities define an aggravated felony and the disastrous impact such a conviction can have on permanent resident aliens. In this month’s article, we will look at the impact of INS. vs. St. Cyr. To briefly state the facts of this case: St. Cyr was a Haitian […]
A Feast Of Memories From ‘Lady B’
What better way to reflect on our recent history than through the recollections of a living heroine? The Memoirs of Lady Bustamante (Kingston Publishers), the former Gladys Longbridge, is generously sprinkled with the Who’s Who (I have highlighted the names, though she mentions many more) of the past seventy years and makes great reading for […]
Lesser Known Non-immigrant Visas
One of the lesser-known non-immigrant visas are the O and the P visa. The statutory authority creating the O visa is found in INA Section 101(a)(15)(O) which was added by Section 207 of the Immigration Act of 1990, as modified by sections 204, 205 and 207 of the Miscellaneous and Technical Immigration and Naturalization Amendments […]
Black Men and Parenthood
The family laws of Jamaica/Canada/USA give consent to the notion that both parents have equal responsibilities and rights to raise their children. Both parents have an equal right to the child’s care, education, religion, moral and social upbringing. This is true whether the parents are legally separated or not, married or in a common law […]
Crunch time Online in Jamaica
It is crunch time for online marketers. This country is a hell of a place to be in if you are an online marketer. Even having access to the Internet is beyond most of us. Living in a “Third World” country is very challenging for an online marketer. Survival is the order of the day […]
The Basics for Men: Prostate Cancer
“I don’t want to know if I have it.” Maybe you have said this yourself or heard your father or brother saying this. But what you don’t know can hurt you! Many men fear being diagnosed with prostate cancer more than anything else – and it is with good reason. In 1999, prostate cancer was […]
Brutality Gender Race Part 1
Michael Manley, in 1990 led Jamaicans into liberalization of the Jamaican economy. The free-market capitalist system was unveiled as Jamaica’s most viable alternative for survival in a brave new world marching to a beat of change. The crumbling of communism and release of Nelson Mandela from prison would precede the end of racial apartheid in […]
Miss Missy of Jamaica
Book DescriptionIn a world full of prejudice, you won’t want to miss this story of a beautiful three-year-old from Jamaica and her “American” Mommy. Two hands–one black and one white–touch. Two hearts full of love touch and this love will last a lifetime. This is the story of one love, one heart, one blood. A […]
Black History Month: Steve Biko, You’re Not Forgotten
Black History Month is a time to reflect on those who fought for us to be free and to make sure their moral courage and accomplishments, which we today enjoy, are not tucked away in the pages of our memory but are brought back to the forefront of our thoughts. Steve Biko a Journalist, An […]
