The Debt Trap
Credit card offers may seem like easy money to some, especially the young, naïve and innocent. Being able to buy something now, charging it on the card and paying it back later sounds convenient, easy, a fantasy five dream come true. But what if your limit starts at $500US when you are still in high […]
Kingston Red Hot
Our Morning Revolution News Team this month has sifted through the streets of the Third Worlds’ most famous city, without the editorial dictate of Area Dons and henchmen to prepare a scathing report. We are letting the world in on the most happening hotspot on the planet. Kingston, JAMAICA… Concrete Jungle, Beaston City, Killtown, Port […]
Jamaica Year In Review
We did this back in 2000-2001 and I am back with it in 2002. In a Year when we averaged 3 murders daily and recorded as many as 16 police officers snuffed down in the line of duty by year end, 2002 will be remembered by most as the year when PJ Patterson silenced his […]
Lord Have Mercy TV series in Canada
New sitcom “Lord Have Mercy!” to premiere during Black History Month. VisionTV plans to launch the groundbreaking new multi-cultural situation comedy “Lord Have Mercy!” with a special television event during Black History Month in February. The network will broadcast all 13 world premiere episodes of the series over three successive evenings, starting Feb. 11. The […]
Ponder This During Black History Month
Cold days, dark mornings, early nights, winter blah – that’s what February is about. It is the month for final contribution to your RSP, claimable for the fiscal year. In addition to all this, it is Black History Month. I have a burning question. Whose bright idea was it to select the coldest month in […]
Visas For Nurses – Immigration Tips
How does a nurse obtain an immigrant visa to the U.S.? The Immigration Act of 1990 (IMACT 1990), and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), retained nurses on schedule A, Group I. Congress, by doing this, has determined that there are not sufficient nurses to satisfy the national shortage, which […]
Jamaican Style Dominoes In Canada
One of the more interesting and “vocal” sports Jamaicans are known for, has been played in many basements, barbershops, in the back rooms of many bars and in the past thirty years, competitive clubs have been organized to demonstrate the abilities of players. Many of the larger cities in Canada can boast the activities of […]
The Upliftment Of My Jamaican Community
By the time Claude, Merrick, Vernon and myself all-inclusive of the new “One Love Rudy Jamaicans” got to high school we were referred to as the “streetwise kids”. This was when there were only potty pan buses pon the road and boorish conductors would heckle and abuse students to and from school while striking for […]
New Home and Family – Memoirs Of An Illegal Alien Part 2
The walk from immigration to baggage claim was a nervous one. I kept thinking were they going to come back to check on me to be sure I would only be here for six months. I got my baggage and was outside the terminal in the underground pick up area. There were lines of cars […]
Interview with Colin Channer
Colin Channer is the author of two novels, a novella and many short stories. His first novel “Waiting In Vain” was selected as a 1998 Critic’s Choice by the Washington Post Book World. It was also excerpted in Hot Spots: The Best Erotic Writing In Modern Fiction. His novella “I’m Still Waiting” was published in […]
