Part 2 of Becoming a Permanent Resident of Jamaica by American Retiree in Jamaica

In part 1, I gave you the requirements for becoming a permanent resident. My wife and I had completed 5 out of the 9 requirements during the initial meeting. All that remained to do was get passport photos, a doctor’s certificate, two references, and a police report from Massachusetts. At the end of the article […]

Easy Does It The ‘Easy Way’

EASY DOES IT THE ‘EASY WAY’ On his first day of football practice at Everett High School in Massachusetts, Jamaican-born Omar Easy, showed up with soccer shin pads instead of a helmet. His journey from Jamaican football to American football paralleled his journey from Jamaica to America—marked with a myriad of obstacles and uncertainty. Battling […]

Poor people fed up…and still hungry

‘Jamaica’s fight against Poverty’   Recently, there has been some discussion on the efficacy of the government’s poverty eradication programmes, highlighting the fact that poverty in Jamaica has been halved over the past 13 years. That time frame, since 1992, happens to coincide with the reign of Prime Minister P J Patterson. Wha P.J. don’t […]