Is it Practical To Plan For Retirement?

As it becomes increasingly difficult for many companies to finance workplace pension plans, and more persons join the ranks of the self-employed, the number of Jamaicans who are currently investing towards their retirement years is woefully inadequate. Studies indicate that private pension arrangements are now covering some 60,000 persons of the approximately 1.3 million people […]

How to Work Less and Earn More

With some amount of trepidation, you decide that you’re finally going to get a grip on your budget. Armed with months of bills and receipts, you painstakingly recreate an outline of your spending plan for the year. After adding up all your expenses, you’re shocked to see that the total monthly income needed to finance […]

How to succeed at any goal

Are you having difficulty achieving your financial goals? Do you desperately want to buy a house of your own, spend a nice vacation in an all-inclusive, or earn enough to stop living off credit cards? Are life’s challenges intervening to make your desires seem like impossible fantasies? Sometimes our goals are elusive because we’re not […]

Coping With Your Parents’ Financial Problems

Steven* was casually reviewing the newspaper’s real estate section when he noticed a familiar address among a long list of properties up for auction. Thinking that there was a mistake in the advertisement, he quickly called his mother to tell her that they had used her house number in error. It took Steven a while […]

Music Review: NYMLA – Memorial Weekend

All weekend I’ve been partying with the grown folks, but I should revise that term, because in reality the party people were of mixed ages.  There were some in their 20s and 30s and then there were also the veterans.  The group I’m talking about – NYMLA, or the New York Music Lovers of America, […]