Review: Monty Alexander’s Express Rolls Again!
On Sunday March 4, 2012 Monty Alexander culminated his sold out two week performance at New York’s famed Blue Note Jazz Club in the west Village. Billed as a dual celebration of Monty’s 50 years in music and Jamaica’s 50th year of independence, the final night of the second week of his NY tour dubbed […]
Race and Class Interaction in Jamaica – And its Impact on the World
In all my years in Jamaica, I never once was asked to identify my “race.” So I find it discomfiting to respond to the questions I frequently get here in America – when I have to fill out some government document, for example. It seems absurd to describe myself as Caucasian or African-American or Hispanic […]
Jamaica Trip Report: Day 4 & 5 – Blue House, Beach, Knutsford Express Shuttle, Election day, Doctor Caves Beach Hotel
Day 4 – Blue House, Beach, Knutsford Express Shuttle, Election day, Doctor Caves Beach HotelToday was our last day at the Blue House and we had only one mission; to get to the beach. It was also Election Day in Jamaica.Breakfast at The Blue House was good as usual. First there were fruits, banana, pineapple […]
My grandmom pays the taxes, how can we run squatters away from land?
QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, My grandmother have some land, which 2 squatters now live on. My grandmother has been paying the taxes and recently surveyed the land also, in pursuit of the title. How can we remove the squatters from the land? Cecil Harley RESPONSE: Dear Cecil Harley, Thanks for writing in. You’re going to […]
Welcome to America
On February 26, 2012 a young black teen, Trayvon Martin, was killed by a neighborhood watch captain as he returned home from the store. As you may have read or heard in the media, the neighborhood watch captain cried self-defense and walked free. Martin was a victim of what is common in America, especially for […]
