How To Manage Your Money

In a recent column entitled “The 3 Ms of  Money,” we discussed the principles of financial achievement – managing, multiplying and maintaining your money. Over the coming weeks, we will examine these three pathways to money success in greater detail. The key to managing your money is knowing what to do with the money that […]

American Gun Control Laws Are a Matter of Life and Death to Its Neighbors

The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives Americans the right to “bear arms.” This right has been persistently interpreted to mean that common-sense gun control laws are unconstitutional. So, in America there are repeated incidents of mass murder, which could have been avoided if weapons were harder to obtain. This sad state of affairs has […]

Jamaican Tourism hi-jacked by Mad-man

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A disoriented young man with a gun forced his way past security and barged onto a jetliner destined for Cuba, taking the crew hostage, firing a bullet that grazed the co-pilot’s face and demanding to be flown off the island, witnesses and police said Monday. Mi  cyannot even get a finganail […]

May 28 – June 01 Canouan Regatta

A festival of boat races, sports and games, calypso competitions, street jump and beauty pageant For further information on Canouan Regatta please contact: Mr. Carlos McLaurean Tel:  784-458-8197 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              784-458-8197      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Interview with Capoeira Instructor Dennis Eckart

This month we intervew Dennis Eckart a Capoeira instructor who lives in Jamaica. Created in Brazil by the slaves brought from Africa, Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that involves movements from martial arts, and dance. It was created some time after the 16th century in the regions known as Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro in […]

Looking for a Place to Park Your Yacht in Southern Belize?

San Ignacio, Belize, April 10, 2009 –(PR.com)– The Toledo district of Belize has never had a marina. That will soon change as the Orange Point Marina Corp. has decided to sell its 20 acre Marina development for 1.2 Million dollars. Although not totally finished (the vendor claims $200,000 U.S. required to complete) it looks like […]

World Health Day 7th April 2009

It is worth remembering on this World Health Day that the leading cause of death in Barbados, as indeed it is internationally, is heart disease. So here in Barbados one of the greatest challenges is how to overcome this non-communicable disease. The Heart & Stroke Foundation Inc. founded in 1985 is a non-governmental organisation and […]

The Book of Night Women – Jamaican Book Review

Marlon James

About The Book – THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN by MARLON JAMES The Book of Night Women by Marlon James is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth […]

Jamaicans.com 2009 Book Drive

Support The 8th Jamaicans.com Annual Jamaica Book Drive.The next three months, (April – June 2009) Jamaicans.com is holding a book drive to benefit the Allen-Shaw Reading Room in Jamaica with a goal of collecting 80 children’s books by June 30th, 2009. We are asking for your help. We hope to distribute the books in Jamaica by August […]