Define “Diaspora”?
The term ‘diaspora’ is currently in fashionable use, but in the context that we use it – what does it actually mean? By ‘diaspora’ are we referring only to persons of Jamaican birth resident outside of Jamaica or does the _expression include say persons who qualify for a Jamaican passport through maternal/paternal heritage – i.e., […]
Reality Check
As a child in Jamaica, my father always opens the car door for me and I love that about him. He had other flaws I didn’t care for which I suppress in the back of my mind for awhile. I did not watch any form of television adapting other culture lifestyles or ways. But I […]
The Mentally Challenged Street People
Day after day we pass them, disoriented and forgotten. Lost in a world that is so unkind and unfriendly. Their existence to the vast majority is just as insignificant as their sufferings, and they are looked down on in the same sense of casualness as animals that likewise roam the streets. Yet, they are really […]
What Jamaicans over Yard don’t know about dis Jamaican?
Some Jamaicans over yard may feel like Jamaicans in the United State is a sell out, foreigner, betray their country, no longer a yardie, forgot about their country and believe We have a lot of dunzie (money). But what some Jamaicans over yard don’t know about the few Jamaicans like myself is that we have […]
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
It was a typical traveling day in the tropics. Well bronzed tourists getting ready to board their flights back home, lingering in the airport; in two minds about extending their time in paradise or getting back to the “real world”. New arrivals scurrying through immigration eager to get their vacation started. I too was anxious […]
The Games Must Go On While People Suffer
I find it mind boggling that collectively the caribbean islands will raise $400 million dollars for cricket…. when if they could do that they could create 8000 —$50,000.00 a piece homes for 8000 families and then do it again and again till it was all paid off for everyone to have decent housing…. maybe it […]
Death and Taxes
Last week my father in law passed away. Yes he died he was 80 years old and only missed 81 by a couple of months. His final year was spent in Florida a place he loved. He wanted to be taken care of at home when things got bad. He was taken care of by […]
How Can I As A Single Jamaican Parent Save My Son
I was born in Jamaica in a two parent household and so I figure I too would have a mate with children. I dreamt of being married, have my own home, children and being financially stable. But what I dreamt, fantasize about, somehow things did not turn out the way I desire, need it to […]
Is God Deaf?
“Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.” (Daniel 10:12, KJV) Most religious people would probably consider our lead question sacrilegious. Perhaps some would […]
Interview with Carol Lawton an advocate for a Jamaican Diaspora Senator
Your recently started a campaign to get a Diaspora representative in the Jamaican Government. Explain why you believe Jamaicans overseas needs a Diaspora representative in the Jamaican Government? CL: Jamaicans overseas needs a representative in government because when we left Jamaica, we did not abandon Jamaica. Every year we return home to pay taxes, visit, […]