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 […]
The Reggae-Lution Must Be Televised
REGGAE INDUSTRY PETITIONS GRAMMY AWARDS TO BE INCLUDED I N THE TELECAST Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Michael Rose, Puma Jones, and Duckie Simpson took several historical leaps when they stood up before The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences and walked across the stage to receive a small token of the American public’s admiration […]
Fight the Fear
In the movie Cool Runnings, during the team tryouts, they showed old film footage of crashes to a room full of potential bobsledders and by the end of the screening, the room was empty. In reality, on the first day when they showed the footage there were about forty potential bobsledders – and about half […]
Does Overseas Aid Affects The Extradition Policy Of Jamaica?
One of the effects of continuous aid and charity is that it subconsciously makes the recipient feel he owes the donor a favour and makes him hesitate to challenge the actions and statements of this donor with whom he disagrees. This line of reasoning is not debatable and their are numerous examples in business and […]
Book Review – Benjamin, My Son
Review from Daily GleanerAuthor: Geoffrey PhilpReviewer: Tanya BatsonPublisher: Peepal Tree Press THE BOOK Benjamin, My Son by Geoffrey Philp presents a picture of the harrowing leap from boyhood to manhood in Jamaica. The leap is a treacherous one, not merely because becoming an adult is such a confusing thing, but because like Jason Stewart, the […]
Jamaican Women and Breast Cancer Awareness
October is breast cancer awareness month and this year, it is estimated that over one million women world wide will be diagnosed with breast cancer. It is second only to lung cancer as the most diagnosed form of cancer and is one of the leading causes of death among women, second to heart disease. Over […]
Back in the land of their ancestors
“I am in love with a beautiful woman,” says Theo Chambers. And he looks, not at his lovely wife Sharon who smiles indulgently, but at the sky, sea and sand on this brilliant Negril afternoon. “She has 14 children,” he continues, “and I love every single one.” Theo, is of course referring to Jamaica and […]
Yaad a run red Iyah …as told by Maurice Drysdale
Iyah yu si how de place a run? We cyaan jus sidung soh an nuh do nutten. Weh yu seh? Jamaica. No problem! A figment of our collective imagination. Under the watchful eyes of the current regime our country has denigrated into a Hobbesian state of nature where life is now “nasty, brutish and short”. […]