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”. […]
Becoming a Resident of Jamaica by American Retiree in Jamaica
Becoming a permanent resident takes a minimum of three years. There are several documents to acquire and annual trips to immigration in Kingston. This is the only place on the island that can do this procedure. To begin this process, a visa must be obtained from the Jamaican Embassy in your native land. You also […]
Does Jamaicans For (Selected) Justice And Human Rights Watch Contributes To Jamaica’s High Crime Rate?
Continuous aid and charity brainwashes the individual recipient and country into thinking that success is achievable without having to pay the requisite price. This is directly related to the “war on crime”. The citizenry is so brainwashed that they will demonstrate against police shootings but they have no heart to demonstrate against the murderous gunmen, […]
Log on to Christian e-ministry part 2 – The online crusade for the Repentance of the cyber generation!
The more I roamed the internet and hit flesh pots I was disturbed by the pictures, the content and the fact that innocent souls were being suckered by what was a powerful underground pornography industry. I knew that mounting a campaign against porn had been met with limited success. Creatively thinking, I thought appealing to […]
Y’u noh hear wha gwaan dung a Yaad?
For many Jamaicans living aboard, keeping in touch with the latest happenings back home means reading online among other websites, The Jamaica-Gleaner. At times, information from a “whistling bird” received on a phone call from “back a yard” spreads like those computerized worm infested e-mails to every yardy ears, or perhaps in similarity to ” […]
Habitat for Humanity Jamaica: Building homes, Changing lives, one family at a time.
Habitat for Humanity Jamaica is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to eradicate sub-standard housing on the island of Jamaica by building homes for families in need. Our mission also includes a commitment to making the provision of decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. We are a registered company approved under the Approved […]
Jamaicans.Com Interview With The Consul General Of Jamaica, C.P. Ricardo Allicock
This month we pose “10 questions” to Mr. Ricardo Allicock Consul-General to the Southern United States. Mr. Allicock was appointed Jamaica’s Consul-General to the Southern United States, September 2002. Based at the Miami Consulate, Mr. Allicock’s duties cover thirteen southern states, extending to Arizona.Previously, Mr. Allicock served the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade […]
A conversation with Larry Chang, Chinese-Jamaican gay political activist
Larry Chang he is a, Chinese-Jamaican gay man, political activist and founding member of the Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals & Gays, J-FLAG. Recently the international scrutiny of anti-homosexual lyrics in Jamaican music has focused on dancehall artist. Over the past 2 years dancehall artists have been banned from venues, dropped from concerts, warned of […]