Skip’s PC’s for School’s
Long time board member Skip Wagner & wife Jeanne are regular visitors to Jamaica and always enjoy a great time at Sandals, Ocho Rios. This year they gave back some of those ‘good vibes’ by donating a computer to Galina Primary School located in St. Mary. On October 7th, Skip and Jeanne visited the school […]
Removal Of Permanent Residents For Deportable Offense
REMOVAL OF PERMANENT RESIDENTS FOR DEPORTABLE OFFENSE Since 09/11, the most significant upheaval of the U.S. government since the 1940’s occurred when President Bush signed into law, legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security. The Immigration and Naturalization service became defunct, and was replaced with the Bureau of Immigration and Citizenship Enforcement. As a […]
Cervix Cancer: Preventable Through Detection
Why were there almost 500 cases of cervical cancer in Jamaica in year 2000? Why were there over 200 deaths of cervical cancer in Jamaica in year 2000?* In Jamaica and the Caribbean, women are dying from one of the most easily preventable, detectable and treatable cancers. This is due largely in part to women […]
Jamaica 2003 Year in Review
We did this back in 2000, 2001 and 2002. I am back with it in 2003. Inclusive of Winners and Losers in Jamaican public affairs 2003 and the Future outlook for a promising New Year 2k4. As the sun sets on the old year, the jamaicans.com family acknowledges its passing by sharing with you the […]
Ready for the Revolution
These are difficult and dark days for our nation. Our future, the Future of the next generation, our children, are threatened. As matured citizens we have a responsibility from which we ought not to hide. Despair and apathy are among the most debilitating forces challenging the Jamaican community. As we prepare to begin the New […]
Healthy Resolution for the New Year
With the New Year upon us, let us make it our goal in 2004 to make healthy lifestyle choices. In making your New Year’s Healthy Resolutions, first consider what disease or condition you are most at risk for then learn how you can reduce the chances of developing them. If you know that a disease […]
Removal Of Permanent Residents For Deportable Offense Part 2
In last month’s article, I discussed how the immigration authorities define an aggravated felony and the disastrous impact such a conviction can have on permanent resident aliens. In this month’s article, we will look at the impact of INS. vs. St. Cyr. To briefly state the facts of this case: St. Cyr was a Haitian […]
A Feast Of Memories From ‘Lady B’
What better way to reflect on our recent history than through the recollections of a living heroine? The Memoirs of Lady Bustamante (Kingston Publishers), the former Gladys Longbridge, is generously sprinkled with the Who’s Who (I have highlighted the names, though she mentions many more) of the past seventy years and makes great reading for […]
Lesser Known Non-immigrant Visas
One of the lesser-known non-immigrant visas are the O and the P visa. The statutory authority creating the O visa is found in INA Section 101(a)(15)(O) which was added by Section 207 of the Immigration Act of 1990, as modified by sections 204, 205 and 207 of the Miscellaneous and Technical Immigration and Naturalization Amendments […]
Black Men and Parenthood
The family laws of Jamaica/Canada/USA give consent to the notion that both parents have equal responsibilities and rights to raise their children. Both parents have an equal right to the child’s care, education, religion, moral and social upbringing. This is true whether the parents are legally separated or not, married or in a common law […]