• Sun, 16 August 2026

No maintenance paid by owner for Jamaican apartment

QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, One of the apartment owners in the building I manage refuse to pay for the maintenance. The National Housing Trust sold the apartments under the strata plan, but he is still paying mortgage. I want to take him to court, but dont know what I need, and I am confused about […]

“I miss the unique smell of Jamaica!!!! ” – SMILE JAMAICA PHOTOS

Our feature “Smile Jamaica” highlights some positives about Jamaica and Jamaicans. We asked the question “what is the one thing you miss about Jamaica?” at the South Florida Jerk Festival  – Photo by X. Murphy “I miss the unique smell of Jamaica!”   The “Smile Jamaica” series is open to anyone who loves Jamaica and/or […]

Paralyzed Man Uses Unique Method for Painting of Usain Bolt

  Henry Fraser, 23, of the United Kingdom, was paralyzed in a diving accident at the age of 17. However, he has never let his disability outweigh his love for art and has been using his iPad to do drawings using a stick held in his mouth. He also does portraits in pencil and paints […]

Aunty Roachy Festival Returns to Independence Village, August 3, 2015

The Independence Village will see the return of The Aunty Roachy Festival this year on Monday, August 3. Joining the Independence Village roster for the second time, the free literary festival will run from 1:30 – 5:30 pm and promises to be even better the second time around covering a range of poetry, prose and […]

JAMPACT 2015 Annual School Supply Drive Extended Until August 3rd

New York, NY – Jamaica Impact Inc. (JAMPACT) has been supporting Early Childhood Institutions and other schools in underserved low-income areas on the island of Jamaica for the past 17 years.  Over the years the organization has partnered with other non-profits and companies such as Golden Krust to provide well needed supplies, computers, classroom equipment as […]

Where is the Black Man’s Government? Marcus Garvey and the Founding of the UNIA

On August 1st, 1914, Jamaican national hero Marcus Garvey, at only 27 years old, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) as a means of uniting all of Africa and its diaspora into ‘one grand racial hierarchy’. The vision for the UNIA came to Garvey upon reading Up from Slavery, the […]

Hot for “Cheerleader:” Jamaican Singer, OMI Hit Ranks at Top of Hot 100 Chart

While it may seem that Jamaica’s OMI has achieved overnight success with his Number 1 hit “Cheerleader,” the singer has actually been working on the reggae-pop song for some seven years. OMI first released the track in 2012 with Oufah, a Jamaican label. In 2014, a remix of the song was released by Felix Jaehn, […]

Dancing in the eye of the Storm, Reggae Jam Germany 2015 Review

Last weekend before heading out to this year´s Reggae Jam Germany, I posted to my Facebook account about how much this relatively small reggae festival of 12,000 always reminds me of festivals back home in Jamaica. Minus the overzealous policing that we were subject to last year pre and post festival, it is undoubtedly one […]

Waiting for Emancipation Day

Arguably, the strongest point of shared history between Afro-Caribbean and African-American communities is the blight of slavery. But Caribbean slaves in the British colonies won their freedom some 30 years before American slaves were granted theirs. The British Caribbean islands celebrate “Emancipation Day” on August 1st or the first Monday in August. It is the […]