• Thu, 24 September 2026

My title is lost, but I need to get the squatters out of the house

QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, Imagine I am allowing someone to stay in my house in Jamaica and my nephew tells me that the house is damaged. I fly down to Jamaica and the Court tell me they need to see the title before I can get a summons processed to get this person out of […]

Review: Stefhen Bryan Has a Story to Tell! – One-Man Play, "Doodu Boy"

Markdown:Thank goodness the title was not an indication of the production I saw on Saturday July 12 at the Soho Playhouse downtown. The penultimate show in the current run of Jamaican Stefhen Bryan’s Doodu Boy was 94 minutes of intimacy, poignancy and heartbreak as on a stark stage, Bryan brings to life the story of […]

‘The Good Samaritan’ gets paid too, in Jamaica court

QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, I have a kind heart, so I wind up being taken advantage of all the time. It dawned on me that maybe there is something I can do, and so I am asking you to assist. On many occasions I do work for people, and then they wind up telling me […]

Immigration and Criminal Convictions

In this month’s article I want to briefly touch on the incarceration and detention of so many of our immigrant community. Recently I attended a meeting of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and I discovered some alarming statistics. “BAJI’s statistics discovered that immigrants of African descent are racially profiled by local police and […]

Why do I need a Jamaica TRN if I have an attorney representing me?

QUESTION: Dear Legal wiz, Why do I need a TRN if someone in Jamaica is applying for probate on my behalfI paid an attorney some funds to apply for probate of a Will for me so that I can get property left by my uncle for me. They took forever, so I asked a friend and gave him […]

Dont shoot the hustling stall owner, there is a solution legally!

QUESTION: Dear Legal wiz, My brother worked his heart out in a shop long after the owner died for at least 20 years. Last year he gave a stall owner permission to use some of the space, and that stall owner is trying to run him out by throwing out his things. When my brother […]

5 Best Jamaican Celebrity Quotes this Week!: "Who Said What?"

I have held the Football World Cup all these country’s playing for… – Usain Bolt (https://www.facebook.com/usainbolt) It’s the first day of Summer, so here’s a reminder why you should visit Jamaica:) – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (https://www.facebook.com/ShellyAnnFraserPryce) “I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face […]