• Fri, 25 September 2026

Immigration: The Pros and Cons of a Two-Year Conditional Green Card

Recently my firm has been inundated with calls from individuals who have filed their Application to Remove the Conditions on their two-year green card, (Form I-751), and now they are scheduled for an interview or Immigration has sent them a Request for Evidence or a Notice of Intent to Deny letter. All of these scenarios […]

I need to check who owns the Jamaica house left by my mom

QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, My mother passed away recently and there was no will.  My father is still living and claims that he has a title to the house/land both he and my mother owned.  However, upon checking on the status of this property at the tax office it was discovered that the property was […]

2013 Protest March of 1963 Coral Gardens Massacre in Jamaica peaceful

See more photos in our Photo Gallery Three years before the April 1966 visit of Emperor Selassie to Jamaica, a massive massacre of Rastafarians took place on March 16, in St James. The Rastafarian Community annually commemorates this as ‘Bad Friday’, coinciding with the celebration of ‘Good Friday’ in Christendom. That thousands of Rastafarians were […]

My dead dad left a house in Jamaica for us and we cant live there

QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, My dead dad left a will. One of the houses is to be shared for all his children of my mother. The other house is for my step mom who he later married and her children. The step mother is preventing us from entering the house left for my maternal siblings […]

Jamaicans in Business: Gordon Swaby, CEO, EduFocal

At 14, Gordon created his first major website, and at 15, he created, perhaps the largest gaming website in the English speaking Caribbean, the now defunct advance-gamers.com. Gordon is  the CEO and Founder of EduFocal.com. EduFocal is an interactive learning community. The company is focused on using technology to enrich the learning experience outside of […]

I need to add 96-yr-old mom’s surname to Jamaican birth certificate

QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, My 96-yr-old mom is getting a piece of land as a deed of gift from her former employer. She never got married. However on her birth certificate her date of birth is incorrect and her last name is absent. Her national id is showing a misspelling for her name, and incorrect […]

Review: First Annual Kingston City Run, March 10, 2013

Jamaica, known as home of the world’s fastest man and the birthplace of many world class sprinters. With media focus primarily on our sprinters, I am sure many people around the world erroneously wonder if anyone in Jamaica runs further than 800 meters. Of course we do have middle and long distance runners, we also […]