Why Jamaicans have to migrate to become productive?
Why is that we all know Jamaicans who migrated, and almost overnight, became productive? Their accomplishments surprise us when they land on other shores. Shortly after leaving Jamaica in 1984 to attend university in the United States, I encountered my first success story. Robert, a fellow Wolmerian, had left after third form and I ran […]
A Conversation with Jamaican bag designer, Alia Michèle Orane
This week we interview up and coming Jamaican bag designer, Alia Michèle Orane. A talented Kingstonian, Alia resided in New York City for many years before recently moving back to Jamaica, where she makes her bags using a small sewing machine. She has been featured in many online publications and print magazines as one of […]
Interview with Jamaican comedians Ity and Fancy Cat
This week we interview Ity and Fancy Cat. So who’s Ity & Fancy Cat? Ian “Ity” Ellis and Alton “Fancy Cat” Hardware are two talented, confident yet un-assuming men who have known each other since childhood days in Trench Town, long before they became a household name in Jamaica. As an established professional performing arts […]
Career Survival for Women During A Recession
The current newscasts report that men are following behind women in the job market due to despondency and a sense of hopelessness, caused by the current depressive state of the economy. Even though, women seem to be excelling in the work force, they are still underpaid and usually the first to get laid off in an […]
The Upbeat Dad: Beware! Family Law is an Oxymoron!
In the early 2000s as I was going through a divorce, I recall making the statement that the term “family law” is an oxymoron. The reality of what I was experiencing was that it is very anti-family. I used an analogy then that I think still holds true today: family law is like a sleeping, […]
Interview Jamaican Youth Activist Craig Dixon
This week we interview Jamaican Youth Activist Craig Dixon, 22. He was recently chosen to represent Jamaica at the Nkabom: Commonwealth Youth Leadership Programme in Kigali, Rwanda. He has an amazing drive for success as revealed in his life story as a child street vendor, who lived alone at age fourteen and managed, through remarkable […]
Immigration: Overcoming Marriage Fraud
A finding of marriage fraud is not a trivial issue to have on any immigration record. However, a previous denial of a permanent residence application or Immigration’s finding of marriage fraud is not always insurmountable if the matter is dealt with aggressively. I have decided to write an article on this daunting issue because recently […]
Don’t Call Me An African
The cost of this self inflicted inferiority complex is enormous. It destroyed our economy and those of African communities in Diaspora. We do not patronize ourselves anymore turning us into consumers of other people’s services and products because subjectively, we see them as superior to ours. The minority middle class we want our image makers […]
Aftermath of Tropical Storm Nicole by American Retiree in Jamaica
The story actually starts back in 2004 when Hurricane Ivan paid a visit to Jamaica. Sign main road is a lazy winding road over gently rolling hills that leads past, as opposed to through, several small communities on its way from Montego Bay, to, you guessed it, the town of Sign. This road parallels the […]
Jamaican Recipes Android App
We are pleased to introduce our first Android app now available in the Android Market Place. The application, “Jamaican Recipes” allows users to browse Jamaicans.com’s database of over 110 recipes with step by step cooking instructions and view of glossary of Jamaican foods. The ” Jamaican Recipes ” application is available for $0.99 in the Android […]