Interview with Hansen von Shneir, the operator of the non-profit Jamlink
This week we interview Hansen von Shneir , the operator of the non-profit website and organization Jamlink.com. Hansen is very passionate about Jamaica and hence organization’s motto “Jamaica Matters Here”. He has spearheaded numerous projects to assist individuals, schools and churches that you will never hear about in the mainstream media. He is not about talking […]
A Conversation with Jamaican Born, Public Relation Expert, Karen Taylor Bass
This week we interview Jamaican-born, PR expert, Karen Taylor Bass. She is considered one of the premier authorities in the public relations industry and has created “out of the box,” public relations, branding, and marketing campaigns for celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and corporations for over 18 years. She has also provided coaching to entrepreneurs, mompreneurs and […]
Blooming Against the Odds: Remembering a Jamaican Father
My father was a no-nonsense, hardworking man who made his living as a building contractor. He spent his days plowing through the streets of Kingston, shuttling workmen and building supplies from one job site to another, and spent his weekends scouting empty lots for sale. He built a variety of structures in and around the […]
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
On June 4, a youngster approached a non-Jamaican man at a fast food outlet in Mandeville. The boy asked the man for money. According to news reports, the man gave the boy $500.00 and told him to go to the bathroom. He followed him there. Security personnel grew suspicious. On investigating, they found the boy […]
Is it Practical To Plan For Retirement?
As it becomes increasingly difficult for many companies to finance workplace pension plans, and more persons join the ranks of the self-employed, the number of Jamaicans who are currently investing towards their retirement years is woefully inadequate. Studies indicate that private pension arrangements are now covering some 60,000 persons of the approximately 1.3 million people […]
How to Work Less and Earn More
With some amount of trepidation, you decide that you’re finally going to get a grip on your budget. Armed with months of bills and receipts, you painstakingly recreate an outline of your spending plan for the year. After adding up all your expenses, you’re shocked to see that the total monthly income needed to finance […]
How to succeed at any goal
Are you having difficulty achieving your financial goals? Do you desperately want to buy a house of your own, spend a nice vacation in an all-inclusive, or earn enough to stop living off credit cards? Are life’s challenges intervening to make your desires seem like impossible fantasies? Sometimes our goals are elusive because we’re not […]
Coping With Your Parents’ Financial Problems
Steven* was casually reviewing the newspaper’s real estate section when he noticed a familiar address among a long list of properties up for auction. Thinking that there was a mistake in the advertisement, he quickly called his mother to tell her that they had used her house number in error. It took Steven a while […]
Who is to blame?
The past week in Kingston’s history will leave us like amputees – eventually healed but never quite the same again. We are using some positive phrases, “tipping point”, “cleansing”, but the words stop in our throat as we count the cost in the body count. We mourn with Claude Clarke the tragic loss of his […]
All My People Say: REVOLUTION!
“Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Anonymous When Great Britain granted us our political Independence in 1962, we showed such promise and potential as a new Nation. In 1961, we voted on the West Indies Federation which failed miserably. In hindsight we, as a Caribbean people, could […]