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...targets of the suit, which seeks restitution for the plaintiffs, is Keep Your Property, Inc. The North Miami Beach firm allegedly bilked Floridians like Leslie Brown, a 73-year-old Jamaican immigrant and former dockworker. When faced with foreclosure on his Ft. Lauderdale home last fall, he says he paid $2,200 along with other large fees to Keep Your Property, which promised to get his sky-high mortgage interest rate lowered so he could continue making house payments. "I was so happy, I was sure they would take care of it," says Brown, a widower who has since lost...
After all, who could forget Blagojevich’s renowned predecessor, George Ryan? Ryan, a Republican, made a worthy contribution to Illinois’s tradition with his conviction in 2006 for 18 counts of fraud and corruption, including trading state deals for holidays in a Jamaican villa, funding his campaigns with state money, and selling drivers’ licenses. He topped former Governor Otto Kerner, who was convicted in 1973 for 17 counts of corruption, one of which involved trading permission to hold horse races for stock in horseracing companies. Governor Dan Walker also served time...
...world’s safest airlines, Gladwell said. As a line formed to buy a signed copy of Gladwell’s book, some listeners talked about how much they appreciated the author’s perspective. Audience member Riches Anne Constable, who shares Gladwell’s Jamaican heritage, noted that his point about Jamaicans’ tendency to defer to superiors had manifested itself in her own life. “I often find myself giving deference,” she said...
...Andrea Levy’s “Small Island.” I picked up the novel this summer because my mother was reading it for her book club. It’s hard not to compare Levy to Smith: both are black, female British authors of Jamaican heritage. More importantly, both produce works that focus on counteracting the dominant voices in British and American history by illuminating an alternative discourse. But in “Small Island,” Levy succeeds where Smith falls short.Levy dexterously handles the profound and complicated themes of a novel whose central...
...Beckford believes that the very exalted status Jamaica's sprinters have earned the country also acts as a hedge against doping: No Jamaican sprinter today would risk being caught cheating, she believes, because "the national condemnation would be too great...