The rapidly growing Jamaican overseas community and those at home will now benefit from a new and exciting radio programme that aims to inform, educate and find solutions to matters primarily dealing with immigration and deportation. The programme will be aired on Thursdays from 8:40am on Power 106 FM and will be streamed live via www.go-jamaica.com/power/. The radio programme is currently being spearheaded and hosted by Florida-based and Jamaican-born attorney, Dahlia Walker-Huntington who is joined by renowned radio personality Ronald “Ronnie” Thwaites of Power 106 FM. Through incisive discussions and up-to-date research the programme will further aim to provide viable information to assist Caribbean nationals living at home and abroad by highlighting and clarifying the legal framework and addressing the rights of the caller.
Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau Report issued in June 1994 reveal that there were approximately 435,024 Jamaicans living in the USA, reflecting 0.2% of the US population. By the year 2000 this figure had increased to 736,513- this represents a 69% increase in Jamaicans in ten years. With this in mind hosts Walker-Huntington and Thwaites have developed a feature targeting Jamaicans at home and abroad who will need vital information as they prepare to do business, live or study overseas. Thwaites and Walker-Huntington come with a wealth of experience in the field of broadcasting and immigration respectively, Walker-Huntington is currently a solo practitioner in Hollywood, Florida practicing in the areas of Immigration, Criminal and Family Law, while also serving as a Special Magistrate for the City of Miramar, Florida. Thwaites first entered the media as a Radio Talk Show Host in 1976, as host of the programme ‘Public Eye’, on the now defunct JBC radio station. He is an attorney-at-law, farmer, minister of religion and a politician, all of which have brought a unique dimension to his style of hosting Independent Talk, a popular current affairs news programme aired on Power 106.
The main sponsor for the programme, Digicel Jamaica, expressed their delight with the relationship by calling the programme, “A truly helpful and valuable feature that falls ideally in line with our strategy for regional and international expansion”. According to Wayne Miller, Digicel Marketing Communications
Manager, “As Digicel prepares to intensify the scope of our Cari-Flex product, which allows roaming users to top up phone credit through JN overseas branches; we find Your Legal Corner an ideal channel to reach our overseas market. We have the utmost confidence in the success of the programme as its content structure is pertinent in this fast-paced globalised and technology driven environment.”
Contact: Maxine Mitchell
(876) 906-2266, (876)906-9248
