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Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2020 | 12:08 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

HOW DO you tell your young children – ages six, 10 and 11 years – that they are COVID -19-positive? This was the dilemma that confronted Pastor Frank Williams of the Wake-Eden Community Baptist Church and the Bronx Baptist Church. And shortly after...

Published:Saturday | April 25, 2020 | 12:14 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

Will Jamaicans who have been stranded in the United States since Jamaica closed its borders because of COVID-19 take advantage of going back home under the controlled re-entry programme? The Jamaican Government has said that under controlled...

Published:Thursday | April 2, 2020 | 12:00 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

She is very good at saving penalties, but her biggest save may be against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Jamaica’s senior women’s football tea goalkeeper, Nicole McClure, came down with the virus recently but has fought and defeated the deadly...

Published:Thursday | April 2, 2020 | 12:00 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

 As the coronavirus pandemic spreads like a bush fire throughout the United States, several Jamaican healthcare professionals on the front line tell of a brutal grind of attrition that has seen COVID-19 infections creep...

Published:Friday | March 27, 2020 | 12:28 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

Pleas to expatriates for donations of medical equipment and gear as the Jamaican health sector braces for a surge in COVID-19 cases could founder because of shortages in the United States, where key diaspora centres are buckling under the weight of...

Published:Friday | March 27, 2020 | 12:27 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

Stay where you are! That’s the message from Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, to seasonal hotel workers who have been turning up at American airports seeking to return to their homeland because their employment ended early...

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2020 | 12:29 AMLester Hinds/Gleaner Writer

They missed the March 24 deadline to return to Jamaica and now find themselves stranded in an airport in Atlanta, Georgia, as they try to make their way home. They are seasonal Jamaican hotel workers who normally travel on HB-2 visas to work in...

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