Jamaica’s health sector was recently gifted a number of items from United States fourth-largest medical healthcare system – Memorial Healthcare System based in Florida. The donation was as a result of the efforts of Jamaica’s Consul General to...
New York reggae music pioneer Earl Moodie helped to propel Jamaican culture and created a meeting spot for Jamaicans through his Moodie’s Records store. Moodie died last Friday. He was 69 years and had been ailing for some time. For over 40 years,...
Olympian and retired sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown will headline a star-studded group at the 6th annual People Profile Awards (PPA), where she will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding career representing Jamaica in...
THE ARRIVAL of over 208,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the United States represent a pay off for the efforts of a number of people in the Diaspora who began lobbying the Biden administration for vaccines for Jamaica as far back as March. The...
The United States government has brought federal fraud charges against the daughter of a prominent Jamaica-born, Florida politician. Damara Holness, 28, was arrested and charged with fleecing some US$300,000 from a federal government programme that...
The fate of hundreds of Jamaicans who were brought to the United States as children and who were applying for protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have seen their dreams put on hold following a ruling...
Dr John Eaves, a second-generation Jamaican, has launched a campaign to become the next secretary of state for Georgia. Eaves announced recently that he will be seeking to become the Democratic standard-bearer for that elected office when the...
The revocation of the US visas of Minister of Energy Daryl Vaz, his wife Ann-Marie and former minister of government Phillip Paulwell has burst back on centre stage with the recent statement by the former US Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia that...
Members of the Haitian community in United States (US) have reacted with shock and outrage at the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise by gunmen early yesterday morning at his private residence. Michelle Adolphe, a Haitian American...
COVID-19 restrictions in New York have been lifted and the Jamaican community has welcomed the move. “It feels great. I am glad that the restrictions have been lifted and we can go back to some normal life,” said Douglas Brown. He said that he can...
Well-placed Homeland Security sources have revealed that Border Patrol agents have intensified surveillance of travel routes between the Caribbean and the United States in a bid to stem the flow of illegals. The disclosure comes amid the detention...
Jamaica could be the beneficiary of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine if the Biden-Harris administration accedes to an impassioned request of prominent expatriates and others lobbying the White House on what they describe as “the most...
“Raw and emotional.” That is how Maurice Gordon, Sr viewed the trial and verdict of ex-Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty last week on three counts of murdering George Floyd. Gordon, whose son was shot and killed last year...
The son of a 50-year-old Jamaican woman whose body was found with stab wounds in her Stamford, Connecticut, apartment last Friday has been charged with her murder. Denise McLaughlin, who had been missing for days, was discovered after friends...
Jamaican theologian the Rev Dr Horace Russell passed away on Monday, leaving behind a legacy in education and leadership that spanned his island home and the United States. Russell was 91. In his last interview with The Gleaner in January, he...
There are at least 30 Jamaican nationals who are currently in limbo in Britain and forced to stay there because of the current travel ban on flights to the United Kingdom imposed by the Holness administration because of the coronavirus pandemic....
The newly appointed head of the Connecticut’s public school system is Jamaican Charlene Russell-Tucker. She will oversee a public school system that caters to 528,000 students across the state. Russell-Tucker was appointed by Governor Ned Lamont as...
Sherry M is a Jamaican single mother of four residing in Brooklyn who has been scrambling to make ends meet since the coronavirus pandemic hit a year ago and she lost her job. Today, she is more hopeful because of the newly passed Biden...
The first African American woman to be appointed professor of surgery at New York University Langone Grossman School of Medicine is Jamaica-born Dr Kathie-Ann Joseph. She also assumes the rank of professor in population health, where she holds dual...
The Jamaican and Caribbean community in Florida could see more focus on organisation and the infusion of resources, if the new vice-chair of the Florida Democratic Party, Jamaica-born Reverend Dr Karen Green, has her way. Green, in an interview...
A 73-year-old Jamaican woman collapsed and died in the stairwell of a Bronx building after trying to walk up 19 flights of stairs, resulting in her oxygen tank running dry. Dead is Ada Longmore, who resides in Coop City, Bronx, New York. The...
Another Jamaican has made it to the upper echelons of the political ladder in the United States. The Rev Dr Karen Green has been appointed one of four vice-chairs of the Florida Democratic Party. Green most recently served as the Florida Democratic...
“We are very fortunate.” That is how Terron Henry, a Jamaican resident of Houston, described his ordeal with the wintry weather that has gripped Texas over the last week, bringing icy conditions, power outages, and water shortages. “If one thing...
Jamaican Congresswoman Yvette Clarke is among seven members of the United States Congress who have written to the US State Department to reject any attempt by Haitian President Jovenel Moïse to hold on to power in Haiti and take steps to support...
Darian Bryan has come a far way from whipping up meals in a humble Clarendon village restaurant to tantalising the taste buds of power brokers with gourmet creations. Today, nine years after migrating to the United States, Bryan is the personal...
