He is 103 years old and has just published his first book, dedicated to the forgotten farm workers of World War II who helped to defeat Nazi Germany. Meet John McHugh, a Jamaican and a printer by trade, but also one of the forgotten farm workers of...
A plea for unity in the diaspora to allow Jamaicans at home and abroad to prosper has been made by Jamaican pastor, Reverend Andrew Bennett. Rev Bennett, who is pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in Flushing, Queens, said that there are so...
The offices of the Jamaican Consulate in Manhattan, New York, will be the staging ground for a demonstration, a counter-demonstration and a meditation to bless the new office space today. The Jamaica Diaspora Crime Intervention and Prevention Task...
NEW YORK: The decision by the Biden-Harris administration to extend healthcare coverage to DACA recipients has been welcomed by Jamaican community leaders in the diaspora. In 2012, former US President Barack Obama and then Vice-President Biden...
NEW YORK: Stanley Campbell, who boasts Jamaican heritage, has tossed his hat into the ring to contest the United States senate seat currently held by Republican Rick Scott. Campbell, whose father is Jamaican, is among nine candidates running in...
The Union of Jamaica Alumni Associations (UJAA), the New York-based school umbrella organisation, will again sponsor a Jamaican school team to the Robotics Olympics. This year, the event will be held in Athens, Greece, from September 26-29....
MINISTER OF Tourism Edmund Bartlett heads the list of people who will be honoured at the Northern Caribbean University International Development Foundation’s (NCUIDF) Impact Gala tomorrow. The other honourees are Pamela Appelt, retired judge of the...
Jamaican educators and community leaders in the diaspora have condemned the recent public brawls among students of at least four Corporate Area high schools and are calling for the principals of the institutions to take firm action to prevent a...
Well-known Jamaica-born Bronx-based accountant, Alfred Simms, has died at the age of 78 years. Simms, who succumbed on April 5 after a long illness, was one of the founding members of the Arnett Gardens Football Club. He was part of the management...
The National Association of Jamaican and Supportive Organizations (NAJASO), once considered the United States’ premier Jamaican diaspora organisation, is in decline with mounting losses in membership, and faces the danger of going out of business....
A parallel diaspora conference has been announced by organisers for June 16-19, coinciding with the 10th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference to be held at the Montego Bay Conference Center in Montego Bay, St James. Billed as the ‘First Biennial...
The American Caribbean Maritime Foundation has established a digital portal through which students wishing to access the foundation’s scholarships and grants can now apply. The foundation has taken its scholarship and grant application digital with...
The family of former Jamaican jockey Carlyle Thomas, who died after being punched by a tow truck driver during an altercation, has launched a GoFundMe to raise US$12,000 to assist with funeral and other expenses. So far the fund has raised just...
Thirty years ago, a group of Jamaicans in the diaspora came together with the singular purpose of assisting Jamaican school athletes coming to the annual Penn Relays to provide for their comfort. Today, those efforts have expanded beyond the...
As a young child he made a living selling Kisko pops in Coronation Market while navigating the streets of Rose Town and Whitfield Town in south St Andrew, years before migrating to the United States (US) where he would carve out a career in...
The Jamaican Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, is moving to fill a number of vacant honorary consul posts across the United States (US). Among the individuals being nominated is Shauna Chin, who would become the...
As the Jamaican Government intensifies its efforts to have the United States (US) Department of State either rescind or roll back the Level 3 advisory placed against the country, high-level meetings have been taking place in Washington to reach an...
More than 500 international educators are expected in Jamaica from April 22 to 26, for the Future Ready education conference. The conference, to be held on the campus of the University of Technology, Old Hope Road in St Andrew, is being put on by...
SHE EXPERIENCED homelessness in New York, rose to work on Wall Street and later being appointed Jamaica’s top diplomat in New York. Jamaica’s Consul General to New York, Alsion Roach-Wilson’s journey began in Redwood, St Catherine, where she was...
United States congresswomen Yvette Clarke, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, and Ayanna Pressley, co-chairs of the US House of Representatives Haiti Caucus, have called for Haitian President Ariel Henry to hand over power to a transitional government and...
The Jamaican Consulate in Manhattan, New York, will reopen to the general public today at its new location – 300 East 42nd Street at Second Avenue. The consulate’s offices have been closed to the public since February 22. Jamaicans and others will...
TOURISM MINISTER Ed Bartlett has acknowledged that the Level 3 advisory placed against Jamaica by the United States’ Department of State has resulted in some tourism cancellations. Nonetheless, Bartlett pointed out that the industry still grew by...
The Jamaican Consulate in New York, located in Manhattan, has announced that it will be moving to its new location on March 11. The new address will be 300 East 42nd Street, at the intersection of 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue, a 237,000 square feet...
Anthony Irons, a former permanent secretary and an architect of Jamaica’s industrial movement, has been praised as a fair-minded person who did much to contribute to the development and harmony of the industrial peace of Jamaica. Senator Lambert...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has signed agreements with three Spanish investors amounting to some US$2.2 billion for the development of three tourism projects in Jamaica. The signings took place in Madrid, Spain, where the minister and his team...
