WITH SCHOOLS in New York City reopening this week, among the people charged with ensuring that the reopening process for the city’s public schools goes smoothly is Jamaica-born Dr Rushell White. White, who is deputy superintendent in the city’s...
City University of New York (CUNY) is to offer five scholarships to honour the late entertainer and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte. This was announced by New York Governor Kathy Hochul at the West Indian Labour Day Parade, held in Brooklyn on...
A 25-member health mission drawn from New York and New Jersey will arrive in the island on September 6 for a nine-day visit. Headed by Dr Robert Clarke, chief medical adviser for the Northeast Diaspora, the health mission is under the auspices of...
The Union of Jamaica Alumni Associations (UJAA), a United States-based organisation, is hoping to raise US$20,000 to help send an 11-member team to the upcoming seventh First Global Challenge (FGC), an Olympics-style robotics competition to be held...
NEW YORK: Jamaica’s consul general to New York, Alsion Wilson, says plans for the construction of a US$1 million robotics training centre at The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Faculty of Medical Sciences by the Hartford Healthcare Center for...
Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has urged Jamaicans in the diaspora to adopt clinics in Jamaica as part of efforts to improve the island’s healthcare delivery system. “Forty-five clinics have already been adopted (by the diaspora) but...
The Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is investigating an incident at Norman Manley International Airport in the early hours of last Friday, August 11, where a Jamaican national entering the country was threatened by an immigration...
Twenty-five years ago, a group of Jamaicans living in New Jersey gathered to discuss ways to honour Ardene High School student, Jody-Ann Maxwell on becoming the first Jamaican and Caribbean-born person to win the Scripps-Howard Spelling Bee...
NEW YORK: The Jamaican Government, through its consulate in New York, is monitoring the catastrophic wildfires in Hawaii in the United States to see if any Jamaicans have been impacted. The fires, which started on Tuesday night and have been...
Courtney Washington is today creating fashion for many well-known celebrities and moving in circles that are exclusive; however, his journey to the top has been adorned with many twists and turns. Born in lower Franklin Town, the ‘other side’ of...
Jamaicans in the diaspora have described as inappropriate the decision by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to present a Key to the City to Trinidadian soca artiste Machel Montano during Sunday’s Grand Gala celebrations on...
A number of Jamaicans in the diaspora have been recognised among this year’s list of recipients of national honours. There is Dr Bertram Melbourne, who will be made a member of the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander (CD) for his...
The Jamaican Organization of New Jersey (JON-J) has offered a public apology to Jamaica’s consul general in New York, Alsion Wilson, and Ambassador Audrey Marks for recent comments made by President Emeritus Linval James. In its letter, sent to...
The Jamaican Organization of New Jersey (JON-J) is in damage control mode following what has been described as an intemperate outburst by the its President Emeritus, Linval James, during an official function at city hall in East Orange. The office...
Jamaican-American Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan is set to preside over the latest case against former United States President Donald Trump who was yesterday indicted for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Born in Kingston in July 1962...
The Garvey School, situated on Baychester Avenue in the Bronx, United States, faces an uncertain future as the landlords for the building where the school is currently located want to reclaim the space. Founded by Jamaican educator June O’Connor...
Noted journalist, author, diplomat and historian, Ewart ‘Fats’ Walters, has died. He was 83 years old. His death in Ottawa, Canada, was announced by his daughter-in-law, Sue Walters. No cause of death has been given. Walters, who was a graduate of...
NEW YORK: Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith will be special guests at this year’s gala to mark Jamaica’s 61st anniversary of Independence. The gala will be held at the New York...
HIGHLY ACCLAIMED Jamaican track coach, Glen Mills, is to be honoured in South Florida by the People Profile Organization, which is to present him with its ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’. Mills will join a distinguished list of people who have...
Hope Gardens in St Andrew is slated for a make-over. As part of the 150th anniversary of the Gardens, a Friends of Hope Gardens group in the diaspora, led by Jamaican businessman and community leader, Blane Studdart, has set a goal of raising J$150...
NEW YORK: Jamaican community leaders in the diaspora are calling for the governments of United States and Jamaican to diplomatically fix any issue that may have arisen between both countries over the granting of diplomatic immunity to the same-sex...
Jamaica-born Michael King was a detective sergeant with the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the Criminal Investigation Division in 2007 when he first caught the case of Maureen Bernard-Barnes’ disappearance and his search led him to Gilgo...
After spending more than 19 years in prison, and two years of efforts to secure his release, Michael Anthony Lawrence still sits in limbo, awaiting an order from the office of the governor general. His sister, Hayley Rowe-Baxter, told The Gleaner...
DONIQUE ANDERSON, a 26-year-old Jamaican policewoman who travelled to the United States in hopes of getting a liver transplant to save her life, is preparing to return to Jamaica amidst dwindling hope that she will get the much-needed transplant...
World record holding sprint legend Usain Bolt is to be honoured by the City of Miramar in Florida on July 15. A statue of Bolt will be unveiled as part of the city’s tribute. The statue was done by renowned Jamaican sculptor Basil Watson, out of...
