Jamaican Wayne Messam was overwhelmingly re-elected mayor of the city of Miramar in Florida for his third four-year term on Tuesday. Messam received 90.6 per cent of the vote with his challenger, Rudy Theophin, bagging the remaining 9.4 per cent....
A cheque for $225,000.00 has been presented to Stephen Josephs to assist in the care of fire victim 13-year Adrianna Laing when she returns to Jamaica from the United States where she is being treated for major burns. The donation was made by...
Police in Surrey, England, are continuing their investigations into a suspected case of murder-suicide in which a Jamaica-born man is alleged to have killed his British wife and their seven-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself. Dead...
Jamaican expatriates with investments in their homeland have been cautious about liquidating their securities in the wake of the $3-billion Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) fraud. Members of the diaspora said, however, that they were awaiting...
Cuban-Jamaicans residing in Cuba are calling for inclusion in Jamaica’s engagement of its diaspora. “We are a forgotten community despite being the part of the diaspora closest to Jamaica,” said Yamile Hall, who heads the Jamaican Overseas Club in...
Member of Parliament for Western Westmoreland Moreland Wilson says plans are on to provide a house for 13-year-old burn victim Adrianna Laing and her father Adrian under the Government’s New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), a component of the...
A Jamaican paediatrician practising in New York, was murdered in a four-day crime spree in Harlem, New York, last week. The body of 60-year-old Dr Bruce Maurice Henry was discovered inside Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem in the early hours of December...
Jamaicans in the United States and Canada have been grappling with a monster winter storm which began wreaking havoc last week and snowballed into this week, disrupting holiday travel as airlines scrubbed thousands of flights, with states of...
Jamaica-born Lorna Mahlock has made history by becoming the first black woman commanding as a two-star general in the United States Marine Corps. Brigadier General Mahlock was nominated for promotion to major general earlier this month by US...
NEW YORK: Jamaica-born Dwight Geddes has been elected to the board of The National African American Insurance Association (NAAIA), the first Jamaican to sit on this august body. The NAAIA recently announced the results of its 2022 elections and...
Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has said that by the end of the current financial year all police stations will be digital, doing away with the old method of logbooks. Already, according to the police commissioner, 10 stations are...
Having spent the last two years trying to secure his release after he was convicted of murder at age 14, the sister of 64-year-old Michael Anthony Lawrence is expressing frustration with the slow grind of the Jamaican prison system in setting him...
Five hundred teachers and educators from across 15 countries are expected to be in Jamaica on January 21, 2023, for the Global Education Teachers Summit to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. The confab is being organised...
FLORIDA: Twenty-eight students of the College of Agriculture Science and Education have this year been awarded scholarships by the Ole Farmers Association, (OFANA) the school’s alumni body in the United States’ northeast region. The scholarships...
FLORIDA Dr Camille Coates-Clark made history recently when she became the first Jamaican woman to be board certified as an orthopaedic surgeon in the United States. Her achievement is even more notable against the fact that only about 0.6 per cent...
A German-Jamaican museum is to be established in Seaford Town, Westmoreland, aimed at highlighting and commemorating the contribution of Germans to the development of the Caribbean island. The museum will be established in conjunction with the...
Some 270 students of Caribbean descent have been provided with scholarships and/or financial assistance by Dr Trisha Bailey as part of her charitable outreach. The Jamaica-born entrepreneur’s Bailey-Archie’s Charitable Foundation has largely...
Florida: The American Caribbean Maritime Foundation (ACMF) will host its fifth annual gala and Anchor Awards ceremony on Friday, November 4, at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, under the theme ‘Educate, Inspire’. Dr Irfaan Ali...
A Jamaican man has been arrested by the Florida state election police in the United States and charged with voting illegally in two special elections in the Sunshine State. The accused, Alfred Samuels, is reportedly living in the United States...
Dr Trisha Bailey, the Jamaica-born entrepreneur who recently made the largest cash donation in the history of the University of Connecticut, has a number of development projects under way in Jamaica valued in excess of US$41 million. Among the...
A Gleaner article highlighting the implementation of choral fellowships at Kingston College (KC) has spurred an outpouring of such fellowships to the school, with 45 choral fellowships now having been offered the institution. United States...
IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS and advocates are urging the United States Congress to act swiftly in enacting the necessary legislation to provide protection to DACA recipients in light of a ruling on Wednesday by the Texas 5th Court of Appeal that the...
NEW YORK: With just a month to go before the start of the voting cycle for the new Global Jamaica Diaspora Council (GJDC), four of its seven elected members have decided not to seek re-election, with at least one citing poor funding and limited...
There have been no reports of loss of lives or significant property damage among the more than 300,000 Jamaicans living in Florida as Hurricane Ian struck the American state as a monstrous Category 4 system on Wednesday before weakening to a...
PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness has called for an international “war on guns” to end the influx of illegal weapons and epidemic of murders in Jamaica. “In the same way that a war on drugs is being prosecuted, in which we have been faithful partners...
