All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Baldwin, Long Island, has appointed its first woman and woman of colour to be the new pastor. She is Rev Maxine Barnett, a Jamaica-born, who entered the priesthood after serving more than 30 years as an educator. The...
IN ELECTIONS across the United States of America on Tuesday, several candidates of colour made history winning a number of mayoral posts in various cities. Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Dearborn, Michigan and Buffalo saw a majority of voters...
Jamaica-born New York State Assemblyman N. Nick Perry has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be the next United States ambassador to Jamaica. In a statement reacting to the president’s announcement, Perry said that he was honoured by the...
Fifty-seven-year-old Jamaica-born Winsome Sears is the new lieutenant governor of Virginia. Her history-making election win came in the race for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and other state-wide races in that state. Sears won...
A Jamaica-born candidate running in the primary election in South Florida could make history today. Dale Holness, a Jamaica-born South Florida politician could emerge victorious in today’s primary election to fill the 20th Congressional District...
THE FIRST members of a 100-team COVID diaspora medical mission are now on the ground in Jamaica, having arrived here last week Sunday. The three-member advance team, headed by Dr Robert Clarke, will be based at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital and will...
WHEN TRICIA Marsh decided to leave Connecticut and settle in Atlanta, Georgia, one of her main concerns was finding a school where her four-year-old twin sons would be able to learn a second language. “For two years, I search for such a school and...
The sight of United States Border Protection agents on horsebacks and using whips to round up Haitian migrants on the Texas border has prompted an outcry by Caribbean elected and others leaders to urge the Biden administration to develop a more...
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...
