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...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has indicated that the US$1-billion Harmony Cove development is being fast-tracked and ground should be broken within the next 11 months for work to begin on the project. Speaking with The Gleaner from Madrid,...
Jamaica-born Don Samuels has announced another bid to try and unseat Congresswoman IIhan Omar in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. Samuels first ran against the congresswoman in 2022, losing by just over 2,500 votes. Running on the democratic...
Describing the death of 26-year-old policewoman Donique Anderson as “a tragic loss”, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has promised that the State, through the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), will take steps to provide more than the...
Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Minister Floyd Green has urged Jamaicans living abroad to invest in the country’s agricultural sector as it is poised to become a major foreign exchange earner. “Now is a good time to come and invest in agriculture...
Two Jamaicans are among nine persons appointed by Maryland Governor Wes Moore to the state’s Caribbean Affairs Commission. The two are Ambassador Curtis Ward, who will chair the commission, and Melissa Buckley, a professor at Coppin State...
NEW YORK: Some 35 new Jamaican citizens, including a one-year old, were sworn in last Thursday at the Jamaican Consulate in Manhattan, New York. At the same function, six persons from the Jamaican community were presented with the Consul General’s...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that his recent four-day visit to the United States (US), during which he met with top US officials, was part of his Government’s strategic mission. Speaking Wednesday night, during a virtual...
New York City Police Department’s First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella has expressed a willingness to meet with the leadership of the Jamaican Police Force to assist with reducing the country’s crime rate, if asked. “We have trained with the...
Linkage Radio, which carries mainly Jamaican programming, is among three unlicensed radio stations fine just over US$6 million by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for operating in the New York area recently. The operators of Linkage...
