He is now the highest ranked Jamaican in the New York Police Department and the first Jamaican ever to be appointed borough commander in the history of the NYPD. He is Jamaica-born Ruel Stephenson who was recently promoted to the rank of assistant...
FLORIDA: A JUDGE in Florida has dismissed a charge of perjury brought against the former schools’ superintendent of Broward County, Jamaican, Robert Runcie. Circuit judge Martin Fein dismissed the grand jury’s 2021 indictment against Runcie...
Heavy D, who is credited with being one of the architects of hip hop music, was honoured recently with the unveiling of a sculpture in his memory in Mount Vernon, his adopted home. The sculpture unveiling, hosted by Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard,...
Jamaican community leaders in Florida are raising the alarm about an immigration bill that was passed in the Sunshine State last Friday, pointing out that it will have a “chilling” effect on immigrants, legal and non-legal alike. Democrats have...
Members of the Jamaican diaspora in the United States have paid tribute to the late Harry Belafonte who died on Tuesday, April 26 at the age of 96 years. He has been described as a true son of Jamaica who never lost his commitment to the country...
The Jamaican Consulate in Manhattan, New York, has implemented a number of changes designed to cope with the volume of requests for passports and other services. Consul General Alsion Wilson said given the number of calls that the consulate deals...
Five-year-old Jermaine Taylor, who was born with a heart defect, is set to receive a pacemaker, following The Gleaner’s publication of his story last week. Doctors at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital for Children will perform the surgery to...
New York State Assembly speaker Carl Heastie, is one of three persons to be honoured at the annual Jah Jerry scholarship fundraising dinner on Friday, April 28. Heastie will receive the “Community Spirit” award, while honorees Doreen Shaffer and...
Scholarships totalling some US$40,000 have been awarded to sixteen students in Jamaica and the United States from proceeds raised from last year’s Jamaica 60th gala hosted by the Jamaican Consulate in New York City . A breakdown of the...
Five-year old Jermaine Taylor is urgently in need of a new pacemaker, a situation which has forced his family to start a GoFundMe account to raise the necessary funds to purchase the device. “His heart function is very poor right now,” Lorraine...
NEW YORK: Several Jamaica-born Republicans have condemned the indictment of former United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday, describing the charges brought against him as political victimisation. In unsealing a historic 34-count felony...
NEW YORK: Tameka Cooke spent two and a half years shuttling between homeless shelters in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx in New York and survived domestic violence and hunger all while battling a rare cancer. Today, Cooke has her own apartment, is...
Newly elected Governor of Maryland Wes Moore has announced the appointment of the first black person to become head of the Maryland State Police.Tasked to lead the Maryland State Police and usher in a new era of law-enforcement strategy is Lt Col...
Southwest Airline will be expanding its operations in Jamaica when it begins once a week non-stop flights from Kansas City, Missouri, to Montego Bay, St James, in October this year. This will be the first-ever flight between Kansas City...
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...
