Members of the Jamaican Diaspora in the United States have congratulated the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on its impressive victory in Thursday’s general election. However, some members of the diaspora have expressed concerns over the low...
A Gleaner survey among members of the Jamaican diaspora in the United States has revealed that many citizens who had initially planned to return to cast ballots in next week’s polls have opted to remain home. The about-turn is a result of the COVID...
Verley Fraizer will be travelling to Jamaica this weekend for an extended stay. But if United States (US) President Donald Trump has his way, should Fraizer become infected with the coronavirus, the Jamaica-born US citizen could be barred from re-...
“Ecstatic!” “The best choice!” “Very proud!” That was the effusive praise from expatriates to news that Joe Biden, former United States vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee for president, had selected Jamaica-descended California...
Patrice Henry-Burford underwent successful brain surgery last Thursday and is expected to be released from hospital in days. Henry-Burford, who was featured in The Gleaner on July 20, had suffered two aneurysms and survived surgery. However,...
Three thousand Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have again found themselves in uncertain waters after the Trump administration issued a new memo, seeking to end the programme within a year. The...
Yet another Jamaican has tasted success in politics in the United States. Phelecia Nembhard, originally from Whitfield Town in Kingston, was in June elected mayor of the city of New Carrolton in Maryland. She is the first female and first person of...
The October 26, 2019, morning started out like any other. But what followed was anything but ordinary. Patrice Burford Henry awoke in her Stony Hill, St Andrew, home on that fateful Thursday morning and went about her usual chore of making...
The decision by the Trump administration not to go forward with deporting international students who do not attend in-person classes has been welcomed by the Jamaican community as well as students studying in the United States. Chelsea Wright, a...
THE ‘GOFUNDME’ drive launched by a number of organisations in the United States for the families of two policemen who were killed during an operation in Horizon Park, St Catherine, will now be used to set up a scholarship in the names of the lawmen...
Approximately 3,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot end the programme...
SEVERAL JAMAICANS have stepped forward to contest positions in Georgia’s primary elections. Those seeking political office in Tuesday’s elections are Donna McLeod, Jewell Scott, Andy Morgan, Desmond Nembhard, and John Eaves. Morgan and Nembhard are...
THE JAMAICAN Consulate in New York, which has been closed since March 16 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is targeting June 11 for its reopening, with major changes to its operation. Consul General Alsion Wilson told The Gleaner that the reopening...
With 21 reported deaths from COVID-19, a Bronx church that serves a large Jamaican community has been hit hard by the disease. St Luke’s Episcopal Church, located on Barnes Avenue and East 222nd Street in the Northeast section of the Bronx, also...
Scherie Murray, the Jamaican conservative who was seeking the Republican Party's nomination to run against Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a New York Congressional District, withdrew from the primary race on Monday, complaining...
HISTORY WAS made in Florida when Renatha Francis became the first Jamaican ever to be appointed to the Florida Supreme Court. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made the announcement yesterday at a news conference in Miami. Francis currently sits as a...
LAUNCHED WITH much fanfare in October 2016 with a goal of raising US$2 million to assist schools in Jamaica as well as to promote professional development, the Pledge2Build project is a bust. Four years later, the organisers reported raising US$5,...
PORTIA HAUGHTON, the mother of the late Jodian Fearon, whose heartbreaking death in April stirred national outrage, will be among just under 200 Jamaicans returning from the United States under the controlled re-entry programme on Wednesday. Fearon...
HOW DO you tell your young children – ages six, 10 and 11 years – that they are COVID -19-positive? This was the dilemma that confronted Pastor Frank Williams of the Wake-Eden Community Baptist Church and the Bronx Baptist Church. And shortly after...
Will Jamaicans who have been stranded in the United States since Jamaica closed its borders because of COVID-19 take advantage of going back home under the controlled re-entry programme? The Jamaican Government has said that under controlled...
She is very good at saving penalties, but her biggest save may be against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Jamaica’s senior women’s football tea goalkeeper, Nicole McClure, came down with the virus recently but has fought and defeated the deadly...
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads like a bush fire throughout the United States, several Jamaican healthcare professionals on the front line tell of a brutal grind of attrition that has seen COVID-19 infections creep...
Pleas to expatriates for donations of medical equipment and gear as the Jamaican health sector braces for a surge in COVID-19 cases could founder because of shortages in the United States, where key diaspora centres are buckling under the weight of...
Stay where you are! That’s the message from Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, to seasonal hotel workers who have been turning up at American airports seeking to return to their homeland because their employment ended early...
They missed the March 24 deadline to return to Jamaica and now find themselves stranded in an airport in Atlanta, Georgia, as they try to make their way home. They are seasonal Jamaican hotel workers who normally travel on HB-2 visas to work in...
