Senator Floyd Morris has become the first visually impaired person to be appointed a full professor at The University of the West Indies (UWI). Morris, who was advised of his promotion yesterday by the UWI Appointment Committee, will be professor...
While many Jamaicans in the United States have welcomed the guilty verdict handed down to Donald Trump in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, others echoed the former United States president’s reaction, declaring it “a disgrace”. Trump was found...
Senior Vice President of Home Depot, Jamaican Ann-Marie Campbell, has announced that she will be donating US$100,000 to her alma mater, Holy Childhood High School for Girls located in St Andrew. Campbell made the announcement while addressing Holy...
Boston-based manufacturing company KIC Ventures is inviting Jamaicans to invest in its operations, where it says their funds can significantly impact not only their financial future, but the future of spine surgery technology. Owned by Jamaican...
Hoping to become the first Jamaica-born male to sit on the New York City Council, Lawman Lynch recently announced his candidacy for a Brooklyn city council seat. He is seeking to represent Council District 41 in Brooklyn. Should he win the seat in...
With less than a month to go to the opening of the 10th Biennial Diaspora Conference, the attendance target of 1,000 participants from the diaspora will not be realised if registration continues at its current pace. During the official launch of...
Jamaica’s Consul General to Miami, Oliver Mair, will toss out the first pitch at tonight’s Major League Baseball (MLB) game between the Florida Marlins and the New York Mets to raise funds for the Friends of the University of the West Indies...
He is 103 years old and has just published his first book, dedicated to the forgotten farm workers of World War II who helped to defeat Nazi Germany. Meet John McHugh, a Jamaican and a printer by trade, but also one of the forgotten farm workers of...
A plea for unity in the diaspora to allow Jamaicans at home and abroad to prosper has been made by Jamaican pastor, Reverend Andrew Bennett. Rev Bennett, who is pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in Flushing, Queens, said that there are so...
The offices of the Jamaican Consulate in Manhattan, New York, will be the staging ground for a demonstration, a counter-demonstration and a meditation to bless the new office space today. The Jamaica Diaspora Crime Intervention and Prevention Task...
NEW YORK: The decision by the Biden-Harris administration to extend healthcare coverage to DACA recipients has been welcomed by Jamaican community leaders in the diaspora. In 2012, former US President Barack Obama and then Vice-President Biden...
NEW YORK: Stanley Campbell, who boasts Jamaican heritage, has tossed his hat into the ring to contest the United States senate seat currently held by Republican Rick Scott. Campbell, whose father is Jamaican, is among nine candidates running in...
The Union of Jamaica Alumni Associations (UJAA), the New York-based school umbrella organisation, will again sponsor a Jamaican school team to the Robotics Olympics. This year, the event will be held in Athens, Greece, from September 26-29....
MINISTER OF Tourism Edmund Bartlett heads the list of people who will be honoured at the Northern Caribbean University International Development Foundation’s (NCUIDF) Impact Gala tomorrow. The other honourees are Pamela Appelt, retired judge of the...
Jamaican educators and community leaders in the diaspora have condemned the recent public brawls among students of at least four Corporate Area high schools and are calling for the principals of the institutions to take firm action to prevent a...
Well-known Jamaica-born Bronx-based accountant, Alfred Simms, has died at the age of 78 years. Simms, who succumbed on April 5 after a long illness, was one of the founding members of the Arnett Gardens Football Club. He was part of the management...
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...
