Three new Spanish hotel projects are apace for groundbreaking later this year. The projects are expected to pump US$2.2 billion into the Jamaican economy, and create some 20,000 new jobs in construction and tourism services. They are a 1,000-room...
With the election season in the United States moving into high gear ahead of the November 5 general elections, a number of Jamaicans are hoping to win political offices in their respective states. Jamaicans are running for the United States House...
The 10th Biennial Diaspora Conference, which opens in Montego Bay tomorrow, will see a drastic departure from previous conferences with more interaction by participants. So says Dr Kevin Brown, chair of the conference’s programme and content...
With just four days remaining until the commencement of the 10th Biennial Diaspora Conference, the ambitious goal of attracting 1,000 participants from the diaspora appears increasingly elusive. Compounding the challenge, prospective attendees are...
There will be no official Jamaica Independence gala in New York this year. The Independence gala is usually organised by the Jamaican Consulate in New York in conjunction with non-profit organisation, Jamaica Promise. In a statement, the consulate...
A 37-year-old Jamaica woman was killed early Saturday morning in the Bronx when her throat was slashed. She has been identified as Ashley Smith of a Mount Vernon address. The police had, up to yesterday, not yet made any arrest in her death nor...
United States (US) President Joe Biden has described Caribbean Americans as dreamers, doers and leaders who are always finding ways to push the US towards a more perfect union. In a proclamation marking Caribbean-American Heritage Month, Biden said...
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...
