Groundbreaking for the new Palladium Hotel in Lucea, Hanover, is scheduled for February 18, according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. The Gleaner has learned that the 900-room luxury hotel will be constructed at a cost of over US$300 million....
The long-awaited Harmony Cove project is expected to move one step closer to getting off the ground, with Cabinet slated to receive a document outlining the financial incentives under the agreement for review. The Government of Jamaica, through...
The bodies of the late principal of Jessie Ripoll Primary School, O’Neil Stevens, and his wife, Camesha Lindsay-Stevens, have been returned to Jamaica in preparation for their funeral. Stevens and his wife were killed in a motor vehicle accident...
Jamaican immigration advocates in the United States (US) have said that the executive order signed by President Donald Trump to halt birthright citizenship is red meat to his base but will have little or no effect as birthright citizenship is...
Community leaders, elected officials, members of the Jamaican diplomatic corps, and organisations in the United States (US) and Canada, have reacted with joy and delight at US President Joe Biden’s granting of a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s first...
O’Neil Stevens, the late principal of Jessie Ripoll Primary School, and his wife, Camesha Lindsay-Stevens, were hailed yesterday as two of Jamaica’s “brightest lights”, lost to a tragic car accident just days into the new year. Paying tribute on...
With just a week to go before the end of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, members of the Jamaican Diaspora in the United States (US) are anxiously waiting to see if the outgoing commander in chief will issue a posthumous pardon to...
A federal judge in Westchester County, New York, has approved a US$9.6 million award to Nadine McKenzie, the mother of 13-year-old Shamoya McKenzie, who was fatally shot in a gang-related incident in Mount Vernon in 2016. The award aims to hold...
NEW YORK: The bodies of O’Neil Stevens and his wife, Camesha Lindsay-Stevens, are to flown home to Jamaica for burial. This was confirmed to The Gleaner by Lindsay-Stevens’ mother Veron Roper-Brown, and Khadian Henry, one of Stevens’ cousins. The...
Led by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, some 20 members of the United States (US) House of Representatives, in a letter to President Joe Biden, is urging the exoneration of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Garvey, from a 1923 conviction for the...
With Christmas just days away, Jamaicans in the United States Diaspora are gearing up for the holiday, holding on to some cherished Jamaican traditions while others are either lost or diluted. The festive meals of Christmas remain a stronghold in...
The Independence gala, hosted by the Jamaican Consulate in New York, will return next year after not being held this past August. The gala will be held on August 23 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Ticket prices will start at US$...
In Christmas messages to the Jamaican diaspora, Jamaican diplomats in the United States -- Ambassador Audrey Marks, and consuls general Alsion Wilson and Oliver Mair -- have praised its members for their continued contributions to the development...
In 2001, Lois Harris was one of several teachers recruited from Jamaica by the New York City (NYC) Department of Education under its international teacher recruitment programme, and, like so many others, her sojourn to New York was to include a...
The Anglican Bishop of Jamaica and Archbishop of the West Indies, Howard Gregory, received a prestigious honour in New York last weekend with a formal seating at the Cathedral of St John the Divine. The ceremony, hosted by the Diocese of New York,...
Jacqueline Hawthorne-Robinson has taken the reins as the new Chief Executive Officer of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery, the largest Jamaican fast-food franchise in the United States. She assumed the role in late August this year, succeeding her late...
Jamaican-American Congresswoman Yvette Clarke has been elected Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Elected unopposed, she becomes the 29th chair of the CBC and will assume the role in January for a two-year term, leading the caucus...
As the United States marks Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, Jamaicans across the country will join to observe the holiday in various ways – from having the traditional Thanksgiving dinner to visiting restaurants, or taking Thanksgiving cruises. At the...
The Jamaican Consulate in New York has described as very successful its recent outreach to Jamaicans in the Chicago area. The visit by Consul General Alsion Wilson and members of the consulate staff as well as representatives from the Passport,...
The funeral for retired Ambassador Madge Barrett, often referred to as ‘Miss Protocol’, has been set for December 16. The service of thanksgiving will be held at the University Chapel, Mona, starting at 10:30 a.m. Barrett died at home on November...
Thirty-six persons were sworn as new Jamaican citizens, while Gramps Morgan, a member of the reggae group Morgan’s Heritage, led a group of nine Jamaicans in the Tri-State area who received the Consul General’s Heritage Awards on November 15. The...
A federal judge in a Massachusetts court has dismissed a charge of money laundering brought against Dr Kingsley Chin, a Jamaica-born spinal surgeon, and the company he founded, SpineFrontier Incorporated, while castigating the Government for...
Ambassador Madge Barrett, often referred to as ‘Miss Protocol’, has died. Barrett passed away peacefully on her 87th birthday last Friday. According to her stepdaughter, Betty Barrett-Thompson, Barrett was a stickler for perfection who was always...
NEW YORK: The Jamaican diaspora in New York has lost another community stalwart with the passing of Dr Michelle Malcolm-James, president of the Organization for International Development (OID). She died suddenly last Sunday at the age of 56 years....
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke has decided to run to become the next chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Should she win, she will become the 29th chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Clarke, whose parents are Jamaicans, is currently...
