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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1012"] Her Excellency Laurie Peters[/caption] Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, has lauded the Government for its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “We have all been impressed with Jamaica, especially the early response to managing the pandemic and to ensure that there was balance, looking at not only saving liv...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="375"] Wilmore Webley, associate professor of microbiology at the University of Massachusetts,[/caption] A down payment has already been made for Jamaica to access the coronavirus vaccine for a sliver of the population once it becomes available, but failure to immunize a significant number of nationals is unlikely to eliminate COVID-19 in the north Caribbean island, an exper...

Lester Hinds, Gleaner writer.  BRONX, New York: It was a chilly day in New York but many Jamaicans and other Caribbean nationals stood in lines to cast their votes in the 2020 presidential and congressional elections. Jamaican Leonia Young was among the voters. However, by midday when she arrived to cast her ballot in the Northeast Bronx, the lines had dwindled. “It was very important to me to vote. I am no...