NEW YORK: Some 35 new Jamaican citizens, including a one-year old, were sworn in last Thursday at the Jamaican Consulate in Manhattan, New York. At the same function, six persons from the Jamaican community were presented with the Consul General’s.
Help Jamaica Medical Mission, the New Jersey-based non-profit organisation that undertakes medical missions to Jamaica, raised some US$25,000 at its recent award and fundraising gala, which will be used to offset some of the costs for next year’s.
The Ulster Spring Health Centre in Trelawny has been adopted by the Jamaican Organization of New Jersey (JON-J), which aims to spend J$1 million each year on the facility. The first J$1-million payment was made last year and another is currently.