During National Heritage Week, October 14 to 21, the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), through its radio department, will be taking a bold new look at the young lives of the National Heroes, in a seven part series. Titled ‘Young Heroes’, the series focuses on fictional stories about the lives of  Nanny of the Maroons, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, George William Gordon,...

The body of former Mayor of Portmore George Lee has arrived in Jamaica. He is to be accorded an official funeral on Thursday, October 17. Mr. Lee’s body arrived at the Norman Manley International Airport on Monday, October 14 at 8 am and was led to a funeral home in Portmore in a 20-car procession. The procession travelled along George...

Media Consultant and Lecturer at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), Fae Ellington, is encouraging the country’s youth to know their history and be inspired by the accomplishments of outstanding Jamaicans. She was delivering the main address on Monday, October 14, at the launch of the Meadowbrook High School Heritage Week activities at the institution in St. Andrew....

WASHINGTON - The work of  the late former  Deputy Prime Minister and Ambassador to the United States (US), Seymour Mullings, has been lauded  by Jamaicans in Washington, D.C. Ambassador Mullings,  who served in the US from 2001 to 2004, died on October 9 at the age of 82. He was also Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States...

Seventy residents of Ebony Park Housing Scheme, in Toll Gate, Clarendon, were presented with titles to their land on October 11, ending decades of waiting. Handing over the titles, Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, told them that they were getting a flexible instrument that guarantees ownership, improves capacity to borrow,  enables the transfer of property, and ultimately...

The Norman Manley International Airport is to receive important fire safety equipment, following Cabinet's decision to approve a contract to Oshkosh Corporation of the United States, for the manufacture and delivery of one aircraft rescue and fire-fighting vehicle and associated rescue equipment. Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, disclosed at the weekly Jamaica House media briefing...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller, has hailed new Custos of Portland, Hon. Lincoln Thaxter, as a true patriot, who is well suited for public office. In a speech read by Minister with responsibility for Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy, at the installation ceremony held yesterday (October 10), at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Port...