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TORONTO – Three women of Jamaican heritage and one Antiguan national, who, through their accomplishments stand as positive images of black women, were recently honoured by the Ryerson University in Canada. At the third annual Viola Desmond Day celebration held recently at Ryerson's Victoria Street campus, the four were presented with awards named after black women, who have made significant...

LONDON – It was Jamaica Day on March 15 at the International Food and Drink Expo (IFE), being held at the Excel Centre in London. Jamaica was the featured country on the ‘Meet the World’ stage with all-day cooking demonstrations by award winning United Kingdom (UK)-based Jamaican chef Colin Brown, while the story of Jamaican food was told by well-known...

A special tribute to the late international cultural icon, Hon. Louise Bennett Coverley (‘Miss Lou’), played to a packed room at the conference centre at the British Library   on International Women’s Day (March 8). The ‘Walk Good: A Tribute to Miss Lou’ event featured renowned British writer, Valarie Bloom; well know storyteller, Jan Blake (both of Jamaican Heritage), as well...

National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Sampars Cash & Carry and the Tourism Product Development Company Limited (TPDCo) signed a 2-year contract to landscape, beautify and maintain a section of Marcus Garvey Drive, Kingston, Monday (March 7). The project costs $4.17 million, of which approximately $1 million is start up capital. The remaining funds will be allocated over a 2-year...

There is a renewed thrust by the Government to have the criminal record of National Hero,The Rt. Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, expunged. Mr. Garvey, Jamaica’s first National Hero, was convicted of mail fraud in the United States of America (USA) in 1923. In a statement to the House of Representatives at Gordon House on Tuesday (March 1), Minister of Youth,...

Thousands of Jamaican women could benefit economically from a project to be launched this week by the Government. The project, titled: ‘The Way Out: Jamaican Women’s Political and Economic Empowerment’, will be launched on International Women’s Day, Tuesday, March 8, under the theme: ‘Education and Training: Decent Work for Women’. Speakers will include the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture,...

A Jamaican High Commission UK 2012 Fund has been launched to provide financing for projects and activities to be held in the United Kingdom to celebrate the country’s 50th anniversary of Independence next year. The establishment of the fund was one of the initiatives coming out of a meeting of Jamaican community leaders hosted by High Commissioner to the UK,...

Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Pamela Mordecai, three Jamaican writers who now call Canada home, between them have published hundreds of fiction and non-fiction stories and poems, and won a plethora of awards for their writing skills. It is because of their achievements why the world’s busiest public library system, the Toronto Public Library (TPL) with its 99 branches, included...

TORONTO — Seven Jamaicans were among a group of nine persons honoured by the City of Markham in Canada, as part of the city’s annual celebrations of Black History Month (February), to recognise those who have contributed “to the strength and vibrancy” of the city through their field of expertise. Organised by the City of Markham, the York Region District...

Hundreds of students and residents from western Jamaica and other parts of the island, converged at the birthplace of National Hero, the Right Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante in Blenheim, Hanover on Thursday (February 24), to commemorate 127th anniversary of his birth. The civic ceremony, which featured tributes in song, speech, drama and dance from students and cultural groups, was a...

A call has been made for a chair to be established at the University of the West Indies (UWI) to facilitate research on Jamaica's first National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey. President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Keith Smith, who made the appeal as he addressed the opening of the annual Marcus Garvey Fair on Sunday (February 20)...

More than half of the 1,680 children who went missing during 2010 were found, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), Ealan Powell, has disclosed. Speaking at the opening ceremony for a week-long series of training workshops being hosted by the children’s advocacy group, Hear the Children Cry, at the Altamont Court Hotel, New...