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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...

With the successful docking of Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas at the Falmouth cruise ship pier in Trelawny, on February 17, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange has expressed confidence that the port and town of Falmouth will be ready for the mega cruise liner, Oasis of the Seas, on March 22. This confidence by the...

The Office of the Children's Advocate (OCA)is reporting that it received 1,778 complaints of incidents relating to infringements of the rights and welfare of children over the five-year period leading up to December 2010. These include cases involving violence against children, including physical and sexual abuse; sudden deaths of children in state care; children of parents, who are incarcerated; children...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has said the country owes a debt of gratitude to the late Ambassador of Culture, Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou), for the dignity and integrity she brought to the Jamaican people. “She helped us to see ourselves as we are and taught us how not to be ashamed of who we...