Come next year, there could be direct flights from Bradley International Airport, in Connecticut, to Jamaica, as a result of talks between Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ralph Thomas, and Executive Director of the airport, Kevin Dillon. “Direct service from Jamaica will serve a whole core of our population that we try to serve here in the Hartford,...

Work is advanced on the International Migration and Development Policy, which seeks to address the challenges and opportunities associated with migration. State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Arnaldo Brown, said that preparation of the policy has advanced to the Green Paper stage for “further and deeper” discussions in order to fine-tune the document, thus taking it to...

United States Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, says scores of power brokers with Jamaican lineage are making their way on the world stage in every sector of the US economy. Giving the keynote address  at the annual awards banquet of  the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, at the Hilton Rose Hall, on November 13, Ms. Clarke said the Jamaican Diaspora in the...

Residents of Gregory Park, St. Catherine, are set to benefit from a $15 million community resource centre. The facility, which was officially opened today (November 18), was constructed under the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Community Empowerment and Transformation Project, Phase II (COMET II). The Gregory Park Community Resource Centre boasts a Community Development Council/Community-Based Organisations (CDC/CBO) office,...

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet Assamba, is the recipient of the ‘Joe Biden Development Educator of the Year 2014-2015’ Award for the Caribbean. The award, presented by the International Credit Union Leadership Development and Education Foundation, was made at a ceremony in London on Saturday, November 14. The High Commissioner was nominated for the...

As a country whose culture is world renowned, Jamaica recognized UNESCO’s invaluable role in promoting the cultural and creative industries as key drivers of development. This message was conveyed by Jamaica’s permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Ambassador Vilma McNish, as she delivered Jamaica’s policy statement at the 38th General Conference of UNESCO at the organization’s headquarters in Paris on 4 November...

State Minister in the Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Ministry, Hon. Arnaldo Brown, has hailed Simón Bolívar’s Jamaica Letter for engendering the entrenchment of regional integration among Latin American and Caribbean nations. Speaking at a symposium, held at the Regional Headquarters Building on  the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, on November 11, which examined the progression...

High Commissioner to London, Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet Assamba, has invited the 2015/16 Jamaican Chevening Scholars to participate in activities hosted by the High Commission while they are studying in the United Kingdom (UK). Mrs. Ndombet Assamba, who met with five of the 11 Jamaican scholars at her office in London, on November 5, said the High Commission has a...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will be providing support to Caribbean countries to enable them to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, consist of 17 goals that are focussed on ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting oceans and forests. They build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which countries...