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...

The Government is calling on the financial sector to be watchful in ensuring that only clean money enters or passes through their systems from the new ganja industry. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson, who made the call today (October 12), said the opening of opportunities in the industry also involved risks. He was...