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Queen Diamond Jubilee Fund Gives £2 Million to Jamaica

Jamaican charities and youth projects stand to benefit from approximately £2 million or more than J$340 million from the Queen Diamond Jubilee Fund. The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust is a charitable foundation established in 2012 to mark and celebrate...

Representatives from the Jamaica Kidney Care Foundation speak with parents at the Spanish Jamaican Foundation’s back-to-school health and information fair at the Spot Valley High School in St. James on Friday (August 21).

Hundreds Receive Free Health Checks for Back-To-School

High Commissioner to London, Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet-Assamba (left), presents a special award to Delores Cooper, OD for two decades of service to Jamaica and the United Kingdom (UK) Diaspora. Occasion was an Independence Day Reception hosted by the High Commission at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London on August 5. Sharing the moment is Honorary Consul, Wade Lyn.

Jamaican Charities to Benefit from UK Independence Service

Photo Caption: Charge D’Affaires of the Embassy of Jamaica, Mrs. Marsha Coore-Lobban (front left), joins the large congregation in singing a hymn of praise at the annual church service of thanksgiving commemorating Jamaica’s 53rd year of independence at the Dunbarton Chapel, Howard University School of Law on Sunday, August 2, 2015.

Human Capital Jamaica’s Greatest Asset-PM

: Mrs. Yodit Getachew Hylton, the Honorary Consul of Ethiopia in Jamaica, Hon. Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes, State Minister for Industry, Investment and Commerce, Professor Winston Davidson, Head of the University of Technology School of Public Health & Health Technology, Her Excellency Mathu Theda Joyini, High Commissioner for South Africa to Jamaica, Ambassador Girma Birru, Ambassador of Ethiopia to Jamaica, His Excellency Ariel Fernandez Ambassador of Argentina to Jamaica and his wife Helene Fernandez.

Jamaica Welcomes New Ethiopian Ambassador

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Jamaican Government Rejects Portions of 2015 Trafficking in Persons US State Department Report

The Jamaican Government has registered its deep disappointment with aspects of the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report of the United States State Department (released on Monday July 27, 2015), and with the continuation of the Tier 2 Watch List ranking which Jamaica received last year. The Report states that “Jamaica does not comply with the minimum standards for the elimination...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. A.J. Nicholson (right) and Venezuelan Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Maria Jacqueline Mendoza (left), lay a wreath at the monument of Simon Bolivar, at Bolivar Square, National Heroes Circle on Friday, July 24, to commemorate the birthday of Simon Bolivar.

11 years ago Foreign Affairs

Principles of Simon Bolivar Still Relevant – Senator Nicholson

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson, says the principles of unity and cooperation exemplified by the Venezuelan military leader and liberator, Simon Bolivar, are still relevant today. Simon Bolivar played a key role in Latin America’s independence movement against British rule. He was born on July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela and died at...

Protocol Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Marva Campbell (centre), shows her Certificate of Attendance, obtained from the prestigious Diplomatic School in Madrid, Spain, to the Ministry’s Director of Training, Geraldine Myles (left); and Spanish-Jamaican Foundation (SJF) General Manager, Karen Donaldson, during a recent welcome reception held for her at the offices of the Embassy of Spain and SJF, in New Kingston. Mrs. Campbell pursued a Masters Degree in Diplomacy and International Relations at the institution during the 2014/15 academic year, and is currently preparing her thesis for submission to complete the programme, following which she will be conferred with her degree.

11 years ago Foreign Affairs

Jamaican Benefits from Studying at Spain’s Diplomatic School

Protocol Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Marva Campbell, recently returned to Jamaica, after completing studies at Spain’s prestigious Diplomatic School, in Madrid. Mrs. Campbell was awarded a scholarship to the institution, courtesy of Spain’s former Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Celsa Nuño, which was intended to provide her with the opportunity for advanced and specialized...

The late former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela (left), walks with the late former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, when he arrived in the island in July of 1991. Mr. Mandela died on December 5 at the age of 95. (FILE)

11 years ago Foreign Affairs

Nelson Mandela International Day Message

Nelson Mandela International Day 18th July 2015 Message by Senator the Honourable Arnold J. Nicholson QC Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade On 10th December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 18th July as Nelson Mandela International Day. In so doing, the United Nations recognised the long history of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s leading...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A. J. Nicholson.

11 years ago Foreign Affairs

CARICOM Considers Debt Relief Proposal

CARICOM is considering a proposal for the region to pursue gradual write-off of its multi-lateral debt as a means of economic prosperity. The debt relief strategy was put forward by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the 36th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held recently in Barbados. United Nations...

Ambassador to the United States, and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS ), His Excellency Stephen Vasciannie, has been elected to chair OAS Legal Committee.

11 years ago Foreign Affairs

Vasciannie’s Tenure as Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Comes To An End

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade announces that His Excellency Stephen Vasciannie, Ambassador of Jamaica to the United States of America (USA) and Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States (OAS), will demit office at the end of his three-year contract on 17th July, 2015. Ambassador Vasciannie has opted to return to academic life at the university...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson, addressing Friday’s (June 26) sitting of the Senate, at Gordon House, in downtown Kingston.

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Jamaica Making Strides in UN Development Agenda

Jamaica is making strides in its preparations to meet the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson. The UN is in the process of defining a post-2015 development Agenda, to be launched at a Summit in September 2015, which is the target date for realizing...