The number of social workers employed within the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s parish offices will be bolstered with the recruitment of an additional 200 practitioners. They will add to the close to 200 social workers who are already engaged in these spaces and at the Ministry’s head office in Kingston, said Portfolio Minister, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. ....

A plaque will be unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 25 to honour Jamaica’s first National Hero, the Rt. Excellency Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The event will take place at the Big Bethel AME Church where Garvey made his first appearance and delivered a public lecture on March 25, 1917, marking the 108th anniversary of the historic address. The unveiling ceremony...

Jamaica is being touted as a prime destination for high-value agricultural investments. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, highlighted that the country is at a pivotal stage in its transformation, pointing out that the Ministry’s key objectives are to drive investment, expand trade, and strengthen food security. “To achieve this objective, the nation must collaborate with its...

Former Ambassador to the United States, Audrey P. Marks, on Thursday (March 13), bade farewell to the Embassy staff as she demits office to take up a position in the Senate. Ambassador Marks has served as Jamaica's top diplomat in Washington DC from 2010 to 2012 and 2016 to present. At a special meeting, Ambassador Marks expressed her deepest appreciation...

Jamaica has been gradually strengthening diplomatic ties with countries across the African continent. Last year, Jamaica and the Republic of Tunisia, a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, established diplomatic relations (September 26), with the signing of a Joint Communique by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith and her Tunisian counterpart,...

Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has announced the appointment of Major General (Retired) Antony Anderson, former Commissioner of Police, as Jamaica’s Ambassador-designate to the United States of America and Permanent Representative-designate to the Organisation of American States (OAS). “We are very pleased that Major General Anderson will assume this role at a...

Hundreds of social work professionals, policymakers, academics and students from Jamaica and overseas are expected to participate in the second International Social Work Conference (ISWC), scheduled for Tuesday, March 18 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon Kamina Johnson-Smith, is expected to give opening remarks. It is organised by...