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The banana industry has received support from the European Union in an effort to strengthen and improve the competitiveness of Jamaica’s banana export market. Minister with responsibility for Information Daryl Vaz told  today’s (April 6) post cabinet press briefing that  a grant of J$30 million was contributed to the Hurricane Dean Material Programme.  He said an additional J$9 million was...

KINGSTON — The first of five batches of green bean Jamaican coffee, with an approximate sale value of US$425,000, will be shipped to China soon. The shipment, comprising 16,500 kilograms of Blue Mountain Coffee, should have left Jamaica Tuesday April 5, but has been delayed, and is now expected to arrive in China in early May, a Ministry of Agriculture...

Minister of Finance, Hon. Audley Shaw, has expressed gratitude to the United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development (DFID) for its $327 million (£2.4 million) in debt relief for the fiscal year 2010/11. The relief was granted on past official development assistance loans (ODA), through the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). Mr. Shaw reaffirmed the strong and historic relationship...

MIAMI — Two Jamaican nationals have been elected to head the largest body representing Caribbean American students in Florida. Danika Russell was chosen as the new president of the Florida Caribbean Students Association (FSCA) at the organisation’s 37th annual conference held at the University of Florida campus last weekend, while Courtney J. Greene will serve as vice president of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, has reiterated the importance of building on the important political, economic and other relations the Caribbean nation enjoys with the United States, at all levels. Speaking to the 141-member Maryland House of Delegates in the Maryland state capital, Annapolis, on Wednesday, March 30, Ambassador Marks stressed...

LONDON — A total of 49 paintings, capturing the exotic beauty of Jamaica’s flowers and plants, are on display at the Marianne North Gallery at Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in London. The gallery, which reopened recently, features 800 paintings from the 19th Century from all the continents and 49 are from Jamaica. The paintings and a pagoda, represent the...

TORONTO — High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Sheila Sealy Monteith is proposing that 2012 be declared the ‘Year of Jamaica in Canada’. Speaking recently to a group of Jamaican business persons at the Consulate General in Toronto, the High Commissioner said the 50th anniversary of Jamaica’s Independence in 2012 is a very important milestone for the country and all...

TORONTO — Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon Marlene Malahoo Forte, says she will seek to have at least one priority recommendation coming out of this year's biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference implemented by the government. The Minister, who has responsibility for Diaspora Affairs, was addressing a meeting of the Jamaican Diaspora...

TORONTO — Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, took time out during an official visit to Canada, recently, to pay tribute to Jamaica’s cultural icon, the late Hon Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou). The Minister, accompanied by Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Sheila Sealy Monteith, and Consul General Seth...

TORONTO – Ontario's Minister of Health Promotion and Sport, Hon Margarett Best, has congratulated Jamaica's Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, on the positive things she witnessed on a recent trip to the island. Minister Best, who is originally from May Pen, Clarendon, said that during her four-day trip, March...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon Dr. Kenneth Baugh, is urging nationwide support for the 2011 Population and Housing Census, which will be administered by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) over a four month period, beginning April 5. This year's census, the island’s fourteenth since the commencement of the modern format in 1943,...

TORONTO – Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte, has assured Jamaican nationals in Canada that positive things are happening in the island. Speaking at a reception in her honour hosted by High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Sheila Sealy Monteith, at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto on...