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KINGSTON — Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, says Jamaica’s trade policy is currently being reviewed to take into account the new realities developing in the global market for trade and investment, as well as the new partnerships that must be established. Delivering the Throne Speech at the State Opening of Parliament for the 2011/12 legislative year,...

KINGSTON — International reggae artist, Orville “Shaggy” Burrell, was awarded the International Humanitarian Award 2011 of the American Friends of Jamaica, Inc. (AFJ),  Saturday April 9, for the efforts of his Shaggy Makes a Difference Foundation. Making the presentation at the annual Peacock Soiree, at Jungle Island, Miami, President of the AFJ and former US Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency...

MIAMI — Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks was warmly received by students and faculty of the Nova Southern University, when she toured  the campus in Davie, on April 12, during her first official visit to South Florida. Ambassador Marks was invited to her alma mater as guest lecturer of the 2011 Distinguished Guest Lecture Series,...

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...