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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...

KINGSTON – The Senate, last week, extended condolences and sympathies to the Government and people Japan, in the wake of the loss of lives and infrastructural damage sustained as a result of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The 8.9-magnitude quake, which predominantly impacted Japan’s northeast region, unleashed a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and more than 50 aftershocks, mostly with 6.0...

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh will leave Jamaica today, March 31, for the Eighteenth Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM), to be held in Belize City, Belize. The Meeting slated for Friday, April 1 will focus on the governance...

A Jamaican delegation will travel to Barbados on Wednesday March 30 to investigate claims made by a Jamaican woman, Shanique Myrie, that she was stripped and twice subjected to cavity search at the Grantley Adams International Airport in Bridgetown. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, told the House of Representatives, Thursday March...

TORONTO – Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte, has said Jamaica has the potential to be a first class, first world country. “The journey will not be an easy one and our problems will not be solved overnight, but our potential as a nation far exceeds our problems,”...

Jamaicans are understandably outraged by the treatment which Ms. Shanique Myrie has reported she experienced in Barbados on March 14. Given the responsibilities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to protect the interest of Jamaican nationals overseas, Jamaicans would wish to know what actions the Ministry has taken and will take in response to Ms. Myrie’s report...

KINGSTON – The Ministry of Energy and Mining has reported overwhelming public support for the restart of distribution of fluorescent bulbs, in the final phase of the Cuba-Jamaica Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) Project, commonly called the Cuban light bulb distribution programme. Speaking with JIS News, Ministry spokesman, Denis Miller, said he was quite pleased with the response the team  received...

MIAMI – The 37th annual Conference of the Florida Caribbean Students Association (FCSA) will begin on Friday, April 1 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, with more than 600 Caribbean students from tertiary institutions across Florida in attendance. Under the theme ‘Inform, Inspire and Impact: Enhancing the Beauty of the Caribbean’, the three-day event will focus on sustainability of...

LONDON – Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), His Excellency Anthony Johnson, has called for a total scrapping of Britain’s Air Passenger Duty (APD). Mr. Johnson said Wednesday March 23 that, while the British government’s decision to delay the increase in the duty represented temporary relief for travellers to Caribbean destinations, scrapping the tax would have a more...

MIAMI – Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, who is based in Washington, D.C., will pay her first official visit to the state of Florida from April 9 to April 13. Mrs. Marks will also be the special guest at the seventh annual American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ) gala, to be held on Saturday, April 9,...