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Jamaica has won international praise for making it easier in the past year, to register property, through fast-track procedures it introduced, saving local entrepreneurs time and money. According to the 'Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs', "Jamaica eased the transfer of property by lowering transfer taxes and fees, offering expedited registration procedures, and making information from the company...

Jamaica's Honorary Consul in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Kenneth Guscott, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, Dr. Harold Mignott, have been both honoured for distinguished service to the Jamaican community in the United States. The event took place at the first annual conference of the Jamaica Diaspora Northeast USA Region Advisory Board, on Saturday,...

The best of Jamaican food and drink will be on display at Commonwealth Fair 2010 to be held at the Kensington Town Hall in London on Saturday, November 13. Each year, staff from the Jamaican High Commission and their friends and families, voluntarily organise and man the Jamaican stand at the popular event. The funds raised from the fair will...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has congratulated the Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR) on their achievement. Dr. Baugh, who was speaking at the official opening of OOCUR's 8th Annual Conference currently underway at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, noted that the organization has the...

New United States Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Pamela Bridgewater, says she is delighted to have been posted to Jamaica by the Obama administration. Speaking at her first press briefing since arriving last Thursday, at the U.S. Embassy in Kingston Wednesday (November 3), Ambassador Bridgewater recalled her previous stint here in the 1980s as the embassy's labour/political attach

Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, is calling on Caribbean Americans to become fully engaged, and invest in their children's education. She noted that, otherwise, even brilliant children risk falling through the cracks in the education system of their adopted country. Ambassador Marks was addressing Caribbean Americans on Sunday (October 31), at an education rally/conference...

A London based Jamaican restaurant, Colin Brown, has received an AA Rosette Award for excellence. Jamaican born Chef, Colin Brown, proprietor of the dockland based restaurant bearing his name, said the award was the first for a Jamaican or Caribbean restaurant in the United Kingdom. Mr. Brown told JIS News that he was proud of the achievement of the 18-month-old...

A London based Jamaican restaurant, Colin Brown, has received an AA Rosette Award for excellence. Jamaican born Chef, Colin Brown, proprietor of the dockland based restaurant bearing his name, said the award was the first for a Jamaican or Caribbean restaurant in the United Kingdom. Mr. Brown told JIS News that he was proud of the achievement of the 18-month-old...

The third bi-annual Diaspora conference, postponed in June of this year due to the unrest in Kingston, has been rescheduled to June, 2011. This was disclosed by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, while delivering the main address at the First Annual Northeast Diaspora conference, at the West Indies...

Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks has challenged members of the Jamaican Diaspora to play a more strategic role in Jamaica's economic development. Delivering the keynote address at the 5th Trade and Investment Summit sponsored by the Caribbean Trade Council (CTC), at the State House in Hartford, Connecticut on October 28, Ambassador Marks emphasised that economic and...

The Bible Society of the West Indies has launched a Patois version of the Gospel of Luke, one of the books of the New Testament, in Toronto, Canada. Called 'Jiizas - Di buk weh Luuk rait bout im', the launch took place recently at York University's Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). President of Arts and...

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, says that the government remains committed to ensuring that the voices of Jamaicans living outside of the country are heard. She was addressing a welcome reception for participants in the first annual Jamaica Diaspora Northeast United States Conference held on Friday (Oct. 29) at the West Indies...