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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,...

Jamaican home builders, Gore Developers will be showcasing their suite of newly built homes at a series of road shows across the United Kingdom, from April 5 to 9. The sales team, headed by Phillip Gore will showcase Gore’s current projects and answer questions on how to purchase one of their homes. Representatives from Victoria Mutual Building Society, Jamaica National...

PORT ANTONIO – The Port Antonio Eagles Youth Marching Band was presented with approximately US$10,000 dollars worth of musical instruments, by U.S. Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater, on behalf of the United States Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance Programme, at a ceremony at the Errol Flynn Marina on Friday March 18. The equipment included antique trumpets, snare drums, professional marching bass drums,...

LONDON – The Meet Jamaica 2012 Programme had its official United Kingdom (UK) launch at the Council House in Birmingham, on March 18. This programme, which is private-public sector initiative, is seeking to increase trade in goods and services between Jamaica and the UK as well as with the wider European and world markets by capitalising on global attention that...