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Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks, while lauding the Diaspora's philanthropic efforts and remittances to the island, says nationals abroad have a key role to play in the country's social and economic development through investment and entrepreneurship. "Remittances, in particular, have become an important feature of many households (but) the Diaspora can play a much more...

Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, said that all efforts would be made to increase exports from Jamaica to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from just under US $100 million to US $300 million. "All efforts will be made to fortify a stronger trade relationship between Jamaica and Philadelphia," the Ambassador said at the African and Caribbean Business Council's awards dinner...

Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks has said that while the island is faced with the challenges posed by the global economic crisis, the prospects for its long-term sustainable economic development are strong. Addressing over 70 members of the Philadelphia business community, at a luncheon hosted by the Jamaica Trade Council of Greater Philadelphia, at the...

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...