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Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks, was given a tremendous reception Monday evening (June 28), after presenting her credentials to President Barrack Obama at the White House, earlier. Former U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, who is of Jamaican parentage, was among the large number of guests on hand to honour Ambassador Marks at the reception...

Transportation Specialist at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, John Lewis, says a concerted effort is now being made to revise a multi-lateral air service agreement within CARICOM, which was signed prior to the signing of the revised Treaty of Chaguaramas in Trinidad and Tobago, in 2001. He explained that the objective is to bring the agreement in conformity with the...

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, IMF Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and OAS Secretary-General, Jos

Having successfully met the targets of the first test of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Standby Arrangement (SBA), Jamaica can now access 63.7 million Special Drawing Rights (SDR) equivalent to approximately $8 billion or just under US$94 million. On Wednesday (June 23), the Executive Board of the IMF concluded the review of Jamaica's first quarter economic performance under the SBA....

Prime Minister Bruce Golding leaves the island tomorrow (June 24) to attend a special session of the G8 Summit in Muskoka, Canada. Mr. Golding is one of three leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean who have been invited to the Summit, the others being Presidents Alvaro Uribe of Columbia and Rene Preval of Haiti. Heads of Government of seven...

Jamaica's Honorary Consul in Edmonton, Canada, Colleen Neita, is very dedicated to Jamaica and its future development. Jamaica's Honorary Consul in Edmonton, Canada, Ms. Colleen Neita, is dedicated to the country's development. It is because of this simple fact that she accepted the Government of Jamaica's invitation in June 2008, to serve as envoy to the Canadian city, which is...

Age is just a number, goes the old saying. This is especially true for Jamaican-born Veronica Wisdom, who celebrated her 101st birthday three weeks ago. Born in Alexandria, St. Ann, Jamaica on May 23, 1909, she moved to the United States over 60 years ago and currently resides in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Since coming to the US, she...

As the region continues to rally around Haiti following the devastating January 12 earthquake, a meeting of members of the Caribbean Diaspora is underway in Washington DC to ramp up contributions in the areas of professional skills and services, which the country requires at this time. Special Representative of CARICOM Heads on Haiti, the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, said that...

The postponed fourth Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference, originally scheduled for June 14 to 17 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande, Ocho Rios, St. Ann could be rescheduled for 2011. Chair of the Diaspora Conference Planning Committee and General Manager of Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), Earl Jarrett, said the Conference may be held June, 2011. Chairman of the Diaspora Planning Committee,...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Karl Samuda, says the Jamaica booth at the Shanghai 2010 trade expo, in China, has been well represented, attracting some 25,000 visitors daily, since the start of the event on May 1. "The CARICOM (Caribbean Community) pavilion apparently is a very attractive pavilion, attracting some 27,000 visitors over the two-day period, June 2...

The reconstruction and long-term development of Haiti will be one of the main agenda topics at the 31st Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government in Montego Bay next month. CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Edwin Carrington, speaking at a preparatory media clinic held yesterday (June 15) at the University of the West Indies' Mona campus, said that the devastation by...

Secretary General of CARICOM, Dr. Edwin Carrington, says CARICOM Heads of Government will be returning to the "cradle of the modern Caribbean integration movement", when they meet in Montego Bay next month. "Many may not remember that it was in Montego Bay in 1947, that a number of prominent figures of the then British Caribbean colonies gathered to discuss closer...