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Six communities signed agreements with the European Union (EU) Monday (June 7) for grants totalling $6.5 million, to carry out poverty alleviation projects addressing youth empowerment, nutrition enhancement and literacy. The grants are being made available under the EU's Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP) II, which is partly funded by the Jamaican Government and implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund...

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Anthony Johnson, has called on educators in the Diaspora to provide more support for education in Jamaica, including making positive links with schools and teachers. This, he said, would help to support the various programmes now in place to improve educational attainment, and enhance the quality of teaching equipment and facilities. The High...

The Jamaica Community Crime and Violence Prevention Programme, financed by a grant of US$2.65 million from the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), was officially launched on Thursday (June 3) at the Spanish Court Hotel, New Kingston. The programme will support the Jamaica Social Investment Fund's (JSIF) efforts to reduce crime and violence in high risk and vulnerable inner-city communities. Managing...

Jamaica will, later this year, be the featured destination in a popular food and lifestyle magazine owned by world famous celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver. The editor of Jamie Magazine, Andy Harris, world renowned photographer, David Loftus, and writer, Kevin Gould, spent just over a week in Jamaica on a "foodie" road trip across the island. Jamaica Tourist Board District Sales...

Childhood friends rekindled old ties, conversations flowed freely, and food and spirits were bountiful, as thousands gathered at the Anthony Wayne Park in Bear Mountain, Rockland County, New York, on Sunday, May 31, for the 29th annual Friends of Trelawny Association (FOTA) reunion picnic. The buses and cars began rolling into the Anthony Wayne Recreation Area at 6:00 a.m., and...

Jamaica's Ambassador-designate to the United States, Her Excellency, Audrey Marks, has commended the Gleaner Company for its continued support of the Spelling Bee Competition and the sponsorship of Jamaica's entry in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Competition, now underway in Washington, D.C. In welcoming Jamaica's Spelling Bee participant in the competition, Owayne Rodney, and his coach, Primrose Swaby, at the...

The late Clovis John Brooks is remembered in Toronto, Canada, for his passion and dedication to humanity and children in particular. As a community stalwart, he founded the John Brooks Community Foundation and Scholarship Fund in 1981, to recognise academic excellence in high school students of African descent. When Mr. Brooks died in 2008 at the age of 84, it...

Jamaicans residing in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, have been assured that relations between Jamaica and the United States of America (USA), have not been damaged by the recent series of events involving an extradition request by the US Government. Addressing a town hall meeting at the St. Gabriel's Church Hall in Brooklyn, New York,...

The Directors of a Jamaican owned company in Birmingham, United Kingdom, have donated

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has underscored the pivotal role which the Jamaican Diaspora will need to play in the Government's marketing and promotional campaign in North American and the United Kingdom, over the next nine months. The US$10 million campaign, being spearheaded by the Tourism Ministry and the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), kicks off on June 4 and is...

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) continues to facilitate the development of national standards, by engaging representatives from various industries in identifying and developing standards relevant to the areas they represent. Currently, there are a total of 66 standards in various stages of the promulgation of the process. Of these, there are 31 standards being revised, 18 being adapted and...

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), His Excellency Anthony Johnson has commended members of the Jamaican Diaspora UK, for their decision not to cancel their visit to Jamaica next month, despite the postponement of the biennial Diaspora Convention. He told JIS News today (May 29), that the decision exemplified the tremendous strength of belief Jamaicans in the UK have...