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South Africa's Willowridge High School plans to send 35 students to Jamaica early next year for a 10-day visit, during which they hope to compete with top Jamaican high school athletes engaged in the annual Boys and Girls Champs. The tour was initiated by the school's head coach, 2006 Commonwealth silver medallist, Geraldine Pillay, and confirmed by Jamaica's Minister of...

Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, formally declared open the Jamaican High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday (September 23). Minister Grange, who was participating in the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture in Johannesburg, was also pursuing a number of bilateral initiatives during the visit. She is the first Jamaican Minister of Government to...

Jamaicans are being trained to fill practical nursing vacancies in Canada. The provision is being made under the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) Programme, which involves collaboration with the Government of Jamaica, the Centre For Nursing Studies (CNS) in Canada and Marmicmon Integrated Marketing and Communications. Training sites are: the Nuttall Hospital in Kingston; the Brown's Town Community College in St....

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr Kenneth Baugh, on Saturday (September 26), asserted the need for the United Nations to "urgently correct and reverse the tendency toward inaction, inertia and indifference, which has so far frustrated efforts to address the development agenda" - a critical issue to enhance Jamaica's development process. The Minister...

The following public advisory was issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade on Friday (September 25): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is advising the public to ignore any advertisements for employment purporting to be from the United Nations Programme For International Cooperation and Development. There is no such entity. Anyone who has received job...

The late Hon. Lady Gladys Bustamante has been remembered as a humble and dignified person, who blazed a path for the Jamaican woman. At a memorial service held on Sunday, September 20 at the Revivaltime Tabernacle in Toronto, Canada, her godson Howard Shearer said she was at the frontline and at the forefront of the women's movement long before the...

Jamaican born Mr. Tony Chambers, who has made a name for himself as a teacher of salsa in the United Kingdom (UK), wants to put Jamaica on the map as a place for aficionados of the popular Latin music and dance form in the UK. Salsa vacation tours are popular with the growing number of salsa practitioners across the UK...

The first United States of America (USA) Jamaica Diaspora Conference will be held from October 3 to 4, at the Sheraton Airport Hotel, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the USA. Some 150 delegates representing Jamaican organisations and community interests in the Northeast, Midwest and Southern regions of the United States will convene in plenary sessions and workshops to discuss a...

The Jamaican community in Washington D.C. in the USA has donated $150,000 to the Granville Child Care Facility in Trelawny, which will go towards the construction of a counselling centre on the grounds of the facility. Information Attach

State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Dr. Ronald Robinson, has expressed appreciation to the Chinese Government and its people, for the support which that country continues to provide to Jamaica in loans, grants, technical assistance and training opportunities. Of note, he said, is the fact that Jamaica is China's number one trading partner in the...

The United Kingdom (UK) Jamaican community is being urged to continue to lobby the British Government for a review of the Airline Passenger Duty (APD) in terms of how it applies to Jamaica and other Caribbean destinations. High Commissioner His Excellency Burchell Whiteman said that while petitions for changes have not yet yielded a positive response from the UK authorities,...

More than 150 films are shot in Jamaica annually and Jamaica Trade and Invest (JTI), is hoping that Canadian filmmakers will add more to that number. At a media and trade networking reception, held for filmmakers on September 15, at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto, JTI's Investment Support Services Manager, Mr. Robert Kerr, said Jamaica was an excellent place to film,...