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Thirty-one workers from the Jamaican hospitality industry have received cheques totalling US$268,000 (J$23.8 million) from their lawsuit settlement with North American inter-city bus company, Greyhound. The Overseas Hotel Employment (H2B) programme workers were injured in an accident in March 2007, involving the Greyhound bus they were travelling in from Florida to their places of employment in the state of Missouri,...

The Jamaica Trade and Invest (JTI) has reported that its first trade and investment seminar in Germany is already receiving expressions of interest in the island's maritime and renewable energy sectors. In addition, the JTI European Regional Manager, Mr. Laurence Jones, told JIS News that there is also strong interest from German firms in the planned inward investment mission to...

Jamaica has no need to worry about a threat to its ethanol exports to the United States (US) as the country's regulatory regime for imported ethanol is not likely to change in the near future. US trade representative, Ambassador Ronald Kirk, gave this assurance when he met with Jamaica's Ambassador to the US, His Excellency Anthony Johnson at the Embassy...

Jamaican lawyer, Dr. Delroy Beckford, examines the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) regulation of trade remedies and the power dynamics of countries settling disputes in his book 'Power and Judicial Activism in the WTO: The Appellate Body's Interpretation of Trade Remedy Agreements'. The book, which was launched at the Courtleigh Hotel in Kingston on October 1, looks at some landmark rulings...

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says that a record number of Canadian visitors are expected in the island during the upcoming winter tourist season. "Canada is our fastest growing market," said Minister Bartlett. "Two years ago, the Canadian market was providing around 150,000 Canadian stopover visitors and for this year, we're looking at close to 300,000, which represents a...

The health and wellness of citizens of St. James will be given top priority, when sister cities, Atlanta in the USA and Montego Bay, stage their 14th annual Health Fair, at the St. John's Methodist Church Action Centre, Montego Bay, Monday (October 5) to Friday (October 9). Citizens will again benefit from the services of about 16 medical professionals and...

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...