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Jamaica's Consul General to New York, Mrs. Geneive Brown-Metzger, says the naming of the four corners of White Plains Road and Gun Hill Road in Bronx, New York, as Marcus Garvey Square, will ensure that future generations of Jamaicans remember the outstanding legacy of Jamaica's first National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey. The Consul General was speaking at the...

Sub-grant contracts totalling $11.4 million were signed Friday (August 28) for community organisations to undertake small projects, under the European Union's (EU) Banana Support Programme. In March, the EU and the Government signed off on a grant of more than $211 million, under the Rural Economic and Social Infrastructure Support Project for Jamaica's Traditional Banana Growing Parishes (RESISP). The programme...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) on Thursday (August 27), received a US$25,000 (J$2.2 million) donation from the Government of Mexico, to support the reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Gustav, which lashed the island in August of 2008. Mexican Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Lenora Rueda, presented the cheque to Director General of ODPEM,...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is investigating the circumstances surrounding an attack on the Jamaican Consulate in Toronto, early Wednesday morning (August 26), which left minor damage. In a release Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade stated that, according to official reports, at about 4 a.m., three persons threw two 'molotov cocktail' devices through a window...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), aimed at getting investors for the development of the proposed Caymanas Economic Zone, was signed Tuesday (August 25) between the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce and Inter Continental Capital Worldwide Limited, a company based in Hong Kong. Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Hon. Karl Samuda, explained that the Ministry had been negotiating with...

The Organization of American States' (OAS) Mission which visited Honduras, August 24-25, to promote the San Jose Accord as a resolution to the constitutional crisis in that country, has conceded that its efforts lacked the support of the interim administration. According to a statement issued today by the mediation team, which included Jamaica's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, is in Honduras as a part of an Organization of American States (OAS) Foreign Ministers team seeking to resolve the political crisis created by the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. President Zelaya, who was democratically elected in 2006, was attempting to amend the constitution to...

Receptionist and telephone operator at the Ministry of Transport and Works, Avis Chuck, was all smiles and exuberance on Thursday (August 21), when she received a new motorised wheelchair, courtesy of the Jamaica Visionaries Association of Canada. "I feel glad, I feel good; great," Miss Chuck uttered, during the brief handing over ceremony at the Ministry's Maxfield Avenue office, Kingston....

Jerkfest, the biggest food festival of its kind in Ontario, Canada, was staged on Saturday and Sunday (August 8 and 9) at Centennial Park, Etobicoke, on the outskirts of the city of Toronto. On Saturday, featured artistes were Frankie Paul and Georgia, delivering to a very gratified crowd who braved the rain armed with their umbrellas. Paul, a veteran and...

Jamaicans living in the Diaspora now have a greater opportunity to network among themselves, and to know more about Jamaica than ever before, as a result of the establishment of a Diaspora website. "Not all the delegates have spent as much time understanding Jamaica, reading the newspapers everyday, keeping up-to-date on the news and that is understandable but, in this...

The Government's investment promotion agency, Jamaica Trade and Invest (JTI) is exploring the possibility of establishing joint venture investment linkages between Jamaican entrepreneurs and their Chinese counterparts, particularly in the areas of textiles and tourism, JTI President, Robert Gregory, has disclosed. These were two of the main areas in which mutual interest of possible business partnerships was expressed by stakeholders...

The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is sponsoring the all-Jamaican masquerade band, 'Jamaican Twist', at this year's Notting Hill Carnival, which will hit the streets of London England on August 29 and 30. The JTB branding will appear on the colourful Jamaican Twist float, along with images of Jamaica, to give a true sense of what the island has to offer...