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The United Nations (UN) has established a trust fund for a permanent memorial to honour the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. A ceremony was held recently at the UN headquarters in New York U.S.A. to launch the Permanent Memorial Trust Fund and to announce the appointment of hip-hop pioneer and philanthropist Russell Simmons as Goodwill Ambassador for...

Jamaicans in the United States (US) Diaspora have come out in support of a proposal by the University of Technology (UTech), to operate the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium as the western campus of that institution. The support came last weekend at the Trelawny Business and Investment Symposium at the JFK Holiday Inn in New York, USA which was organised by the...

Conversations flowed freely, hugs and kisses were exchanged, childhood friends rekindled old ties, and food and spirits were bountiful, as thousands gathered in Queen's, New York last weekend for the annual Trelawny reunion picnic. The buses and cars began rolling into the Anthony Wayne Recreation Area at 7:00 a.m., and by noon, the grounds of the tree-lined park near Bear...

Consul General to New York, Geneive Brown Metzger, has hailed the Friends of Trelawny Association (FOTA), for its commitment to the development of parish and the wider Jamaica. Speaking at a FOTA-organised Business and Investment Symposium at the JFK Holiday Inn in Queen's, New York, U.S.A recently, Mrs. Brown Metzger told the audience of Jamaicans looking for investment opportunities in...

The Jamaica Diaspora UK Youth Association (JDYA), is hosting a special forum for young people of Jamaican heritage in Brixton, South London, on May 30. Co-ordinator of the forum, Saffron Jackson, told JIS News that the objective is to develop a deeper affinity with Jamaica among the second and third generations, by getting them more involved with the Jamaican community....

A panel discussion on the effects of the global economic crisis on the Latin America and the Caribbean region will take place at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA), 680 Park Avenue, New York City, on June 1, starting at 6:00 p.m. A team of experts in government and finance management will discuss, among other topics, the effects of...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week. First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts in preparation for a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)....

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Burchell Whiteman, has said that despite the economic turmoil that has affected some of the island's major sectors, including bauxite, the Government has preserved its commitment to keep secondary education and hospital care free. Speaking at a meeting of UK-based Jamaicans, in Oldham, Mr. Whiteman said that the social safety net to support...

Cabinet has received reports on the 20th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the 5th Summit of the Americas, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. The 20th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held in Belize, March 12-13, included discussions on...

State Minister with Responsibility for Local Government Reform in the Office of the Prime Minister, Robert Montague, has said that Jamaica will benefit significantly from its participation in the Fifth Commonwealth Local Government Conference, held in the Bahamas last week. Speaking at a press conference at the Department of Local Government on Hagley Park Road in Kingston on Thursday (May...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has congratulated the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP) McKeeva Bush, on his party's victory in Wednesday's national elections in the Cayman Islands. Four years after losing to the People's Progressive Movement (PPM), the UDP was returned to office, capturing 9 of the 15 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In his message to Mr. Bush,...

Sixty Jamaicans are to be trained in hospitality tourism and the culinary arts, under a training project to be delivered through a partnership of the Jamaican Government and Canadian colleges. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), for the project was signed between the Government and Red River College and the College of the North Atlantic, today (May 21), at the Ministry...