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Despite the current economic crisis worldwide, the number of Canadian visitors to Jamaica has been increasing and this has enabled the country to be one of only three markets in the Caribbean to record growth in visitor arrivals in 2009. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, addressing travel writers in Toronto, Canada, recently, said for the first three months of...

Minister of Energy and Mining, Hon. James Robertson, will depart the island Wednesday (June 10) for a Meeting of Energy Ministers from the PetroCaribe member states in St. Kitts. The meeting takes place Thursday (June 11), and the Ministers are expected to discuss matters of common interest and, in particular, areas of co-operation. The Ministerial meeting will serve as a...

A delegation from the Rotary Club of Falls Church, Virginia in the United States, is slated to visit the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre in Jamaica next month, to assess areas of need and see how the club can offer assistance. Club President, Carlota McCormack, said that the visit to the island by the club is as a result of...

Southwark Council, in South London, United Kingdon (UK), has voted veteran Jamaican-born community campaigner and the borough's first black Mayor, Sam King, among 10 persons and institutions to be honoured with a commemorative Blue Plaque. Mr. King was born in Portland, in 1926, and first lived in England when he volunteered to join the Royal Air Force during World War...

Today, Monday, 8th June 2009, marks the first World Oceans Day. As Chairman of the National Council on Ocean and Coastal Zone Management (NCOCZM), I am particularly pleased that attention is being devoted to one of the most vital resources on our planet - the ocean. The concept of World Oceans Day began in 1992 when more than 100 Heads...

Assistant Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, is urging CARICOM countries to provide greater support for Haiti. Speaking at an OAS press briefing at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, Friday (June 5), Ambassador Ramdin said there was a moral obligation for CARICOM to show much more political commitment and support to Haiti, as a member...

It is still unclear whether Cuba will rejoin the Organisation of American States (OAS), despite passage of a resolution on Wednesday removing a 47-year ban during the OAS 39th General Assembly in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. OAS Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, has said that while the organisation has removed the obstacles to Cuba's return, it is up to...

Project Abroad Jamaica will be undertaking a number of programmes in Jamaica for the 2009/10 period, as the organisation continues its voluntary work in the island. Projects Abroad Country Manager, Bridgette Barrett, speaking at a partnership workshop in Mandeville Manchester yesterday (June 4), said that these include undertakings in the areas of culture, medicine and health care, conservation and the...

Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, Canada, Anne-Marie Bonner, has described author and communications guru, Easton Lee, as "a master storyteller and a great edutainer." She was speaking at the Toronto launch of Mr. Lee's latest book, 'Run Big 'Fraid', which took place at the University of Toronto's William Doo Auditorium, on May 28. The Consul General said Mr. Lee wrote...

The Government of Jamaica has welcomed the clearance of a shipment of Jamaican beef patties by the Trinidad and Tobago authorities. This action follows several weeks of consultations, including at the highest levels, between the Government of Jamaica and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago on the matter of the importation of Jamaican patties into Trinidad and Tobago. Deputy Prime...

Expectations are high about the benefits that will accrue to Jamaica when the country's National Report on its progress in meeting and implementing the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, is presented at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) in Geneva, Switzerland, in July. The report, which was jointly undertaken by the...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, departed the island this afternoon (Monday June 1) to attend the 39th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 2nd to the 3rd of June, 2009. The OAS is the main multilateral forum in the Western Hemisphere addressing...