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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh has expressed the view that developing countries needed a stronger voice especially when dealing with the global economic crisis and climate change. Minister Baugh told visiting Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), HE Jose Miguel Insulza, on Wednesday morning at the Foreign Ministry,...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has urged United Kingdom-(UK) based Jamaicans to put pressure on their political representatives, in pressing their case against a planned increase of the Air Passenger Duty (APD) regime. Speaking at a community meeting at the Jamaican High Commission in London recently, Mr. Bartlett said the proposed increase, would be crippling to tourism in Jamaica and...

The Atlanta-Montego Bay Sister Cities Committee will host its tenth annual fundraising brunch on Sunday, March 21, at the Atlanta City Hall Atrium, downtown, Georgia. Jamaica's Honorary Consul in Atlanta, Vin Martin, who also Chairs the Sister City Committee, says proceeds will be used to offset the cost of the annual health mission to Montego Bay in October, which is...

Two Jamaicans are among six outstanding women across the globe, who will be presented with the prestigious Emerald Award by the Women of Great Esteem (WGE) Organization, at its 14th annual awards dinner and gala slated for March 28 in Brooklyn, New York. They are Medical Doctor and Educator, Dr. Rosemarie Wright-Pascoe, and Attorney & Managing Partner of the Law...

Jamaica is to benefit from US$4.3 million in grant funding under cycle six of the Caribbean Development Bank's (CDB) Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF6), which is scheduled to commence in mid 2010. The allocation is part of a provision of more than US$51 million, being made available under BNTF6, to the 10 Caribbean borrowing member countries (BMC) of the CDB....

On Friday, March 20, jerk lovers will gather in Ocho Rios for the first Jamaica Jerk Challenge. The event will feature self-taught Jamaican executive chef, Cheryl Smith of Cheryl's Global Soul, Brooklyn, New York, and UK celebrity chef, Antony Worrall Thompson, taking on some of the world's leading jerk chefs in an exclusive cook-off. Other invitees include, Jamaican, Rupert Bourne...

Jamaica's Consul General in New York, Geneive Brown Metzger, will be in the Borough of Queens, New York on Friday, March 20, at Clippers 11 Lounge, 234-36 Merrick Boulevard, Laurenton, close to the Belt Parkway. The scheduled three-hour 'meet and greet', which starts at 7:00 p.m., will give Queens' residents an opportunity to go 'one on one' with Mrs. Brown...

Community organisations in St. Thomas can now access funds from the St. Thomas Credit Union, Morant Bay, to start social and income generating projects. The organization is one of six credit unions that have received grant funding from the European Union (EU) under the Rural Diversification Programme. Speaking at a JIS/Social Development Commission (SDC) community meeting on Thursday (March 12)...

A novel on the life of National Hero Samuel Sharpe, written by Jamaican Fred Kennedy, was launched in London recently. The launch, held at the Jamaican High Commission, was part of the month-long Caribbean Book Explosion in the United Kingdom (UK) organised by Kingston-based Ian Randle Publishers. The Jamaican-born educator told JIS News that his book titled: 'Daddy Sharpe -...

A total of 66 Jamaicans will depart the island later today for jobs in North America under the Government's Overseas Employment Programme. The amount comprises 50 farm workers, who will be working in the United States of America, and 16 persons, who will take on jobs at McDonald's franchises in Canada. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, who...

The Jamaican Consulate in Miami will continue its series of community outreach, targeted at Jamaican nationals in Florida, with a session at the Grace Episcopal Church, 3600 Australian Avenue, Palm Beach County on March 17. The session, which will begin at 9:30 a.m., will cover consular services; the processing of Jamaican passport and citizenship applications; and the provision of information...

Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Burchell Whiteman, has said that Jamaica and the Caribbean must be part of the solution to the global economic downturn. "New economic arrangements to lift us out of the world recession must speak to the condition of countries like ours in the Caribbean. Trade and investment cannot be limited to activity among...