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The establishment of a leisure park/green area, with flowers, paved walkways and seating in the Whitehouse area, has been selected as the Labour Day project for the parish of Westmoreland. This project, which is estimated to cost in excess of $500,000.00, is expected to be a model for other parishes as well as to up-lift the township, giving greater pride...

Jamaica's High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Evadne Coye, has called on Jamaicans living in Canada to continue to support the country's national airline, Air Jamaica. The High Commissioner was speaking recently at a special church service, held at the Revivaltime Tabernacle in Toronto, Canada, to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the first Air Jamaica flight - a twin-jet DC-9...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, the Hon. Audley Shaw, left Jamaica today(May 12) for London, where he will headline the list of speakers for this year's "Outlook for the Future" a series of economic forums hosted by the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) under the theme, "The Economic Imperatives for Jamaica 2009." Mr. Shaw welcomed the opportunity to...

Caricom Foreign Ministers gathered in Kingston for the 12th meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), were charged by Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding to protect the region's people by approaching international trade issues in unity and with determination. At the opening ceremony in Kingston on Friday (May 8), the Prime Minister said he had observed...

Despite a heavy schedule, the 12th meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), which ended at the Hilton Kingston Hotel today (May 9), has been hailed by CARICOM Foreign affairs Ministers as highly successful. Chairman of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, told journalists at a post-conference news briefing...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has said that a main focus of his term as chairman of CARICOM's Council for Foreign and Community Relations(COFCOR),will be the relationship between the region and North America. "It's very important for us to strengthen our ties with these big countries, these big economies, especially Canada with whom we are...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has said that CARICOM must develop a co-ordinated approach, and strengthen its existing policies, in tackling the myriad of challenges currently facing the region. Dr. Baugh was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 12th Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), at the Hilton...

Buoyed by the prospects of the dialogue, networking and experience-sharing opportunities with regional and international Local Government interests, Jamaica's delegation leaves the island on Sunday (May 10) to participate in the 4th Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) in the Bahamas. The four-day international conference is being held under the theme: 'Improving Local Government: the Commonwealth Vision'. It is being held...

The West Midlands Caribbean Parents and Friends Association in Wolverhampton is celebrating its Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years of serving the needs of people of Caribbean descent, who have settled in that part of the United Kingston (UK). One of the oldest Caribbean organisations in the UK, the Association was established in 1959 by a group of concerned individuals, many...

A Bill calling for Caribbean nationals to have their own ancestry category on the United States (US) Census Form for 2010, was recently introduced by Jamaican American Congresswoman, Yvette D. Clarke, of New York's 11th Congressional District, in the House of Representatives. The Bill calls for all questionnaires "used in the taking of any decennial census of the US population,...

Jamaica will be hosting the 12th Meeting of CARICOM's Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) on Friday and Saturday (8th to 9th May, 2009) at the Jamaica Hilton Hotel. Jamaica takes over the chair from Antigua and Barbuda. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, who will preside at the meeting,...

The second Executive Committee Meeting of the Regional Ministers and High Level Authorities of Housing and Urbanisation in Latin America and the Caribbean (MINURVI), which was scheduled for the Jamaica Conference Centre, in Downtown Kingston on May 8, 2009, has been cancelled. The move is in keeping with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that persons postpone travel...