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For the 19th consecutive year, the Mayor of Toronto, Canada, proclaimed February 6 as Bob Marley Day. Mayor David Miller, is Toronto's fifth Mayor to have issued a proclamation in honour of the Jamaican reggae icon. On Thursday, February 5, Jamaican-born City Councillor, Michael Thompson, read the Proclamation at the annual Bob Marley Day event in Toronto held at Toronto,...

Playwright and journalist, Barbara Gloudon, has urged Jamaican nationals in Florida in the United States of America (USA), to keep their culture and heritage alive and, more importantly, not to keep it to themselves. Mrs. Gloudon said that it was necessary to do research and build archives in this regard, and to continue to share the culture and heritage with...

Executive Director of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Rohan Barnett, has said that Jamaica must use the period of the global economic slowdown to work to transform the economy and position the country on a path towards sustained growth. Mr. Barnett, who was representing Finance and Public Service Minister, Audley Shaw, at Guardian Life Insurance Limited's 'Stars Luncheon' at the...

Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Burchell Whiteman, has reprimanded the Sun Newspaper in London, England for describing the island as a "druggie paradise". In an article claiming that popular British singer Amy Winehouse plans to record a third album in Jamaica, the Sun used the derogatory terms to describe the island. Mr. Whiteman, in a release sent...

The Jamaican High Commission and the Jamaican UK Community last Friday said farewell to Deputy High Commissioner Sharon Saunders, at a special reception in London. She will be taking up duties as Jamaica's High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago later this month. Glowing tributes were paid to Mrs. Saunders, who had been Deputy High Commissioner to the UK since 2002....

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, Senator Maxine McClean, has urged Caribbean countries to increase economic co-operation to cushion the effects of the global financial collapse and economic downturn. "If there was ever a time in the history of the region when there was need for the further deepening of economic co-operation, the time is now," Senator...

Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, Anne-Marie Bonner, has expressed appreciation to Canadian media practitioners for their assistance in promoting positive news on Jamaica during 2008. "Last year was an extraordinary year for us and you helped to keep Jamaica in the headlines and keep Jamaica's image positive," said the Consul General, while addressing the journalists recently at a Media Appreciation...

Vice-President of the People's Republic of China, H.E. Xi Jinping, will pay an official visit to the island from 11th to the 14th February, 2009. The Vice-President will meet with the Governor General, His Excellency, the Most Honourable Professor Sir Kenneth Hall, Prime Minister Hon. Bruce Golding, The Leader of the Opposition, the Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, the President...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh has announced the appointment of Mrs. Sharon Saunders, Jamaica's Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, as High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean states. A career foreign service officer, Mrs. Saunders is expected to assume her responsibilities...

A former distinguished an internationally acclaimed Jamaican Diplomat Ambassador Lucille Mathurin Mair,C.D. O.J., died this morning in Kingston. She was in her 85th year and had been ailing for some time. Paying tribute to Ambassador Mair, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and ForeignTrade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh praised Ambassador Mair for her distinguished career to the field...

Working in the Foreign Service is often perceived as a career of glitz and glamour, with persons traipsing the globe and rubbing shoulders with Heads of States and Governments, attending high profile functions, and living a life that many could only dream about. But the role of a diplomat in forging ties between countries is a critical one, filled with...

Jamaicans in the Diaspora joined the millions of persons last Tuesday (Jan. 20) celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama, as the first African American President of the United States. They flocked designated venues, libraries, homes, restaurants and offices sharing the historic occasion with other citizens from around the world. Jamaican Dale Holness, Commissioner of Lauderhill, spoke of his experience with...