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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...