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Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer (right, foreground), tries her hand at using a guillotine on display at the offices of the Jamaica Archives and Records Department (JARD) in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, during her tour of the agency on June 27.The tour followed her unveiling of two Plaques of Inscription, awarded to JARD by UNESCO, for three of Jamaica’s historical collections, being maintained by JARD, which are included on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Looking on are: JARD Archives Restorer, Mekko Walker (2nd left), and other agency members of staff.
Minister with Responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer (right, foreground), tries her hand at using a guillotine on display at the offices of the Jamaica Archives and Records Department (JARD) in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, during her tour of the agency on June 27.The tour followed her unveiling of two Plaques of Inscription, awarded to JARD by UNESCO, for three of Jamaica’s historical collections, being maintained by JARD, which are included on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Looking on are: JARD Archives Restorer, Mekko Walker (2nd left), and other agency members of staff.

UNESCO Commits $36 Million to Archives and Records Department

By: Douglas McIntosh, July 1, 2013
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has committed some $36 million to enhance the operations of the Jamaica Archives and Records Department (JARD). Minister with responsibility for...
Minister of with responsibility for Information and Patron of the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, (left) is assisted by the Foundation's Vice Chairman, Kenry Jackson (right), in formally unveiling a $300,000 poultry project, initiated by the organization and situated at Braes River, St. Elizabeth, which was handed over to the beneficiary, Braes River resident, Leisha Griffiths, during a handing over ceremony at the project site on Saturday (June 29).

Senator Falconer Hands over $300,000 Poultry Project

By: Glenis A. Rose, June 30, 2013
Students of St Hilda’s Diocesan High School, in Brown’s Town, St Ann, assemble on the school’s campus with effigies of National Heroes and prominent public figures, to participate in a procession prior to the start of Friday’s (June 28) closing ceremony for the school’s Legacy Village” project, staged over the past 12 months, which formed part the school’s contribution to Jamaica’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations.

Prime Minister Commends St. Hilda’s Jamaica 50 Legacy Village Project

By: Bryan Miller, June 30, 2013

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