The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) has extended the deadline for entries to the 2013 Heritage Essay Competition. Students now have until midnight on Thursday, October 31, to submit their entries,...

Jamaica has emerged the winner of a regional radio song contest from among 14 countries, highlighting messages of combating HIV/AIDs infection and stigma across the Caribbean. Dubbed, ‘LIVE UP I...

For Special Corporal Jermaine Burgher, the courage to fight for his life on the terrifying afternoon of June 15, 2012, came from thinking about his young daughter, Alyssa. On that...

Scores of students from primary schools in Kingston participated in a ceremony at National Heroes Park on October 21, where flowers were laid at the shrines of the National Heroes...

Seven ‘unsung heroes’ in the parish of St. James, who have given outstanding service to their parish and communities, were recognized on Heroes Day (October 21), by the St. James...

Major (Ret’d) Johanna Lewin,daughter of late musicologist Dr. the Hon. Olive Lewin, OJ, CD is expressing gratitude to the Government and people of Jamaica for recognising her mother with the...

“I don’t do things like this for any reward yuh nuh. It’s just from the goodness of mi heart. A suh di t’ing set man.” ​This is the sentiment of...

Tributes continue to flow for late former Deputy Prime Minister, Ambassador Seymour Mullings, O.J. The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, D.C., on October 17,...