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The fourth annual African American-Caribbean Heritage Festival will be celebrated throughout the month of May in Miami. This festival is spearheaded by the communities of Liberty City and Brownsville, which comprise largely African-Americans, immigrants from Bahamas, Haiti and Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. In an effort to bridge the cultural gap among the various ethnic groups, several activities have been...

Chairman of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo.), Audrey Marks-Dunstan, has encouraged players in the industry to work hard to improve the local product, particularly those doing business along the country's unspoilt south coast. "On the drive down here to St. Elizabeth, I could not help but reflect on the natural wealth that we as a people possess. I saw...

Some 20 Labour Day projects have already been registered in St. Ann, as the Labour Day Parish Committee plans for the activities on Monday, May 24, under the theme: 'Road Safety First: Avoid the Worst'. The events include, a public education programme at the St. Ann's Bay car park; bushing and cleaning road signs; erecting road signs; repairing and constructing...

The fourth annual African American-Caribbean Heritage Festival will be celebrated throughout the month of May in Miami. This festival is spearheaded by the communities of Liberty City and Brownsville, which comprise largely African-Americans, immigrants from Bahamas, Haiti and Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. In an effort to bridge the cultural gap among the various ethnic groups, several activities have been...

Chairman of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo.), Audrey Marks-Dunstan, has encouraged players in the industry to work hard to improve the local product, particularly those doing business along the country's unspoilt south coast. "On the drive down here to St. Elizabeth, I could not help but reflect on the natural wealth that we as a people possess. I saw...

A contract for the construction of a building to house the George Cohen Basic School in Port Antonio, Portland, was signed on April 28 by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The project, which is sponsored by the George Cohen Basic School Parent Teachers' Association (PTA), will cost about $7. 3 million. Direct beneficiaries of the project will be the...

As part of the strategy to identify roads in the city where traffic is dense and widen them to facilitate ease of movement, the National Works Agency (NWA), is carrying out expansion work on Old Hope and Half-Way-Tree Roads under the Road Maintenance Fund. A statement from the Ministry of Transport and Works has said that the road widening/traffic management...

A contract for the construction of a building to house the George Cohen Basic School in Port Antonio, Portland, was signed on April 28 by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The project, which is sponsored by the George Cohen Basic School Parent Teachers' Association (PTA), will cost about $7. 3 million. Direct beneficiaries of the project will be the...

As part of the strategy to identify roads in the city where traffic is dense and widen them to facilitate ease of movement, the National Works Agency (NWA), is carrying out expansion work on Old Hope and Half-Way-Tree Roads under the Road Maintenance Fund. A statement from the Ministry of Transport and Works has said that the road widening/traffic management...

Representatives of the international financial community have praised Jamaica for its economic openness, and have recognized the country's efforts to reduce regulatory impediments to foreign investment. This came out of a successful investment briefing in Washington D.C., on April 29, which also provided participants with a comprehensive overview of the Jamaican economy and highlighted current activity in key productive sectors...

Representatives of the international financial community have praised Jamaica for its economic openness, and have recognized the country's efforts to reduce regulatory impediments to foreign investment. This came out of a successful investment briefing in Washington D.C., on April 29, which also provided participants with a comprehensive overview of the Jamaican economy and highlighted current activity in key productive sectors...

Minister of Information, Senator Burchell Whiteman on Tuesday (March 30) officially launched a new entrant to the local media landscape at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The company, Caribbean Internet Broadcast Network (CIBN), is an electronic network of radio and television stations that are totally Internet-based. CIBN seeks to deliver streaming radio and television to a global audience and...