The Registrar General's Department (RGD) held an outreach activity in Florida on September 24 and 25, at the invitation of the Jamaican Consulate General. The event was entitled 'Diaspora Outreach...

The internationally acclaimed Jamaican piano player, Orrett Rhoden, is set to delight residents in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, when he performs at the John F. Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre,...

The Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, met with a number of potential investors at the Hilton Hotel in New York on Friday September 24. During the meeting, he outlined...

The Government, through the Ministry of Education, has forwarded a submission to their Chinese counterparts, seeking grant funds amounting to approximately US $7 million, to build 17 additional early childhood...

An Atlanta-based corporation, Purpose Built Communities, wants to lend its expertise to the Jamaican Government in redeveloping blighted areas of downtown Kingston. The redevelopment would be modelled on the successful...

The World Bank has commended the Government's efforts to overcome the global recession and stabilise the economy, noting that the country must now look towards growth and development. "Now that...

Jamaica's Consul General in Miami, Sandra Grant Griffiths, has commended the newly formed Coalition of Jamaican Alumni Associations in South Florida, as signal of acceptance of the need to become...

Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks, has lauded the Atlanta-Montego Bay Sister Cities Foundation for its more than 17 years of health missions to Montego Bay....

State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte, says that civil society has an important role to play in advancing the process of integration...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding left the island on September 21 for New York to attend the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly and other high level meetings. He...

A plan to create a lasting legacy from Jamaica's participation in the 2012 Olympic Games has been set in train. Leader of Birmingham City Council, Councillor Mike Whitby has pledged...