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The 8th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference hosted earlier this year boasted some unique features such as a Day of Service initiative which was carried out on day four of the Conference. Even more unique was the fact that some Day of Service activities were delayed to enable greater reach and impact. One such initiative was the Jamaica Diaspora Agriculture Taskforce (JDAT)...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is encouraging parents to utilize more technology-based tools as they prepare their children to sit external examinations. State Minister, Alando Terrelonge, says technology is a vehicle to increase parental involvement in the education sector, which is critical to national growth and development.

Decades before Kenyan Independence in December 1963, the words of Jamaican Marcus Garvey, were being carried throughout the country. From the river beaches of Kisumu to the forests of Nairobi, nationalists devoted themselves to the influential teachings of Garvey and other voices in the pan-Africanism movement. This would later prove crucial in the campaign for Independence from Britain. Fast-forward nearly a century...

The 8th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference Day of Service saw the roll out of some 42 projects. While the activity has been dubbed a ‘Day of Service’ by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, many of the projects carried out were far from one off occasions. One such project was a basketball clinic held at the Excelsior Community College...

The Foreign Exchange Global Code developed by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has been formally adopted in the Jamaican market. The Code’s adoption is one of several foreign exchange market reforms initiated by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) in 2017. The Foreign Exchange Global Code provides a common set of guidelines for all authorised foreign exchange trading entities for promoting the...

For the month of July, the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons undertook several activities to raise public awareness about the heinous crime of human trafficking, which mainly affects the country’s most vulnerable citizens. Manager at the Trafficking in Persons Secretariat in the Ministry of Justice, Chenee Russell, sat with JIS Studio 58A host Vaughn Davis recently to outline some...