jamarchMy Fellow Jamaicans: This year, we celebrate the 170th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. With freedom came the end of an era when hundreds of thousands – no, millions – of persons who inhabited Jamaica, the Caribbean and the...
NEW YORK, JULY 26, 2004 (JIS) One of the United States’ most well known landmarks, the Empire State Building in New York City, will be lit in the colours of the Jamaican flag August 6-8, 2004 in honour of Jamaica’s 42nd year of Independence. The...
The observance of the National Day of a country remains always an occasion for the display of national pride and patriotism by all its citizens. On this occasion of Jamaica’s Forty-Second Anniversary of Independence, I take great pleasure in...
In an effort to educate and inform South Florida’s rapidly growing Caribbean-American population about upcoming elections for various offices in Miami-Dade and Broward counties on August 31, as well as the Presidential race in November, radio...
JIS Washington (July 9, 2004) Professor Gordon Shirley, former head of the Mona School of Business at the University of the West Indies, assumed office on Wednesday (July 7) as Jamaica’s new Ambassador to the United States (US) as well as the...
STATEMENT MADE IN GRENADA BY PRIME MINISTER P.J. PATTERSON, ON, PC, QC, MP ON THE PASSING OF THE MOST HON. HUGH LAWSON SHEARER FORMER PRIME MINSITER OF JAMAICA JULY 5, 2004 I have been deeply saddened by the news of the passing of...
The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) goes on the road in 2004 with the assistance of the Foreign Service Offices throughout North America, and with the cooperation of Jamaican Associations and related Organizations. Not only have the Jamaican...
Jamaican Caves Organizationwww.jamaicancaves.org THE JUNE 2004 EXPEDITION (Jun 21/04)Cavers Stewart, Conolley, Bellinger, Roggy, Taylor, Slack, Hyde, Stirling, Peterson, and Timmons, have recently completed a two-week expedition that was engaged in...
media release for immediate release THE OTHER SIDE OF TOURISM is a non-fiction book written by visual artist, poet and writer Myrna Loy which illustrates the effect of being born in the UK of dual-heritage where Myrna has tried to embrace the...
Jamaican Caves Organizationwww.jamaicancaves.org (JCO – May 30, 2004). The next full expedition of the Jamaican Caves Organization will take place from June 6 to June 18, 2004, inclusive. The main team will be comprised of R. S. Stewart, I. C...
