UNESCO considering whether to put Reggae Music on its Intangible Cultural Heritage List
KINGSTON - The Jamaica Government will know next month whether it has been successful in its efforts to have reggae music inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) More...
Jamaica and Russia sign visa waiver agreement
KINGSTON - Jamaica and Russia have signed a reciprocal agreement to waive the visa requirement for travel to their respective countries. The agreement will allow mutual visits of citizens of Jamaica and Russia More...
Sky High also flies to Kingston
WILLEMSTAD - Sky High will fly via Jamaica to Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic starting this week. The Dominican airline has been flying directly to Curaçao for two months, but now adds a stopover in Kingston. The More...
Jamaica and United States sign MoU to combat child trafficking
KINGSTON - The Governments of Jamaica and the United States of America yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership, which is aimed at combating the trafficking More...
CARICOM countries urged to collaborate more to fight crime
KINGSTON - Jamaica’s Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security Rudyard Spencer has called on members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to collaborate more in the fight against corruption at ports More...
Jamaica moving ahead with attempt to buy back Venezuela’s shares in petroleum refinery
KINGSTON - A team from Venezuela is expected to visit Jamaica to continue discussions on the proposal for Jamaica to repurchase the Spanish-speaking nation’s 49 per cent shareholding in Petrojam Limited. Venezuela More...
Tourism interests urged to invest in agriculture
KINGSTON - Chairman of the Tourism Linkages Council in Jamaica, Adam Stewart, is calling on hoteliers and other tourism interests, to invest in the local agriculture sector, noting that this is a surefire way of More...
Jamaica may have found oil, but it needs investors to dig into discovery
KINGSTON - Jamaica could be sitting on oil. Two independent live oil seeps have been discovered in different parts of the island – the first documented occurrence of ‘live’, or flowing, oil from onshore More...
IDB President says Jamaica on track to becoming Caribbean’s First Digital Society
KINGSTON -The head of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB) believes Jamaica will become the region’s first digital society. Luis Alberto Moreno expressed that view as the Jamaica Government took strategic More...
Jamaica calls for democracy to return to Venezuela
KINGSTON - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his Government is concerned about the political and economic crisis in Venezuela, and wants to see citizens of that Spanish-speaking nation again enjoying their democracy. “This More...
