BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - FOR the next two days, stakeholders from the region gathered at a high-level meeting in Kingston will discuss a range of issues common to the Caribbean, including sustainable energy, social policy, macroeconomics and trade, climate change, and natural resource protection with a view to making the region's voice be heard at the global level.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Representatives of several Caribbean countries will meet here on Tuesday as they seek to ensure that the concerns of the region are articulated at the 2014 Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Samoa next September.
The three-day meeting here will determine common concerns, exchange experiences and lessons learned, and discuss regional perspectives and positions for the Samoa conference.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it will provide technical assistance to Burkina Faso in preventing adolescent pregnancies and supporting adolescent mothers. Information Minister Sandrea Falconer made the disclosure following a study tour of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation as part of the activities of the Working Mission from Burkina Faso, led by the First Lady of the West African country, Chantal Compaoré. Falconer said the modalities of bi-lateral agreement are being worked out and that additional discussions will commence at a later date.
KINGSTON, Jamaica -Describing it as the most far-reaching piece of public health policy undertaken in recent times, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has announced that as of July 15, no smoking will be permitted in public spaces across Jamaica.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - PREMIER Rufus Ewing of the Turks and Caicos Islands yesterday responded to the Jamaica Observer’s June 21, 2013 editorial which criticised the British Overseas Territory for its treatment of Beaches resorts and Jamaicans generally. Ewing acknowledged the vast contribution of Beaches to the island’s economy but suggested the Government was batting for more jobs for locals.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE current trade concerns, discussed by Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, represent the growing pains within the regional trading environment after 40 years of endeavour and investment intended to arrive eventually at a viable common economic and cultural space. We will then be able to develop strategies to promote further regional advancement, while confronting the convolution born of the world recession.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE global economy is traversed by a network of constantly shifting economic/trade blocs, of which the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been the second-longest running economic integration scheme, at 40 years old, counting from the 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas.
Only the European Union (EU) has been around longer, having begun as an integration project with six countries in 1958, now grown to 27 member states.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The First Lady of Burkina Faso, Chantal Compaoré is scheduled to arrive here on Monday as part of a delegation from the West African country.
The purpose of the mission is to learn about Jamaica’s experience in preventing adolescent pregnancies and supporting adolescent mothers.
Compaoré will be accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Women Promotion and Gender in her country.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA'S law-enforcement agencies should feel a sense of achievement with news of the country's removal from the United States' State Department trafficking in persons Tier 2 watch list.
National Security Minister Peter Bunting shared the news with the nation during his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in Parliament last Wednesday.
According to Minister Bunting, the Trafficking in Persons Bill will increase the penalty for the offence, and new provisions for offences like trafficking and other related matters should be debated and passed soon.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - HUNDREDS of Christians staged two mass meetings at opposite ends of the island yesterday in protest against a challenge to the buggery law scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court tomorrow. The protest in Kingston, the capital city, was held at National Heroes Park, while in Montego Bay, on the island’s north coast, the demonstrators gathered in Sam Sharpe Square, named in honour of the Jamaican National Hero who led a rebellion against slavery in 1831.