Dancehall giants Bounty Killer & Ninja Man will headline the first annual Western Bembe Invasion which is slated to take place on Saturday July 5th 2008, at the Rickie’s Motors car park in Negril Spot Westmoreland. This event is the first of it kind to be held anywhere in western Jamaica.

Frustrated with life in colonial Jamaica, he took up an offer for a trial to play county cricket with Northampton. Arriving in Manchester in 1959, he instead chose a career that leads him to become the first black mayor of Trafford and an audience with the Queen.

Jamaicans in the Diaspora were hailed by Earl Jarrett, Chairman of the National Diaspora Committee as “a mighty force” in the country’s development, leading to the fostering of everlasting relationships. The island comparatively boasts one of the world’s largest Diaspora Communities, with some 2.6 Million people living overseas.

The Ministry of Health’s vector control programme in the Corporate Area has been intensified in the wake of a sporadic case of the mosquito-borne disease malaria.