CONSUL GENERAL BROWN METZGER SALUTES CARIBBEAN CULTURE AT CSA DINNER
NEW YORK (JIS) Friday, May 01, 2009 – “I’m actually nervous,” said Jamaica’s Consul General Geneive Brown Metzger as she started her speech at Thursday night’s Caribbean Students Association’s (CSA) Alumni Dinner at City College. Mrs. Brown Metzger explained that while she was used to addressing stodgy 50-somethings, being in front of a roomful of [...]
Read moreJAMAICAN ATHLETES TO BE FETED AT PENN RELAYS 2009 THIS WEEKEND
NEW YORK (JIS) Monday, April 20, 2009 – Directors of Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB) say they are ready to roll out the red carpet for the full contingent of athletes, coaches and other officials attending the 115th staging of the Penn Relays Carnival in Track & Field Athletics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this weekend.
Read moreUS SENATOR CHRIS DODD PLEDGES HELP FOR CARIBBEAN REGION
NEW YORK (JIS) Thursday, March 26, 2009 – US Senator Christopher Dodd says his office stands ready to assist the promotion and development of investment and trade initiatives between the US and the Caribbean region, in whatever way possible.
Responding to a range of questions and concerns at a recent meeting with members of the New [...]
Hear, hear, Mr Nelson
There is nothing diplomatic about the recent brouhaha over the non-return or late return of diplomatic passports issued to officials from the previous People’s National Party (PNP) Government.
Read moreCONSTITUTIONAL ABSURDITIES
THE GLEANER – We agree with Justice Seymour Panton about the incongruity – absurdity even – of a citizen of a Commonwealth country being eligible to sit in the Jamaican Parliament, while a Jamaican who is a citizen of a non-Commonwealth state is barred.
The former, as was implicitly confirmed by the Court of Appeal in [...]
