Jamaica News

The Right Honourable Portia Simpson-Miller has been elected as the president of Jamaica's ruling People's National Party (PNP) and has now succeeding PJ Paterson as the Prime Minister of Jamaica. (more…)

Jamaica put in it's best performance every at the 2006 Commonwealth games to walk away with 22 medals which placed Jamaica 7th overall out of 71 nations when ranked by number of gold medals and 9th when ranked by total medals. (more…)

Portia Simpson-Miller has been elected as the president of Jamaica's ruling People's National Party (PNP) and will in a few weeks be the first female Prime Minister of Jamaica as the current prime minister PJ Patterson leaves office after over ten years at the helm of the PNP. (more…)

The entrants for Jamaica's title of Sports Man and Woman of the year was a competitive as usual in 2005 when Jamaica's top sporting men and women gathered at the Island Cinema in New Kingston to hear the winner of the prestigious title in 2005. (more…)

Thirty Cubans have been assigned to Jamaica to help with the distribution of 30,000 energy saving fluorescent bulbs donated by the Republic of Cuba to help the Jamaican government suppress the country's growing energy bill. (more…)

Crickets most important event and one of the largest sporting events in the world is less than a year away from being staged in the Caribbean region. This is no easy undertaking and the region, under the tutelage of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has been preparing the region for this important event. So far the WICB reports that all things are in order and on course for the event and has reported that they have been busy with various tasks such as gathering information from the previous hosts of the event, sorting out reports submitted from each of the islands that will host matches as well as sorting out advertising and branding contracts. (more…)

Damian "Junior Gong" Marley was in a celebratory mood when seen just hours after winning the award for best reggae album at the 48th annual Grammy Awards. His winning album, Welcome to Jamrock is a Tuff Gong/Universal Music compilation that follows along his usual conscious path while highlighting issues being faced by the poor in Jamaica. Junior Gong is no stranger to grammy nominations or winning as he won the same grammy in 2002 for his Motown released half Way Tree. (more…)