Miramar, FL – The annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival presented in association with Publix will be staged at a new venue on Sunday, November 10th. The announcement was made on Wednesday, June 26th at a media reception held at the Miramar Amphitheater. Festival organizers unveiled plans for this year’s event to a group consisting of elected officials, corporate executives, community influencers and festival supporters, who were treated to an evening of culinary delights, music, and networking.  The evening was topped with a performance from reggae performer Dre Island.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands– Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness is confident that his administration will drastically reduce murders in his country, even as he acknowledged that the island has a “very complicated social construct.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Department of State says Caribbean ambassadors and diplomats here have met with a senior official of the administration of President Donald Trump to discussing ways to improve access to catastrophe insurance to support disaster recovery across the Caribbean.

NEW YORK – A Street in Brooklyn, New York has been co-named in honor the late Grenada Ambassador to the United Nations Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus.

Jamaican artist Paul Blackwood, right, explains his work to Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks, center, and fellow artist Courtney Morgan at the “Open House” exhibition which was put on display last month at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, D.C. Nearly 100 oil-on-canvas paintings and prints depictingslices of Jamaican life, from urban and rural landscapes, human forms, still life items to abstract images, were part of the exhibition.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The United States said several Caribbean countries were not in compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons (TIP).

KINGSTON, Jamaica– The Jamaica government says it is moving “rapidly” to complete the Data Protection Bill, which would provide citizens with the requisite safeguards to control their personal information online.

Lisa Bryant Smart, right, Jamaica’s acting consul general in New York, receives mementos depicting Falmouth, Jamaica from Lance Hall, director of Friends of Falmouth, after she officially launched the organization at the Jamaica Consulate in Manhattan, New York last month. The newly formed organization is aiming to encourage former residents of Falmouth to pool their resources and talents towards the improvement of their hometown.

“One Nation, One People” will be the theme for the celebration of Jamaica’s 57th anniversary of Independence in 2019.

Philadelphia-based banker Christopher Chaplin is Jamaica’s new honorary consul for Pennsylvania.

Dian Holland, left, Jamaica Tourist Board’s business development manager - west United States, accepts the award for “Destination With The Highest Client Satisfaction, Caribbean” and “International Tourism Board Providing The Best Travel Advisor Support” from Valerie Chen,digital editor at TravelAge West. The awards took place at the 2019 TravelAge West Western Agents’ Votes of Excellence (WAVE) Awards Gala last month in California.

MIAMI – Miami-Dade County Commission Chairwoman Audrey M. Edmonson on July 3 urged the public to avoid celebratory gunfire during Fourth of July celebrations, while calling on residents to work together to end the plague of gun violence.