Jamaica News Bulletin

Blow away the January blues with a trip to Jamaica for the 17th anniversary of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, taking place at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium in Montego Bay from the 24 – 26 January 2013.

The annual festival is the premier music event in the Caribbean and this year will see nine-time Grammy Award Winning artists Mary J Blige and John Legend headline the event. Michael Bolton, also a Grammy Award winning artist, will be returning to the festival performing hits such as When a Man Loves a Woman. This year will also see one of Jamaica’s most popular bands, Roots Underground, take to the stage once again and the reggae band, Third World Band, celebrates their 40th anniversary with a performance on the 24 January.

The winner of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Schools’ Essay Competition is upper sixth form student of Munro College, St. Elizabeth, Raheem Smith.

Upper sixth form student of Clarendon College, Kameesha Beecher, copped second place winner, while Shavine Briscoe, a student of Cornwall College, Montego Bay, placed third.

At a prize-giving ceremony held on Friday, December 14 at the offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in New Kingston, Mr. Smith expressed the view that the Convention should be included in the schools’ curriculum.

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller celebrated the commencement of the 2012/2013 Winter Tourist Season at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James, with the official welcoming of the first visitors to Jamaica, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew and Chelsea Derby from Fort Lauderdale, USA.

They were among approximately 400 visitors on the first of a number of flights that were scheduled to take an estimated 5,000 visitors to Jamaica on the first day of what is expected to be a “bumper” winter tourist season.

Students from the National Centre for Youth Development are in a happy mood as they receive a cheque donation from Dolphin Cove Limited who sponsored The Hanover Youth Skills Expo and Art Fair 2012 held at the Dolphin Cove Negril Park on November 24, 2012.