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      N E W S   Last updated: Monday, July 2, 2007, 12:00am EST

United States President, George W. Bush, at right, poses for a photograph with Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller at the United States State Department in Washington, D.C. this morning after he met with the fifteen heads of states from the Caribbean at special meeting. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Anthony Hilton and Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Professor Gordon Shirley. The Caribbean heads are in Washington, attending the first Conference on the Caribbean which began on Monday, June 18th and ends on Thursday, June 21st

 Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller meets President George W. Bush
Monday, July 2, 2007

United States President, George W. Bush, at right, poses for a photograph with Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller at the United States State Department in Washington, D.C. this morning after he met with the fifteen heads of states from the Caribbean at special meeting. 
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Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has called on the Caribbean Diaspora to come together and form a Regional Association
Monday, July 2, 2007
Prime Minister Portion Simpson-Miller has called on the Caribbean Diaspora to come together and form a regional association. According to the Prime Minister, this body will speak in one voice as it relates to the Caribbean Diaspora residing overseas.
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Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Professor Gordon Shirley at center, shares a light moment with Veta Rowe, VP of Merle Grove High School, 2nd right, Edna Robotham, 1st left, and Joyce Taylor 2nd left. These three teachers were honored on Saturday night by the Merle Grove High Schol Past Students Association, Northeastern American Chapter, at the Unity Church hall in Gettysburg, Virginia, for contributing 106 years to Merle Grove High School. Sharing in the occasion at right is Andrea McDonald-Black, President of Merle Grove Past Student Association Northeastern American Chapter, Norma Palmer, 4th from left, and Curtis Ward, Former Jamaican Ambassador to the United Nations

Three Teachers Honored for Contributing 106 Years of Service to Merle Grove High School
Monday, July 2, 2007
Three teachers from Merle Grove High were honored for contributing just over one hundred and six years to the teaching profession.   Those honored are current Vice Principal Veta Rowe for 26 years service, Enid Robotham, retired teacher of 37 years, and Joyce Taylor, retired teacher of 43 years of service.
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CARICOM Foreign Ministers and
US Secretary of State		 saxda Speaker of the US House and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anthony Hylton
Monday, July 2, 2007 Monday, July 2, 2007

To encourage Bostonians to get their passports, the JTB hosted another in its on-going series of 'Jamaica Morning Coffee Break', at the South Station Train Terminal, Boston, on Tuesday, January 23, from 7:00am to 10:00am.

 CARICOM Foreign Ministers and US Secretary of State Conoleeza Rice, taken after a meeting at the US State Department on Monday 18th June, 2007.
[FULL STORY]		 Dr. Jimmy Cliff receive the Bob Marley Award from Prof. Rex Nettleford and Dr. Karl B. Rodney after he was honored at the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies 10th Annual "The Legacy Continues" Awards Dinner which took place on Monday, January, 22 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, at center, shares a light moment with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Anthony Hylton, at right, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, at left and Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Professor Gordon Shirley..
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