The late former Prime Minister, Michael Manley, was formally accorded his place in the pantheon of the world's foremost civil rights champions, after he was inducted posthumously into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, January 12, 2008.

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In an effort to create more job opportunities for the Jamaican Agricultural and Hospitality programs in the US, the Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pernell Charles, has enlisted the assistance of the Embassy of Jamaica, the Jamaica Consul Generals and Honourary Consuls to the United States to identify areas where Jamaican workers with skills in farming, hospitality and other viable fields can be employed.

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The Organization of American States (OAS) and the University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWIOC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to help educators in the English-speaking Caribbean to promote democratic values and practices in their classrooms, schools and communities.

Under the agreement—signed concurrently at the OAS in Washington DC and at the UWI Mona Campus in Jamaica—a sustainable distance education course will be developed to implement the program.  Course content will be informed by the principles embodied in the Inter-American Democratic Charter, to which Caribbean Member States are signatories.

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Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, has enlisted the assistance of the missions in the United States (US), as the Government seeks to identify more job opportunities for Jamaicans under the US Overseas Employment Programme.

Minister Charles told representatives of the Jamaican Embassy, Consul Generals, and Honorary Consuls, who attended a meeting on Saturday (Jan. 26) at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, that there were enormous congressional and business contacts that they could tap into to unearth a wealth of new job opportunities for hundreds of Jamaicans, in areas such as farming and hospitality.

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