Jamaica to serve on UNWTO Executive Council

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade wishes to advise that it is in active contact with authorities in the Caribbean region, with our High Commissioner in Port-of-Spain, our Consul General in Miami, our Honorary Consuls, with other formal and informal sources, and with several of our nationals, to determine the extent of the loss of lives, injury and damage caused by category 5 Hurricane Irma, which continues its passage throughout the Caribbean.

Jamaica now has an additional area code, which will necessitate the introduction of mandatory ten-digit dialling, that is, dialling using the 3-digit area code plus the seven-digit number, for all local calls in Jamaica effective 2018 May 31. The new area code is 658.

Professor Mariusz Jedrysek, Secretary of State, Chief National Geologist and Minister of Environment of the Republic of Poland ( 2^nd right) explains elements of the sample of rocks and minerals mined by Polish companies in the deep sea to Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade ( 2^nd left), Ambassador Sheila Sealy Monteith, Undersecretary Multilateral Affairs Division at the Ministry and Ms.