Every October, Jamaica honors the visionaries who fought for the island’s freedom, equality, and self-determination. National Heroes’ Day, observed on the third Monday of October, celebrates seven ...

The Hon. Dr. Edmund Bartlett, the longest-serving minister of tourism in the world, was recognized yesterday in Jamaica by his home country on National Heroes Day with the Order of Jamaica. “It’s a ...

The “Order of National Icon,” Holness noted, was a “most well-deserved and long overdue recognition of Marley and Bennett Coverley's legendary contributions” to Jamaica’s cultural heritage. He ...

Pan-African leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey, convicted of mail fraud in 1923 in the U.S., is buried at National Heroes Park in Kingston. His remains were brought to Jamaica in 1964 after his death in ...

On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, Jamaica's North Coast Times shared the news from the parish of St. Ann, the birthplace of Marcus Mosiah Garvey: U.S. President Joe Biden, ...