National Tree Planting Day was first observed as part of the Forestry Department’s celebration of its 65th year of exemplary service to the island of Jamaica. On the 2003 occasion more than 200 ...

Support for the programme has come from the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica. Vice-President ... Deloris Christie, said the national tree-planting effort “is great for the children ...

However, there's one dish that reigns over oxtails, curry goat and jerk chicken as the national dish of ... Whitehall Avenue in Kingston, Jamaica, and the ackee tree in her grandmother's backyard.