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Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking and corruption in Jamaica while reducing violent crime.

The Office of the Prime Minister says preparations are well underway for next month's visit of Prince Henry of Wales, also known as Prince Harry.

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We've traded God Save the Queen for O Canada as our national anthem and our Constitution has evolved significantly.

Yoga instructor Sharon Feanny conducts an exercise class with musical accompaniment by Nyahbingi musicians during the Caribbean Yoga Conference, held at the Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego Bay last Friday.

After sizing up the crowd at Emancipation Park, New Kingston, on Sunday night for Bob Marley's 67th birthday concert, Ibo Cooper made an appeal for the creation of a space where people can be accommodated to listen to music.

Mayer Michael Matalon's grandchildren carry the coffin containing his body after the service of thanksgiving at the Sha'are Shalom Synagogue on Duke Street in downtown Kingston yesterday.

As Caribbean nationals around Washington prepare to celebrate their joint anniversaries, they joined the diaspora around the world in praise of the opening showcase, the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, held last Thursday through Saturday in Trelawney Jamaica.

The Mission Catwalk reality series has expanded its reach and returns to television for a second season with contestants from several Caribbean countries.

The Government is moving to iron out the kinks in the flow of visitors and locals through the island's international airports, says Minister of Tourism and Entertainment Dr Wykeham McNeill.

All the latest news, photos and more from the events and celebrations of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 February 6, is usually a time of quiet reflection when she honours George VI, the father she loved with all her heart and who died on that day thrusting her onto the world stage.

Norris Maxwell signs during a conversation at his adoptive mother's home in Cave Spring, January 31, 2012.

More than 30 years after his untimely passing, Bob Marley's influence remains as indelible as ever.

"When she said Dwight just died, I thought I was going through the floor," Myers told Flair in an exclusive interview last Friday at friends Percy and Murine Clarke's home, in the quiet Coral Gardens community in Montego Bay.

Mission Catwalk participants 2011 Shellane McFarlane, Gregory Williams, Janelle Forde, Rebecca Stirm, Janel Jolly, Kerin Scott, Crystal Powell, Maria King-Beadle, Shannon Kwong, Kimbally Smith.

The Private Sector Association of Jamaica has paid tribute to the late Mayer Matalon OJ, prominent businessman, who died on Friday.

Veteran reggae singer Coco Tea took the resort town of Negril by storm on Saturday night, dazzling patrons at the 20th Bob Marley Birthday Bash with a brilliant performance, which left the appreciative patrons at the scenic MXIII Lawn consumed with musical satisfaction.

FOREIGN MINISTER A.J. Nicholson has said Jamaica and the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago should mark their jubilee year by taking steps to break away from the United Kingdom-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

JAMAICANS will have an opportunity to view the body of the late Ambassador Dudley Thompson today and tomorrow at the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, 1 George Headley Drive, Kingston.

A large crowd of job seekers queue at the St Johns Ambulance headquarters at Camp Road, St Andrew, on December 8. They were responding to a newspaper advertisement by the Jamaica Fire Brigade.