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List of Jamaican Diaspora Advisory Board Members |
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The objective of the Diaspora Advisory Board is to advise the Minister with responsibility for the Jamaicans overseas community on matters relating to that community. Members will interface with community groups with a view to consolidating and advocating interests or concerns. The Board will meet on a half-yearly basis.
The 2008 Advisory Board which will serve until the next conference in 2010 comprises:
UNITED KINGDOM
Celia Grandison-Markey
43B High Street, Sharington
Newport Pagnell Bucks, MK169 WU
Office: c/o Jamaican High Commision
1-2 Prince Consort Road
London, SW7 2BZ
Email: cim@btinternet.com
Tele: 07976 968211 (cell)
01908 613776 (office)
Derek Douglas
50 Westminister Road Handsworth
Birmingham B20 3LJ
Tele: 0121 515 4992 (day)
07968064081
Email: Derek@dgd1@fsnet.co.uk"
CANADA
Ms. Sharon Abrahams
Attorney-at-Law
67 Oatland Crescent
Richmond Hill
Ontario L4C 9P2
Canada
Tel (905) 770 2131
Email:sabrahams@rogers.com
Claudette Cameron-Stewart
17 Faywood Drive, Brampton, ON
L6Y 4K2
Email: Bogwalk1@yahoo.com
Tele: 905-454-4219
657-278-8946
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
North East
Patrick Beckford
22 Heinrich Road
Somerset NJ 08873
Email: pbeckf01@yahoo.com
pbeckford@fotaus.org
Tele: (732)296-1890
(732)801-6747
West/Mid West
Wayland Richards
6701 80th Ave N
Brooklyn Pk Mn 55445
Tele: 763-503-0869
612-508-9813
Email: osdj@aol.com
Southern
Marlon Hill, Esq.
Jamaican Diaspora Southern United States
Tel: (786) 349-2584 or (876) 621-0102
Fax: (786) 551-0785
Email: info@marlonhill.com
Business
Delancy Hill
Wachovia Financial Centre
200 S. Biscayne Boulevard Suite
2750 Miami, Fl 33131
Tel (786) 777-0184;
Fax (786) 777-0174
Email: mhill@delancyhill.com
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Diaspora and Consular Affairs Department
The objective of the Diaspora and Consular Affairs Department is to strengthen the linkages with the Jamaican Diaspora and to encourage and foster the participation of Jamaicans overseas in all aspects of national development. In this regard, the Department has the mandate to:
- Operate as an information centre and contact point for Jamaican communities abroad.
- Encourage and mobilize Jamaicans abroad to assist in the development of their homeland.
- Support the interests of Jamaican communities overseas through political action and economic activity.
- Facilitate the provision of trade-related assistance
- Ensure the creation of appropriate and conducive conditions of the return of interested overseas Jamaicans
- Increase the human resource potential available to Jamaica through skills and attributes of returned nationals.
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First & Second Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference- The First Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference was held 16th -17th June 2004, under the theme, “The Jamaican Diaspora: Unleashing the Potential”.
The primary objectives of the Conference were: - To place on record the country’s appreciation for the contribution made by Jamaicans residing abroad to national development;
- To use the occasion as an opportunity to involve Jamaicans overseas more comprehensively in the economic, social, political and cultural;
- To develop the necessary structures to strengthen the relationship between the two groups.
- Two hundred and fifty (250) delegates attended the Conference.
- The Second Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference was convened 15th-16th June 2006 under the theme, The Jamaican Diaspora: Unleashing the Potential”.
- Four hundred (400) overseas representatives mainly from Canada, United Kingdom and The United States attended the Conference. The Diaspora in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean was also represented.
- The Conference addressed a number of issues germane to the role of the Diaspora in national development, including the Crime Situation, Mobilizing the Diaspora, Forging Business Linkages, Globalization and the Diaspora and Culture and Tourism.
- The Conference endorsed a number of recommendations on a wide range of issues such as education, disaster preparedness and management, establishment of a database of Jamaican professionals in the Diaspora, and economic development.
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