IT seems fitting that one criterion for any Jamaican to be honoured as National Hero is death, since heroes sometimes become "zeros" through the tests of time. However, many heroes continue to ...

It was a stirring salute to our National Heroes - Sir Vere C Bird Sr, King Court Tacky, Dame Nellie Robinson, Sir George Walter, Sir Lester Bird, an ...

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 ...

During President Barack Obama’s historic 2015 visit to Jamaica, where he laid a wreath at the war memorial inside the National Heroes Park in Kingston but did not stop at Garvey’s grave, Obama ...

For example, in Jamaica, it stands at the pinnacle: first in the order of precedence among the Orders of six Societies of Honour, namely: The Order of National Hero, the Nation, of Excellence, of ...

Today’s Jamaica reveres its Maroon history. Among the seven figures designated as “National Heroes” by the government, the only woman is Nanny, who also appears on the country’s $500 banknote.