Minutes after the swearing in of 30 foreign nationals as Jamaican citizens at the Police Officers' Club on Hope Road in St Andrew, Nigerian-born Oluwafunke Bayesha was celebrating her new status, having lived here for nine years."This right here...
Manager Anjeli Williams is confident that the Portland Bight Discovery Centre at Salt Pond, Clarendon - slated to be officially opened in September - will develop into a major eco-tourism hub. This is in keeping with the centre's mandate to raise...
Investments do not necessarily automatically translate into or contribute to economic growth unless there is significant value added, Prime Minister Andrew Holness explained during his keynote address at the 66th staging of the Denbigh Agricultural...
Agriculture minister in the Cayman Islands Juliana O'Connor-Connolly says her country has adopted Jamaica's mantra of 'eat what you grow, grow what you eat'.Speaking to The Gleaner on Saturday at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show in...
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has warned against complacency in light of any economic gains and has called for unity to achieve sustained growth and development."Although we may be doing well in terms of our economic indicators, we still remain...
The final two-kilometre-drive to get there can be testing to navigate, given the poor road conditions - either a rough and dusty roadway or water-laden potholes - but Jacob's Ladder provides a refreshing example of...
Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton made it clear yesterday that Jamaica's efforts to tap into the multibillion-dollar global medicinal marijuana industry would continue to be guided by public health concerns taking precedence over potentially...
The Victoria Mutual Group copped six of seven sectionals awards en route to sweeping the Large Business Category at Tuesday's Service Excellence Awards 2018 hosted by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel,...
Howard Mitchell, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), has called on political leaders to obey a higher moral and legal code of governance as an example for citizens to follow. Without this paradigm shift, he argued, no...
"Hunt them!" is advice the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is expected to give to game bird hunters who encounter the white-tailed deer during the 2018 season which gets underway on Saturday, August 18 and runs until Sunday,...
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw has promised more funding for the cash-starved Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) in order to ramp up the pace of operations.He told The Gleaner recently that there was a...
An estimated 38,000 Jamaican youth between the ages of five and 17 years old are involved in child labour, and 26,000 work in hazardous conditions, as defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO).These are some of the findings contained in...
Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has advised Jamaicans to take their business elsewhere if commercial banks fail to follow the lead of the central bank in reducing their interest rates."Medium-sized and small businesses need to demand of their...
The influx of brown seaweed known as sargassum, which has been affecting beaches along Jamaica's north and south coasts, is projected to continue to affect the island's shorelinebut poses no threat to human life or the environment, the National...
Professor Errol Morrison, director general of the National Commission on Science and Technology, has lamented the unwillingness of Jamaican investors to support local research and science, even where there was ample proof that just a little more...
Everton Hansen is out as director general of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority.The Gleaner understands that the decision was announced during an emergency board meeting at the authority's office, 1 Willie Henry Drive, off...
President of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) O'Neil Grant has warned of major trouble on the industrial scene if more is not done to protect the rights of workers.In his president's address to the 99th annual general meeting of the JCSA...
Jamaica's growing obesity problem comes under the microscope during this year's Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) symposium, which will run from Sunday, June 3, to Sunday, June 10.'Obesity: Do we even have a slim chance?' is the theme for the...
The Jamaica Business Developing Corporation (JBDC) is well aware of the inherent difficulties of the value-chain system, requiring as it does the same high level of input from each contributor along every step of the chain.Though cognisant of the...
Jamaicans should continue to track developments and brace for fallout from Tuesday's announcement by United States President Donald Trump that he intends to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord, Leonard Green, past president of the Jamaica Gasolene...
The Government's much-touted Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), the umbrella organisation under which all former crop commodity services, with the exception of banana, are being subsumed, has no chance of working,...
After finally getting the green light to acquire the 1,000-acre Water Valley property in St Mary, the Coconut Industry Board (CIB) now finds itself saddled with two non-performing assets in the parish which the Government has failed to offload after...
Anticipation is high ahead of today's annual general meeting (AGM) of the Coconut Industry Board (CIB) at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston where Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw is expected to...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday gave the assurance that his administration has the solution to Jamaica's long-standing and growing squatter problem, which it is on track to resolving once and for all.The provision of affordable housing...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday lamented the level of inefficiency in the public sector and appealed for bipartisan support in tackling its long-overdue reform...
