Agricultural practices in Jamaica are lagging a half-century behind the rest of the world, and Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) President Lenworth Fulton wants to speed up the development of the local sector. Fulton, who is in his first year as...
Farm interests have lambasted the framework of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulation Authority (JACRA) as a bureaucratic nightmare, labelling the oversight measures fiscally punitive and anti-competitive. A snippet of the heavy financial...
After failing to get its hands on the Seprod shares of members of the Coconut Industry Board (CIB), the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF) has embarked on a hostile takeover of the Banana Board. Plans are on track to...
The director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Nari Williams-Singh, has shot down any speculation about press advisories to all operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more properly known as drones, as a pre-emptive...
Seeking to bolster the confidence of Jamaican businesses eager to deepen their export footprint across the Caribbean, Prime Minister Andrew Holness urged investors to push back at perceived structural or cultural barriers to trade by regional...
The Seprod Group of Companies is mulling over the feasibility of ploughing ahead with planting of coconuts and other crops after its impending exit from sugar manufacturing when it shutters its Golden Grove, St Thomas, operations. Speaking at the...
Licence plate-recognition software that will allow law-enforcement authorities to nab delinquent motorists is to be introduced in Jamaica this year, the National Works Agency (NWA) has warned. According to the NWA’s manager of communication and...
A whopping 11,336 pounds of trash was collected from the surface of the sea yesterday during the inaugural 2019 Kingston Harbour Trash Tournament, with the top three boats accounting for 4,483 pounds worth of garbage. Mama Mia, with 1,988 pounds,...
She misses him and longs for the days when he ruled as prime minister, but she has had more than a lifetime of personal and professional memories to cherish. She is Daisy ‘Hazel’ Smith, retired auxiliary worker, and he is Edward Phillip George...
Investments in infrastructural retooling, including state-of-the-art technology, must be paired with matched spend on human resource development in order to achieve meaningful economic growth, one of the country’s top business leaders has posited....
Twelve luxury and sport fishing boats have already been confirmed for Thursday’s 2019 Kingston Harbour Trash tournament, but there are no takers for the outboard boat division, which could see the prize for the canoe with the heaviest load of trash...
A businesswoman with a passion for safeguarding the natural environment, Kerry-Ann Willis, is on a mission to get other Jamaicans just as excited about doing their part to preserving it. During Wednesday’s closing day of the Jamaica Business...
In addition to being quite a mouthful, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) would seem to be a misnomer for an agency operating in Latin America and the Caribbean and so while any confusion would be quite understandable,...
Brandon McKoy has plans to set sail from the Kingston Harbour on Labour Day, May 23, and when The Gleaner asked him about fishing expedition, the young businessman just wouldn’t stop talking trash – volumes of it. In fact, McKoy is so hooked on...
After years of suffering pounding night noises as a result of entertainment events on the grounds of the Hope Royal Botanic Gardens, home to the Hope Zoo, residents of Hope Pastures who have long complained about the failure of police to enforce...
Jamaica’s workforce education-improvement drive is poised to get a major boost following last week’s launch of the Competitiveness Institute, an online training portal that is a joint initiative of the Competitiveness Company and Velsoft, a leading...
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw has weighed in on the controversial Rooms on the Beach sale by the Urban Development Corporation, which was criticised by former Contractor General Dirk Harrison as an insulting...
Jamaica’s impressive export performance for 2018 when the country recorded a whopping 37.8 per cent increase over the previous year, the highest growth in 10 years, was dampened by the failure to stem in any substantial way the country’s heavy...
After being stalled by the Government for more than two years, the Coconut Industry Board (CIB) has been given the green light to acquire the 1,000-plus-acre Water Valley property in St Mary. The property, which will form the foundation of a...
In keeping with its commitment to transform regional trade in agriculture, Robert Kibo Thompson, founder of OUTAONE Exchange, wants Jamaican farmers to start rethinking how they market goods. He wants them to start engaging in forward contracts as...
Members of the Trelawny Cane Farmers Association are up in arms over Government’s prolonged failure to enunciate a clear plan of action for productive use of land at Long Pond Sugar Factory, whose closure has triggered economic decline in sugar...
The formal atmosphere at the 2019 Governor General’s Achievement Awards (GGAA) perked up on Thursday when Sir Patrick Allen referenced new reggae sensation Koffee as an inspiration for residents and staff of King’s House as he gave remarks at the...
When 18-year-old Shavane Romaro Clarke stepped up to collect his Governor General’s Achievement Award at yesterday’s ceremony, it was a family celebration of sorts. His mother, Andrea Minott, sister Vinesea Harvey, maternal grandmother Florence...
Public outcry about costs of the proposed Bernard Lodge city in St Catherine, as well as travel concerns and potential environmental fallout related to urban sprawl beyond the margins of Kingston, has caused Prime Minister Andrew Holness to order a...
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) has ramped up its public-awareness drive on the Save the Cockpit Country campaign with the release of a new set of public service announcements ahead of Earth Day, which was observed across the world yesterday....
