WESTERN BUREAU:Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Audley Shaw is urging local and foreign investors to launch out into what he has described as the "blue economy" and invest in canned tuna for the export market, which he said is valued at...
WESTERN BUREAU:Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that the strong 7.3 earthquake that rocked Venezuela and several Caribbean countries on Tuesday has driven home the urgent need to establish a global resilience centre in the region to mitigate...
WESTERN BUREAU:Veteran journalist and publisher Lloyd B. Smith is predicting "bangarang" in St James if the Government lifts the ongoing state of public emergency without first treating the mental state of citizens in the parish."The day that the...
Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett says the Old Fort Craft Market in Montego Bay, St James, is to be developed into an artisan village, making it the second such facility geared towards providing a holistic Jamaican experience for cruise passengers."The...
Western Bureau:Winston Lawson, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says that the condition at the Western Regional Office of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is far from ideal for senior citizens, and he has called for...
Western Bureau:Ornell Bedasse, the chief executive officer at Gateway Co-operative Credit Union, says the credit union has provided $7 million worth of scholarships and bursaries to 375 students from the county of Cornwall for the last 25 years.He...
Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Leith Dunn, has called for the transportation sector to partner with the Government to combat human trafficking, which she says is a major issue...
Western Bureau:Professor Verene Shepherd, chairperson of the National Commission on Reparation, has blamed the country's political forefathers for the struggles reparation advocates are now facing."We did not negotiate the reparation package at the...
