Despite the technological and other advances since 1951, the political will to make the well-needed appropriate investments in climate change adaptation and mitigation policies and strategies remains a vitally important missing link in the...
Trade expert Karl Hyatt has called for meaningful amendments to the Common External Tariff (CET) now under review to address some of the entrenched flexibility that has been abused by some CARICOM states. “CARICOM is a customs union, and the...
Medicinal cannabis dispensing machines, which operate in much the same way as traditional candy or drink-vending machines, will be available at select locations as soon as EPICAN gets the necessary approval from the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA...
Since October 2017 when the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) granted it Jamaica's first licence to cultivate commercial quantities of ganja, Environmentally Processing Inter-national Cannabis (EPICAN) has been making strides in mapping a route for...
The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) is refocusing its efforts at developing a healthy, productive regional agriculture sector to effectively counter childhood obesity and other long-term negative health outcomes....
Whatever form the National Identification System (NIDS) takes when it is finally completed, 666 will not be included in the planned random nine-digit numbering process. “The NIDS number will be random and we have made sure that there will be...
Chairman of the Infrastructure and Physical Development Committee, Mikael Phillips, was robust in defending the stewardship of Everald Warmington, regarding questions about operations of the National Works Agency (NWA) for which he has ministerial oversight, during Tuesday’s meeting.
The failure of some clients, including state entities, to pay on time has created hardships for Shalk Electronic Security Limited, which is having difficulty paying some of the guards it employs.The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that some of the guards...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes’ goal of making Jamaica’s legal system the best in the Caribbean in the next three years, and among the best in the world by 2024, has the backing of Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck, who yesterday made a...
When the Sugar Transformation Unit responded to a call for assistance to expand classroom capacity at the Barracks Road Adult Education facility in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, administrators at the Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL)...
A little over two years after his predecessor Karl Samuda assured the European Union (EU) that its $12-billion funding of the Sugar Transformation Unit (STU) was being properly managed, portfolio minister Audley Shaw is seeking answers about the...
Locally produced chicken neck has been in a pickle for the past two months, a development for which poultry market leader the Jamaica Broilers Group is taking full responsibility.When The Sunday Gleaner visited the company's processing plant in...
Welcome Beach in Clarendon is the first major local casualty of the sargassum weed infestation, and scientists are warning that the situation is not likely to get better for Jamaica."Unfortunately, we are a collecting site and some of the fishing...
"Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden ...", a quote attributed to Jamaica's first national hero Marcus Garvey, has long been a source of inspiration for poor people across the world.Having long accepted the veracity of these...
Native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America, the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is emerging as an alien invasive species...
Jamaica, having lost 308,000-hectares of farm land, is on track to continue to lose an estimated 10,000 hectares, a situation which if left unchecked will equate to 44 per cent of its total arable farm land being lost by 2030. That warning came...
The extensive renovation of the Lionel Town Health Centre in Clarendon has breathed new life into the facility located on property housing the Lionel Town Public Hospital."The structure itself has changed," public health nurse Valerie Sharpe pointed...
The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is defending its stewardship of Jamaica's fledgling medical marijuana industry despite strong criticisms from several major players in the sector.According to the CLA, its close marking of stakeholders is...
Security company KingAlarm is reporting that it has concluded in-house investigations into Monday's incident involving members of its armed response team, videos of which have gone viral on social media. KingAlarm says this included analysis of...
The Jamaica Medical Cannabis Corporation (JMMC) is investing US$2 million (J$264,000,000) into research on local ganja strains in order to ascertain with scientific accuracy their medicinal potential, over the next 10 years. Professor Errol...
Sixty years after starting operations, Lithographic Printers Limited is still a pacesetter in the printing business and its operators are planning to continue setting the pace for many years more.During a tour of its operations at 14 East Avenue,...
Chief executive officer of the Seprod Group Richard Pandohie has quit as chairman of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA).According to Pandohie, his decision was prompted by a perceived conflict of interest, given the...
The struggle to grasp basic concepts of the English language is that much harder for estimated 7,500 persons who have some form of hearing challenges. For them Jamaican sign language (JSL), the native language derived from American sign language, is...
Jamaica's efforts to provide an enabling environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to thrive are beginning to gain traction, according to Constant Lonkeng, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resident representative to Jamaica."I'm...
Forty students from two St Andrew schools had a chance to get a heads-up and a hands-down on marine ecosystems and their importance.'Wetlands for a Sustainable Urban Future' was the theme for World Wetlands Day 2018, observed on Friday, February 2,...
