Jamaica has received grant funding of US$6.8 million to be used for improving the quality and use of climate-related information, which will inform effective development planning and action at the local and national levels in order to reduce the...
Her early intellectual upbringing, which started on the plains of Vere in Southern Clarendon, triggered a hunger for learning about things Jamaican which would eventually lead to a lifetime of work for which she is credited with rescuing Jamaican...
Jamaica is to benefit from a US$20-million pilot climate-change adaptation programme to be funded mainly by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will be implemented by the Ministry of Land, Water, Environment and Climate Change, working...
THERE WERE early signs that directors of the board of the National People's Co-operative (PC) Bank were operating as a law unto themselves and defying repeated efforts by the Agricultural Credit Board (ACB) to rein in their misuse of millions of...
National Security Minister Peter Bunting yesterday made a case for the expansion of social-intervention programmes as a critical component of the fight against crime, arguing that the gains from empowering at-risk youth through training and...
Jamaicans now have access to affordable loan financing to invest in climate-smart agricultural and climate-change mitigation solutions, thanks to a partnership between the United States Agency for International Development Agency (USAID) and First...
Local activities to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain got underway yesterday with a service of thanksgiving at the Garrison Church, Up Park Camp, which was followed by a brunch and band concert at Curphey Place.Tomorrow, there...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Limited is looking to get rid of 60 derelict buses, which it is offering for sale on an 'as is where is' basis as scrap metal.In a newspaper advertisement yesterday, the company invited tenders for the...
The anticipated challenge from within the ranks of the People's National Party (PNP) to incumbent Member of Parliament Patrick Atkinson as its standard-bearer in North Trelawny is now unlikely to emerge.PNP General Secretary Paul Burke told The...
"VALID AND transparent" is how Allan Rickards, chairman of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers' Association has described the process under which Donovan Stanberry, permanent secretary in the agriculture ministry, received a loan under the Cane...
Farmers in Dominica are to benefit from aid valued at €20,000 from the Europe-African, Caribbean and Pacific Liaison Committee (COLEACP) to help with rehabilitation of their farms, which were devastated by Tropical Storm Erika.The Caribbean...
Top executives of Jamaica Promotion Corporation (JAMPRO) have come out in defence of the agency's role in promoting the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector, denying claims by businessman Davon Crump that it has failed the sector in which he...
Jamaicans living abroad must back up their talk about love of country with practical action, such as buying into investment opportunities.That's the challenge from Gloria Henry, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI),...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says it has no record of a request for an environmental impact assessment application for the Noisy River community project in north-west Manchester which was highlighted in the House of...
Some Chinese business operators are in fact contributing to the economic and social well-being of the communities in which they operate. It is for this reason that the Hanover and St Catherine Chambers of Commerce are not lending their support to...
The Marine Police have charged seven Jamaican men with breaches of the Fisheries Act, following the detention of the boat on which they were working in Jamaican waters last Friday.Six of the men were charged with fishing without identification, as...
The struggle to correct the costly over-supply of some categories of teachers, as well as the misalignment of others, is gaining traction as the Government steps up efforts to improve the quality of education offered in Jamaican schools."We're...
The Ministry of Education will be appointing truancy officers as part of a concerted effort to arrest the chronic absenteeism among primary and secondary school students, a problem which is even more pronounced in western Jamaica."We are striking a...
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday gave the assurance that her administration is committed to making it easier for manufacturers to export their products, pointing to the continued modernisation and upgrading of the export systems for...
Jamaica still has a long way to become export competitive on the global market, Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce admitted last week at the launch of the 2015-2019 phase of the National Export Strategy held at the Terra...
"It's a hell of a significance," Kenneth Benjamin, executive chairman of the Guardsman Group, told The Gleaner yesterday, following the 50th anniversary service for Guardsman Armoured at the Garrison Church of the Ascension, Up Park Camp, St Andrew...
Normal operations returned to Jamaica's airspace Saturday night when air traffic controllers returned to work after a poor turnout of staff forced a closure of the island's airports from Friday night into Saturday morning.Nari Williams-Singh,...
For more than a decade, Sally Porteous has been a strong advocate of the death penalty, and despite criticisms from some opposed to this form of punishment, the custos of Manchester is not backing down."I want to know how many more are to be killed...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has cut the annual bird-shooting season by one week as a result of the likely impact of the prolonged drought on the availability of feed for birds.As a result, the season, which usually starts the...
The 11 parish champions who participated in last Friday's National Farm Queen Competition on the opening night of the annual Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show showed poise, determination and character, given the trying circumstances...
