Within minutes of being declared winner of Wednesday's presidential election for the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Lenworth Fulton was on the receiving end of unsolicited advice about how to run the umbrella organisation for which he takes...
Norman Grant, outgoing president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), is reporting that a number of economic gains were achieved during financial year 2017-18, as the effort to reposition the JAS as an independent and viable organisation...
Construction of its flagship service station by Total Jamaica Limited is slated to get under way by the end of this month and be completed in four months on land at the eastbound Old Harbour ramp of Highway 2000, St Catherine. This will bring to 58...
Wednesday's election of a new executive for the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) could be the most keenly contested in decades, with just under 600 delegates voting to give Lenworth Fulton a crack at leading the 123 year-old farmers' organisation or...
Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC) Dr Cliff Riley has underscored the importance of working partnerships that acknowledge and incorporate the expertise of small players as critical to the success of Jamaica's fledgling...
The time has come for Jamaica to tap into the vast economic potential of the indigenous ganja strains for which it is famous, according to Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Dr Andrew Wheatley."The world is opening itself to cannabis use and...
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw yesterday served notice that he would be taking steps to close the trade loopholes that Jamaica's trading partners have been abusing to dump goods into the country to the...
Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson yesterday gave the assurance that Government was on track to getting the Occupational Safety and Health Bill passed into law as soon as possible, admitting that its passage was long overdue.The...
The rich, attractive look of its Jamaica Harvest brand of agro-processed foods - sauces, seasonings, preserves and condiments made especially for Things Jamaican - is design- specific, Janine Taylor, manager for the marketing services unit at the...
In 1950 when Tropical Battery Company Limited began operations, it was as a manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries. Today, the sales of automotive batteries remains its core business. However, this has been complemented by the distribution of...
Five years after the launch of Project Grow, Red Stripe's local raw material sourcing initiative has really grown, taking roots well beyond its' original mandate.With 2,256 acres of cassava under cultivation, 98 Learning for Life graduates and 15...
Most of the inner-city community of Allman Town, Kingston 4, would be wiped out if Government goes ahead with its master plan of developing the area in and around Heroes Park in a project known as the Oval Zone project, the College of the Fellows of...
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry, has put to rest speculation that a large section of the Bodles Research Station in St Catherine is at risk of being carved up to facilitate The...
The first of six seed banks to identify, preserve, and store climate-resilient crop varieties to be established across the region is set for completion at the Bodles Research Station in St Catherine by July this year."The plans have been drawn in...
Following a tour of the Metcalfe Street Juvenile Remand Centre in west Kingston yesterday, State Minister of National Security Rudyard Spencer alluded to plans to ramp up the level of production and productivity at the facility that houses boys...
Thursday's tour of the Spike Industries Limited factory at 99 Windward Road, Kingston 2, is evidence that the manufacturing sector is alive and well, according to Metry Seaga, president ofthe Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) who led a...
After three days of discourse, participants in the first Caribbean Conference of Mayors, held at the University of the West Indies, Mona Regional Headquarters, have agreed in principle on a template for strengthening local governance at the regional...
Jamaica's failure to embrace and fully participate in Airbnb, a web-based directory of bed and breakfast-type vacation properties, which is redefining the global tourism product, will result in the country missing out on vast economic benefits to...
Applications opened on Tuesday, April 3, for licences to deal in coffee, cocoa, coconut, and spices, the commodities whose regulatory functions have been incorporated under the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), but the...
Almost eight years after advocating the severance of the apron strings linking the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) to the agriculture ministry, as a prerequisite for renewal and growth of the farmers' organisation, Norman Grant has done an about-...
Audley Shaw, the newly appointed minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries, yesterday announced that Cabinet had dropped demands for $2 billion from dividend earned on Seprod shares owned by the Coconut Industry Board.The decision...
A full-page advertisement on 'Concerns About the Obesity Epidemic in Jamaica' published in the Sunday Gleaner of March 25 as an open letter to the Government of Jamaica by a coalition of nine medical groups supporting the proposed tax on sugar-...
Kevin Condappa, acting director of the agricultural services division, has called for a return to the defunct centralised marketing system known as the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) with headquarters at 188 Spanish Town Road in Kingston...
The Fisheries Division is reminding fishers and other persons engaged in the harvesting, sale and export of spiny lobsters to be mindful of the new regulations which will be in effect again when the annual close season begins on Sunday, April 1.Even...
Dr Andrew Wheatley, minister of science, energy and technology, has warned against any unrealistic expectations of a financial windfall in the short term from the three-dimensional (3-D) seismic survey for offshore oil and gas exploration now...
