A breakdown in communication between the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) and the Clarendon Municipal Corporation is being blamed for the JAS CEO Christopher Emanuel having been hauled before the courts a month ago. The court action stemmed from...
Embattled president of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Dr Derrick Deslandes, has declined to say whether he will be applying to continue on in the post after it was advertised in The Sunday Gleaner last weekend. Deslandes...
Two years after he was charged for possession of spiny lobster and Queen conch during the close season and beyond the declaration period, Manchester businessman Oswald Powell was found guilty and fined $300,000 or spend six months in prison. The...
Chief executive officer of the National Fisheries Authority (NFA), Dr Gavin Bellamy, is warning that the agency has been stepping up its monitoring and surveillance activities for the spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) close season, which started on...
UNITED STATES Agency for International Development (USAID) Jamaica Country Representative, Jason Fraser, has challenged Jamaicans to build on the billions of dollars in assistance provided by foreign agencies and countries, in order to get better...
Given less than a month to prepare following the announcement by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr on Wednesday, March 23, that parish agricultural shows as well as the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show would be...
Despite having less than a month to plan and execute this year’s staging of the annual St Mary Agri-Expo following an announcement last month by Agriculture Minister Pearnel Charles Jr that agricultural shows would be returning, the organisers are...
An occupation which demands hours of back-breaking toil in the broiling sun, with no break on public holidays or weekends – farming is getting a lot harder as the turmoil in the Ukraine continues to deepen, with growing adverse impact on the global...
Farmers across the island have now shifted preparations into high-gear for the return of the premier agricultural show in the English-speaking Caribbean, following a two-year break due to COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings. The much-...
Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) CEO Shane Dalling yesterday told the Joint Select Committee reviewing the bill to update the Firearms Act that the current provisions guiding how the agency deals with certain matters regarding permits were...
The training of some 80 interviewers who will visit an estimated 8,000 households across Jamaica between April 12 and June, to gather information on the living conditions of women and children, got under way in Mandeville, Manchester, and the...
The treatise by Dr Donovan Stanberry, registrar of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar-Dependent Community in Jamaica: Global Action; Local Impact is a damning indictment on the failure of...
Gloria Goffe has welcomed news that the multiple indicator cluster survey to be conducted this year will for the first time also provide critical data on children with disabilities, saying it is long overdue. The UNICEF survey, to be conducted...
Kingston Western Member of Parliament Desmond McKenzie said that students in his constituency have been severely impacted by learning loss after missing out on classes in the virtual set-up ushered in by COVID-19 in March 2020. Speaking during the...
The largely unregulated use of chemicals in agriculture has spawned public-health dangers like cancer for the population, an organic farmer based in western Jamaica has charged. In an address at Tuesday’s launch of a study on the pattern and use of...
Less than three years after leaving his job as chief accounting officer in the agriculture ministry, campus registrar at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Donovan Stanberry, will today take a virtual journey back in time, with the launch...
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has dismissed the notion of sanctions against Senator Peter Bunting for his role in the granting of gun licences to two persons with criminal traces, for which he was cited in a special report to...
“Paranoid.” That’s K.D. Knight’s self-assessment of the anxiety he has borne daily, even before his wife Pauline, a development expert, died from complications from COVID-19 seven months ago. The veteran attorney-at-law is still maintaining rigid...
Dr Paul Robertson should have followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and gone on to make a living and name in farming, younger sister Lois Douglas disclosed during the thanksgiving ceremony for the former Cabinet minister and political...
Jamaicans are being warned to brace for greater economic fallout from what the parliamentary Opposition is calling a cost-of-living-crisis that threatens to worsen with the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Citing the meteoric rise in the...
Kadie-Ann Witter Domville remembers well the eager anticipation that would seize her when her dad, Winston Witter, was coming to visit at her maternal grandparents’ home in Ocho Rios, St Ann. Invariably, she would fall asleep before he arrived,...
The slow pace or failure to implement policies on mitigation and adaptation strategies to address climate change throughout the Caribbean was highlighted as an issue of major concern by panellists during Thursday evening’s March edition of the...
The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) is awaiting word from the Cabinet on its request to host the Montepelier (St James) and St Mary agricultural shows on Easter Monday, with an eye also on staging its annual Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and...
KEEPING GLOBAL warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next decade may be convenient for the rest of the globe but for the Caribbean that objective is mandatory, according to chief executive officer of the Caribbean Climate Smart...
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr told Tuesday’s meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament that when the consultancies for the restructuring of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) are completed,...
