Farmer Clifford Wilson, who also goes by the name ‘Dennis the Menace’, had returned from his field and was relaxing across from the shop operated by Miss Precious. He was chatting with the shopkeeper and her daughter-in-law, Shanice, when The...
Derrick Banks, once one of the harder working and more successful farmers on a section of land across from the Caribbean Estate housing scheme in Greater Portmore, is these days a broken man. On Tuesday when The Gleaner caught up with him at the...
Jamaica’s chicken-meat import policy may be overhauled to concentrate licences in the hands of local poultry producers, as a cure to perceived systemic corruption that has dogged the trade, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said. The proposed fix...
Major Jamaican chicken producers are pressing the Government for 100 per cent inspection of all poultry imports in the wake of a damning report by the Integrity Commission citing fraud, duty evasion, and a permit process that lacks integrity and...
Veteran farmer Paul Henry is well aware of the potential of the 26-acre parcel of land he will be forced to give up when the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings Limited takes control of the property on the former Bernard Lodge Sugar Estates in...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Saturday acknowledged that the major breakaway along the Gordon Town main road in St Andrew, which has effectively restricted movement into and out of the area to motorcycle and pedestrian traffic, is due to the...
Work is progressing on a $60-million alternative route from Papine to Gordon Town in St Andrew after a major landslide damaged the main roadway last month. The work on the new route through Savage Pen, which Prime Minister Andrew Holness said was...
The Senate yesterday passed the Dogs (Liability for Attacks) Act 2020, which will impose tough financial or custodial penalties on owners held responsible for their animals causing death or serious injury to a person. The act was passed with 24...
Jamaica’s agriculture sector is to undergo a major reset which will see the country’s research stations reclaiming their pride of place as global centres of excellence, starting with the Bodles Research Station in St Catherine. Minister of...
Several Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, are shaping up to miss the ambitious 90-90-90 United Nations target for the end of this year to help end the AIDS epidemic. Set in 2013, the target called for countries to have 90 per cent of those...
The containment strategies dictated by the coronavirus pandemic to curb its spread are already affecting the sexual behaviours of restless young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who have been having more unprotected sex, with more of them...
Opposition Senator Dr Floyd Morris will have the full backing of the Jamaican Government and the entire CARICOM region on Monday when he vies for a seat on the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which oversees an international...
The $1-trillion bill to efficiently upgrade Jamaica’s roads requires a paradigm shift in construction and maintenance policy and provision of a credible budget, National Works Agency (NWA) Chief Executive E. G. Hunter has said. The state agency...
Women and girls across the globe have been exposed to more physical and sexual abuse since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of the necessary confinement measures implemented to contain the spread of the coronavirus. It is for this...
The Holness administration is crafting intervention for men who batter and scar Jamaican women and children, oftentimes leaving the victims burdened by trauma long after their physical wounds have healed. An initiative to be spearheaded by the...
It was more than 20 years ago when a serious weather system disrupted sections of the National Water Commission (NWC) distribution network, dislocating the portion that served the home of Samuel ‘Dickie’ Douglas and his wife Peaches in the Palm...
Things are definitely looking brighter in sections of downtown Kingston with eye-catching murals along Water Lane and other sections of the capital generating a groundswell of positive vibrations. Workers and passers-by in the area dubbed the...
Sticking with the good values learnt at home and resisting the lure of the bling culture which promotes hype over substance is critical to achieving one’s life goals. And it matters not which high school you attend, if you adhere to some simple,...
Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the ocean — on track to triple by 2040 without concerted global efforts to stop it. In the Caribbean specifically, native mangroves and coral reefs could help protect more than a quarter of...
A youth training programme is geared at closing the massive gap in Jamaica’s complement of agricultural extension officers, the technical personnel who operate as key liaisons with the island’s farmers. The first cohort of 40 young women and men...
An islandwide survey by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) to determine the full extent of the damage to crops and livestock is ongoing and won’t be known for some time, as the island continues to be affected by heavy rains. However, already...
A leading agriculturalist has called into question the focus and practicality of the national campaign aimed at getting Jamaicans to eat and utilise more local foods in an effort to substantially grow domestic agriculture, while building on the...
As Jamaicans from all age groups continue to struggle to cope with the restrictions on movements and public gatherings, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has recognised that there could be some fallout in terms of how individuals, especially...
A FACE mask, whether made of cloth or disposable material ,should not be worn for more than four hours, after which it ceases to be effective in containing the spread of the coronavirus. Senior Public Health Nurse Charmaine Vassell-Shettlewood...
One unit of blood can make the life-saving difference for as many as three persons, acting director of the National Blood Transfusion Service, Dr Alisha Tucker, has said. Tucker was speaking last Friday during a drive to ramp up supplies. COVID-19...
