The impressive showing by Denham Town Primary School at last Tuesday's awards ceremony for the Youth Gambling Prevention All-Island Prevention Poster Competition 2017, where, after two students tied for first, the western Kingston-based school went...
As the regional sugar cane industry braces for life after October when the European Union (EU) lifts the quota restriction on beet sugar production, Jamaica is struggling with a serious shortage of manual labourers - specifically cane cutters."We...
Their resounding success and dominance of the Youth Gambling Prevention All-Island Poster Competition 2017 caught the Denham Town Primary School team by surprise, the members admitted in an interview at their 105 North Street, downtown Kingston,...
Rehabilitation work at the Denbigh Show Ground in Clarendon to address serious public health breaches which must be corrected in time for the August 5-7 staging of the annual agricultural industrial and food show is progressing apace, according the...
Expansion of the local media landscape, reflected in the explosion of community and other radio stations, as well as additions to the number of free-to-air television channels, has made the task of content monitoring much harder for the Broadcasting...
The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) has described as insulting statements attributed to Deputy Superintendent of Police Paul Bernard and Dr Lynden Rose, a justice of the peace for St Elizabeth, during a recent Gleaner Inside the...
Maureen Golding, regional director of the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has challenged Jamaicans to view local health centres as their first point of contact for primary health care treatment in light of ongoing improvements in the...
Medical officer in charge of the upgraded Hagley Park Health Centre, Dr Ilene Pearce Dennis, has welcomed the reopening of the facility as a long-overdue and well-needed improvement to the region's primary health-care delivery portfolio."The...
All brown sugar sold in retail outlets across Jamaica must be properly packaged in appropriately labelled heat-sealed plastic bags as of now.Karl Samuda, minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries, used a press conference at his New...
The Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) will be pressing its case for a levelling of the playing field to allow manufacturers to enjoy inter-nationally competitive loan rates, in keeping with those accorded to other sectors."I'm talking about...
Inexpensive financing, affordable factory space and a revised procurement policy are the priority agenda items for the Metry Seaga-led Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) after Seaga was returned to office unopposed for a next year during the...
The two-decades-long embargo on the raw, unedited version of private conversations between former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and wife Glynne is intended to protect persons, some of whom are still actively involved in politics. Though...
Loosening the stranglehold of crime on manufacturing could result in a doubling of the 8.5 per cent contribution to gross domestic production that the sector now adds to the economy each year. The 79,000 jobs as well as the US$486 million in export...
The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) is in a race against time to clean up the Denbigh Show Ground in Clarendon and get it up to the exacting international public health standards stipulated by the Clarendon Health Department.Meeting those...
Roderick Francis, chief executive officer of B&D Trawling, is excited about the company's first export shipment of fresh, ocean-caught fish to the United States...
Deplorable conditions at last year's staging of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show created such a stink among Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) staffers that RADA has served notice that unless there is a significant...
A month before he was dismissed from the post of chief executive officer of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), Hugh Graham received a glowing appraisal of his performance signed by Donald Elvey, the chairman of the board of directors.Graham...
When the teachers complained that incoming students at Rennock Lodge All-Age School were having difficulty with mathematics, Principal Jacqueline Lewis came up with an innovative idea to get the youngsters interested in and acquainted with numbers....
Jamaicans are being urged not buy improperly packaged and labelled sugar, starting July 1.Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Samuda, made the appeal to consumers last Friday as he officially launched the new labelling...
The odds of the 65th staging of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food show being cancelled have gone up significantly following the failure of the representatives from organisers, the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), to meet with public...
This year's show must go on, according to Lester 'Mike' Henry, member of parliament for Central Clarendon, in which the Denbigh Show Ground, site of the annual agricultural, industrial and food show, is slated to be held from August 5-7."I...
A significant decline in sales has forced Hardrock Concrete Mix, a Spanish Town-based manufacturer of pre-mixed concrete to shutter its operation even though there is strong demand for the construction material."I haven't sold any concrete since...
This year's staging of the annual Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show hangs in the balance pending the outcome of a meeting this morning between a team from the Clarendon Health Department and the organisers, the Jamaica Agriculture...
Former government minister Carlyle Anthony Cosmo Dunkley is being hailed for his long and dedicated service to country and party, following his death on Tuesday night at the age of 78. He died at the University Hospital of the West Indies.The...
Dr Denise Chevannes, executive director of the National Family Planning Board, has charged local journalists to use their office to do more in ramping up general awareness and sensitisation about HIV/AIDS, detouring from the traditionally easier...
