Some $800 million will be spent to rehabilitate 80 kilometres of cane roads in sugar-producing parishes, under the Sugar Transformation Programme. This was disclosed by Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, as he closed the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 12. The works will be undertaken in St. Thomas, Hanover, St....

The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has launched the Port Community System (PCS), to manage all trade logistics processes. The PCS is a single, neutral and open electronic platform which enables the secure exchange of information between public and private stakeholders in the port community. It acts as a single window that manages all trade, logistics and business processes to...

The Government remains committed to ongoing implementation of strategies to eliminate gender-based violence and discrimination. Notable among these are provisions in the National Policy for Gender Equality; the proposed National Action Plan to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence; as well as the Caribbean Community/United Nations Population Fund (CARICOM/UNFPA) Integrated Strategic Framework, which targets a 20 per cent reduction in adolescent/teenage pregnancies in...

Five residents of the Mount Olivet Boys’ Home in Walderston, Manchester, are on the trip of a lifetime to France funded by sprinter, Yohan Blake through his YB Afraid Foundation and his French sponsor and business partner, Richard Mille. Blake and the boys departed the island on July 6 for the 12-day trip, where they will experience the unique French...

Four students of Jamaican heritage living across the diaspora are now in Jamaica benefiting from a one-month internship, under the GraceKennedy Jamaica Birthright Programme. The programme is a cultural and professional internship geared at highlighting all aspects of Jamaican life, while furthering the career goals of the selected candidates.  Participants are Kimberly Ann Stephenson and Casey Daley from the United...

Director of Elections, Orette Fisher, says the implementation of a national registration system will ensure that the names of deceased persons do not appear on the voters’ list. This, he said, will protect the integrity of the electoral system and make it easier to determine the number of eligible voters in the country. Mr. Fisher was addressing the close of...

Final-year Management Information System (MIS) students at the Montego Bay Community College, in St. James, have launched an innovative mobile calculator application to improve the calculation of taxes and Grade Point Average (GPA) of students. The application, which is called ‘JAM-CAL’, was launched at the college recently after months of research and work by the six-member group. Leader of the...