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OCHO RIOS – St. Ann farmers are lauding the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Root Crop Project, and the input of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) in helping them to improve the quality of crop production.“ This project involves a number of root crops, mainly yam, coco, sweet potato, Irish potato and ginger,” Manager for RADA’s St. Ann branch,...

Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, has testified that within 10 days of receipt of the extradition request for Christopher Coke, he was informed by Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, that there were difficulties with the request. Cross examined by People’s National Party (PNP) lead counsel, K.D. Knight, the Prime Minister said that, based on information he received from the Justice...

KINGSTON – World Bank Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean, Marie Lucie-Morin, says remittance flows to developing countries are likely to increase to US$374 billion by 2012. She says this is consequent on the resilience of the earnings of persons in the countries of remittances origin to the global financial crisis. Mrs. Lucie-Morin was addressing the opening of...

KINGSTON – Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness says there were no wide-scale challenges experienced at yesterday's  March 24 sitting of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).   "As far as is possible, all students who could or should have sat the exam were allowed to," he told  journalists at a press briefing  late yesterday, at the Ministry's Heroes Circle...

KINGSTON – Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), Professor Hopeton Dunn has said that problems, such as payola and piracy that are facing the broadcasting industry, can be solved through the collaborative efforts of key players in the sector. Professor Dunn made the comment while addressing representatives from the music and broadcasting sectors at a ‘Payola and Anti-Piracy’...

KINGSTON – Young Jamaicans have been urged to be respectful and maintain the peace, as they interact with colleagues attending the annual ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys ‘and Girls’ Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. The appeal came from the Director of Development, Planning and monitoring of the National Transformation Programme (NTP), Fabian Brown, while addressing a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think...

KINGSTON – The mobile collection services of the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) have been boosted with the addition of a 15 seater bus, which will be used to conduct blood drives islandwide. Addressing the handing over ceremony at the NBTS, Slipe Road, Kingston on Wednesday March 23, Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, said that the vehicle, valued at...

KINGSTON – The island's complement of nephrology and operating theatre nurses has been increased, with the addition of 25 nurses in these specialist areas. They have been presented with certificates and awards, after undergoing training for eight months in nephrology and 32 weeks in operating theatre procedures. Addressing the graduation ceremony at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, today  March...

KINGSTON – Executive Director of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), Rohan Barnett is imploring investors to be selective in choosing where they invest their money. He also pointed out that long term investments tend to be less volatile and more growth oriented.  “If you are being promised a guarantee with extremely high short term returns that sound too good to...

Members of the FINSAC Commission of Enquiry had a private meeting Wednesday morning March 23, to discuss speeding up the enquiry to meet an April closing deadline. Chairman of the Commission, Worrick Bogle, told the media, following another aborted sitting on Wednesday March 23, that while the Commission is concerned about the slow pace, it understands the problems facing the...

PORT ANTONIO – Scores of persons attended the second Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) - sponsored farmers market in Portland, at the Folly Estate, Port Antonio, on Friday March 18. A total of 45 farmers from Portland, St. Ann, St. Elizabeth and St. Mary participated, with carrots, cabbage and Irish potatoes accounting for a greater level of sale than other...

LONDON – Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), His Excellency Anthony Johnson, has called for a total scrapping of Britain’s Air Passenger Duty (APD). Mr. Johnson said Wednesday March 23 that, while the British government’s decision to delay the increase in the duty represented temporary relief for travellers to Caribbean destinations, scrapping the tax would have a more...