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Trial plots being used to promote the commercialisation of the breadfruit in Jamaica are showing positive results with the potential to earn $4 million annually from an 800-tree orchard. This is after meeting operation and production costs and selling the fruit on the local market. Trees on three experimental plots of 45 acres combined in the parishes of St. James,...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security, is one step closer in fulfilling its promise to implement, during the course of this fiscal year, initiatives to promote training and employment for youths across Jamaica. This, as the Ministry on October 22 launched its Special Youth Employment and Training Project (SYEAT), the first of three initiatives proposed by the Minister of...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, has emphasised that the Government does not view parenting as an optional function, but one that is critical to national development. The Minister was speaking at the launch of Parent Month, held at the Ministry in Kingston, yesterday (October 29). Parent Month will be observed in November, under the theme: 'Parenting...Right from the Start'. "In...

Deputy Director of Nursing Services at the St. Ann's Bay Hospital, Marcia Lafayette, has commended the Jamaica Enrolled Assistant Nurses' Association, for its work and for making an invaluable contribution to the well-being of the people of Jamaica. "As a group you have worked assiduously to help in achieving the goals and objectives of the Ministry of Health and Environment....

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, has informed that the Government is currently in negotiations with Swiss metals and minerals trading company, Glencore, regarding the financial obligations that were entered into with that company in 2005, by the previous administration. "We are in negotiations now and we are trying to see if we can get out of it (the previous agreement), if...

Minister of Energy, Clive Mullings, has re-emphasised that the E10 team has put in place the necessary systems to ensure quality assurance, and to maintain the integrity of the soon to be introduced E10 fuel. "The assurances are there, we have the Petroleum Control Act, we have expanded our Inspectorate and there is going to be random testing. There will...

National Security Minister, Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has emphasised the importance of the rehabilitation of inmates in the island's correctional facilities, in the thrust to curtail crime and violence. He contends that appropriate rehabilitation programmes and activities undertaken in correctional facilities, could go a far way in ensuring that individuals, particularly first time offenders, do not return to a life...

Some 70 representatives of regional law enforcement and regulatory agencies, are currently participating in a three-day workshop, being held at the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James, which aims to equip them to better understand and counter the activities associated with unregulated investment schemes. The workshop, which commenced on Wednesday (Oct. 29), is being jointly staged by the...

Water and Housing Minister, Dr. Horace Chang, has underscored the potential dangers likely to result from the wanton damage and destruction of the country's watershed areas, by persons engaged in poor farming practices, and construction activities. Speaking at a Land Surveyors Association of Jamaica (LSAJ) seminar, commemorating the organisation's 80th anniversary on the theme: "The Contribution of the Surveying Profession...

Repair work has started on some 2 kilometres of roadway in the Prospect community of St. Thomas. Funds for the $9.4 million project, will come from the St. Thomas Parish Council and the Constituency Development Fund. Secretary/Manager at the St. Thomas Parish Council, Clinton Gordon, told JIS News, that work involves the patching and asphalting of the roadway, which has...

Vice President for Academic Administration, at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Dr. Beverly Cameron, has said that Guidance Counsellors work tirelessly to sway the nation's youth from negative tendencies. Dr. Cameron, who was guest speaker at the Ministry of Education, Exemplary and Counselling Programme Awards function, held at the NCU campus in Mandeville, Manchester, on October 28, pointed out that Guidance...

Principal of the Carron Hall High School in St. Mary, Dottlyn Dawes, has challenged Jamaicans to go for success, and not to wait for success to come to them. Miss Dawes, who was guest speaker at the recent launch of the book, 'How A Playa Got Played', written by Natalie Ferrison, at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville, noted that...