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The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands has approved a 100 per cent increase in the box price for cocoa, moving from $500.06 per box to $1000.06 per box. Naburn Nelson, Secretary/Manager of the Cocoa Industry Board, which purchases the product on the Ministry's behalf, told JIS News that the increase would become effective at the start of the new crop...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) will be undertaking research to determine the uses and economic potential of the breadfruit. The research will be done in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, the Northern Caribbean University and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), which has done extensive fieldwork on the fruit. Laura Roberts-Nkrumah, researcher in the Department...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Dr. Fenton Ferguson, has said that work is in progress for the rehabilitation of the Bogue water treatment plant in St. Ann. "The Bogue water system is one of the most efficient systems that we have in the National Water Commission (NWC). It is a gravity fed system...

Minister of Information and Development, Senator Colin Campbell, has said that last week's announced restriction on liquids during air travel would have a negative impact on the national economy. The Information Minister, who was speaking with JIS News in New York recently, noted that the new rules, as outlined by the United States Department of Homeland Security and the British...

Petrina Powell, a language and literature teacher at Holmwood Technical High School in Manchester has been named 'Teacher of the Year' by the HEART Trust NTA's Technical High School Development Project (THSDP). Mrs. Powell, who won the coveted title over 13 other teachers from across the island, was presented with the HEART Trust trophy, a plaque and other prizes at...

In an effort to showcase Jamaican culture in Baltimore, USA, the Jamaica Association of Maryland will stage a three-day Reggae Festival at Clifton Park from August 18 to 20. The festival will feature music, food, dance, art and craft, and Jamaican products. Over the three days, headlining the music package will be Strikers Possie, Carl Malcolm & The Positive Vibrations,...

Senior officers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands are participating in a two-day business facilitation training programme, as part of government's effort to create a more business friendly environment within the public sector. "The objective includes a change in the attitudes, behaviour, systems and procedures throughout the Jamaican public sector to achieve a friendlier business environment," said Agriculture Minister...

Yesterday, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, His Excellency Hugo Chavez, paid a one-day working visit to Jamaica, aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, headed the welcome party to greet the Venezuelan President at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, when his plane touched...

Yesterday (August 14), the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, paid a one-day working visit to Jamaica, aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, headed the welcome party to greet the President at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, when his plane touched down shortly after 1:00 p.m. Both...

Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has proposed that the Caribbean region was seeking assistance from the United States (US) to implement a monitoring programme for deportees, particularly those persons, who had migrated to the US as children. Mrs. Simpson Miller, who was speaking at an editorial board meeting at Carib News in New York last Friday (August 11), which was...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has taken on the challenge of having National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey's name cleared of the charge of mail fraud by the United States Government. She has instructed Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator Anthony Hylton, to proceed with dialogue between Jamaicans in the Diaspora and United States Congressman, Charles Rangel, "to begin to...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has emphasised that it is important for the Caribbean region to work together, to ensure that the countries within the hemisphere do not "become victims of the process of globalisation, but will become victors". Addressing an editorial board meeting at Carib News in New York on August 11, she said the region could best overcome...