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Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has lauded the performance of the Agricultural Support Services Project (ASSP), noting that it has enhanced the delivery of support services to farmers and improved agricultural healthy and food safety systems. "I am pleased with the performance of this project, as it moves into a second phase, which has been approved because of its outstanding...

Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has said that there was no difficulty in marketing Jamaica's agriculture products. "There is no marketing problem for Jamaican agricultural crops. All of our export crops have a ready market. If anything, we sometimes have a problem meeting the demand because of one setback or the other," Minister Clarke said during his contribution to the...

Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke has urged regional parliamentarians to pay close attention to the trade issues affecting the region, and to work together to refine CARICOM's position going into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December. "We need to have a clear understanding of the issues, implications and the future path that we seek to...

Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke has cited Jamaica's influence and the high regard with which the country's agricultural produce is held internationally among the reasons that have enabled local products to be sold at high costs to overseas markets. "Our products are well known and highly regarded and more often than not command the highest prices," Minister Clarke said. He was...

The Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) will host a public forum next week to discuss the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and how it is expected to affect the Institute, and by extension, the maritime sector. It is being put on by the CMI in collaboration with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social Studies and Economics and Radio Mona...

Jamaicans and other overseas nationals who require visas to travel to the United Kingdom will start paying more as of July 1, 2005. A release from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London said the fee for a six-month visit visa would increase from

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson-Miller will deliver the keynote address at the 21st annual awards banquet of the Jamaica National Movement (JNM), on Saturday, June 18, at Dante's Catering Hall in New York. Founded in 1984, the JNM is a community based organization dedicated to mobilizing Jamaican nationals domiciled in the northeast USA to support...

Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, Sharon Haye-Webster, has said that the survey of parcels of land in the Windsor Heights community in Central Village, St. Catherine, would be completed by year-end for handing over of titles in 2006. The process, she said, would ensure security of tenure for close to 12,000 occupants, some of whom have lived...

Member of Parliament for Western St. Mary, Dr. Neil McGill has said that the implementation of housing and water supply projects in his constituency, had greatly improved the quality of life of the citizens. He said people in the area were grateful for the Social Housing Programme (modalities One and Two), which had enabled more than 100 persons to benefit...

Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has said that there was no difficulty in marketing Jamaica's agriculture products. "There is no marketing problem for Jamaican agricultural crops. All of our export crops have a ready market. If anything, we sometimes have a problem meeting the demand because of one setback or the other," Minister Clarke said during his contribution to the...

Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke has urged regional parliamentarians to pay close attention to the trade issues affecting the region, and to work together to refine CARICOM's position going into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December. "We need to have a clear understanding of the issues, implications and the future path that we seek to...

Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke has cited Jamaica's influence and the high regard with which the country's agricultural produce is held internationally among the reasons that have enabled local products to be sold at high costs to overseas markets. "Our products are well known and highly regarded and more often than not command the highest prices," Minister Clarke said. He was...