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The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) has been making significant strides in the agricultural industry, providing more efficient and effective service to farmers. Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has pointed out that despite the reduction in the extension officers in the organization, due to a lack of financial resources, RADA was now a more efficient force. "More innovative methods have...

There has been an increase in the number of persons placed on community service orders in St. Thomas, since the programme was launched in the parish two years ago. Community service order is one of the non-custodial sentencing options by the courts where an offender, 17 years and older, who has been found guilty of a minor non-violent offence, is...

A Bill to make special provisions for Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification for the registration of titles in specified areas is now before the Lower House for consideration. Land and Environment Minister Dean Peart, who tabled the legislation yesterday (June 8), said that the Bill would enable the implementation of the National Land Policy, which provides for the establishment of...

Member of Parliament for North Western St. Elizabeth, J.C. Hutchinson has suggested that the Ministry of Agriculture should immediately identify persons as verifiers in the event of another national disaster, as this would make the process of verifying loss easier than that which obtained after Hurricane Ivan last year. "These persons should be trained and ready, to go out into...

The Nazareth All-age School in Manchester is to benefit from the annual Maidstone Emancipation fair, which will be held on the school grounds on Monday, August 1. Plans are in high gear for the staging of the event, which is being organised by the Maidstone Community Council (MCC) and the Nazareth All-age Past Students' Association. Activities will include a gospel...

Hundreds of homeowners and builders from the parish of Hanover are to benefit from training clinics on how to build safe homes, to be carried out by the HEART Trust/NTA in collaboration with the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica. Interested persons are being urged to attend the sessions, which will be held in the communities of Johnson Town and Green...

The Government is to spend $23 million to construct a fishing complex at Jamworld on the Dyke Road in Portmore, St. Catherine, to accommodate fish vendors who currently ply their trade on the Portmore Causeway. Dr. Wayne Reid, Managing Director of the National Road Operating Constructing Company (NROCC), informed JIS News that due to a "multiplicity of factors", including the...

With statistics from the Police Traffic Division indicating an increase in fatal traffic accidents since the start of the year, Executive Director of the National Road Safety Council, Paula Fletcher, is appealing to motorists to exercise greater care as they use the nation's roadways. Mrs. Fletcher, who was speaking at the launch of the National Road Safety Campaign on June...

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) has been making significant strides in the agricultural industry, providing more efficient and effective service to farmers. Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has pointed out that despite the reduction in the extension officers in the organization, due to a lack of financial resources, RADA was now a more efficient force. "More innovative methods have...

There has been an increase in the number of persons placed on community service orders in St. Thomas, since the programme was launched in the parish two years ago. Community service order is one of the non-custodial sentencing options by the courts where an offender, 17 years and older, who has been found guilty of a minor non-violent offence, is...

Although there is an abundance of international, regional and national anti-poverty programmes and projects, spanning many decades, the scourge of dehumanising poverty persists with a stubborn vigour. Additionally, science, the foremost system for generating knowledge and solving problems, along with its attendant technologies, instead of ameliorating the problem, have made a parlous situation worse. Accordingly, disparities between the rich and...

Although there is an abundance of international, regional and national anti-poverty programmes and projects, spanning many decades, the scourge of dehumanising poverty persists with a stubborn vigour. Additionally, science, the foremost system for generating knowledge and solving problems, along with its attendant technologies, instead of ameliorating the problem, have made a parlous situation worse. Accordingly, disparities between the rich and...