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A sum of $72.5 million has been earmarked for the Agricultural Support Services Project (ASSP) in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on March 31. The allotment is expected to strengthen the delivery of the Agri-Support Services for Producers, which entails the market study on ornamental horticulture to be conducted by the Databank...

The Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology's Agro Industrial Development Project has been allotted $10.7 million in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. This allocation will go towards finalizing standardization studies and the validation of protocols; the hosting of workshops for community groups for the establishment and maintenance of experimental cultivation crops with assistance from...

The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) has provided some $1.8 million to fund a cassava project, which will benefit over 100 farmers in St. Catherine. The project was launched on Tuesday (March 30) at a ceremony held at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority's (RADA) St. Catherine Parish office in Linstead. Farmers in St. Catherine and officials from RADA, the JBI, the...

The Sustainable Fisheries Management project in the Ministry of Agriculture has been allocated $3 million to carry out necessary work during the new fiscal year. As stated in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, the funds will see to the institutional strengthening of the Fisheries Division, which entail a review of the existing legislative mandate...

Vere Technical High School in Clarendon copped the top awards in the 4-H Parish Achievement Day competitions held on Wednesday (March 31), at the Knox Community College Campus in May Pen. Students of the school walked away with first place prizes in eight different categories including Goat and Care Management, Selection and Grading of Vegetables, Budding and Grafting, Application and...

With the highest road accident rate per capita in the Caribbean, the Jamaican government is taking steps to reduce accident fatalities across the island by 25 per cent within the next five years. As part of efforts to tackle the problem, the National Road Safety Policy, which was adopted by Cabinet on Monday, March 24, will be launched on April...

The Coastal Water Quality Improvement Project in the Ministry of Land and Environment is to receive $26.4 million to, among other things, develop small scale sanitation technologies, strengthen management capability of national and local level coordinators and implement an organisational capacity building strategy as well as develop national water quality standards. The sum, which has been allocated in the 2004/05...

The guidance and counselling department of the Albert Town Primary School in Trelawny, will be hosting a family exposition at the school on Wednesday, April 7 under the theme, 'Families in Action for the 21st Century'. The day's event will begin with a launching ceremony at 9:00 a.m. with guest speaker Victor Wright, who is a retired teacher. Guidance Counsellor...

The Trees for Tomorrow project has received $31 million to develop Forest Land Use Database for the Rio Minho in Clarendon, Dolphin Head Reserve in Westmoreland and Hanover and Martha Brae Watershed in Trelawny. The project, for which the allocation is set out in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives, will also prepare and publish...

Some $25.5 million has been allocated to the 'Strengthening of Jamaica's National Quality Infrastructure' project in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The funds provided will be used for the provision of technical consultancy for laboratories selected to participate in the Laboratory Accreditation Technical Assistance (LATA) Programme, completion of the legislation for the National Quality...

A total of $21.7 million has been allocated to the Environment Management of Kingston Harbour Project in the Ministry of Land and Environment, to develop structural options for implementing strategies for the Government of Jamaica to consider, and to support pre-investment efforts to address major pollutant sources. The funds, which have been set aside in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure...

Some $70 million has been allocated to the Environmental Action Plan (ENACT) for Jamaica to, inter alia, continue providing technical advice to the Ministries and agencies of government in the development of environmental stewardship action plans and to assist them in their implementation. The sum has been set aside in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure which was tabled in the...