The Portmore Municipal Council has scheduled February 5 as a clean-up day, to eliminate mosquito breeding sites. “Meetings were held with tyre shop operators and other vendors in Portmore and on that day, the Municipal Council, in partnership with  the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), will remove all old tyres and other large objects that can become mosquito breeding...

Residents of St. Elizabeth are being invited to participate in a special stakeholder public meeting on Tuesday, February 2, for discussion surrounding the use of the Black River. The public consultation will take place at the Black River High School at 4:00 p.m. The meeting will inform a study on the Black River’s carrying capacity, being undertaken by the National Environment...

State Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Luther Buchanan, on Sunday (January 31) officially opened the Ralph Anglin Community Centre located in Belvedere, Westmoreland. The facility was refurbished at a cost of $10 million through the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP). It is named in honour of the late former Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, who served the Leamington Division of the...

Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, foresees an inevitable cessation in the export of bauxite, noting that there are more long- term benefits in having it processed here in Jamaica. Addressing stakeholders, delegates and leaders of trade unions representing workers at the St. Ann-based Noranda Bauxite Limited (NBL), at the Cardiff Hotel and Spa, on January...

Distinguished educator and Board Chairman of the All American Institute of Medical Sciences (AAIMS), Dr. Simon Clarke, heads the line-up of distinguished presenters at the 2016 lecture series, being staged by the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Mona Western Jamaica Campus. The four-day event gets underway on Monday, February 1 at the institution’s Montego Bay campus, located at 10...

Government has embarked on a massive drive to boost agricultural production in Hanover through the setting up of banana and mixed crop agro parks. Two parks are to be established. One in Hazelymph, which will be dedicated to banana production for export; and the other in Shettlewood for cultivation of crops such as pineapple, cassava, ginger, Irish potato, sweet potato,...

More than 150 farmers from the parishes of Hanover and St. James stand to benefit from the establishment of the Hazelymph/Seven Rivers agro park, which will grow bananas for export to the United Kingdom (UK) market. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has been working closely with key agencies and stakeholders to establish the facility, which will supply the overseas...