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Newly appointed Chairman of the Sugar Industry Commission of Enquiry, Professor Alvin Wint, has stated that public hearings, geared at developing a new framework for the sector, will begin on Monday, June 14 at the Bernard Lodge Sugar Estate, St. Catherine. Speaking Tuesday (June 1) at a press conference at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hope Gardens, Kingston, Professor...

The Food Storage and Prevention of Infestation Division (FSPID) of the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce continues to mitigate rodent infestation in food/feed stores, post offices, prisons and hospitals. Stakeholders in the food industry have been empowered, through various training programmes and consultations, to take responsibility for rodent control through proper environmental management, according to a Ministerial Report on...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is seeking to make the process of starting an agricultural enterprise easier, with the creation of the Agro Investment Corporation. Started in October 2009, the Corporation is the business facilitation arm of the Ministry and is responsible for investment promotion and facilitation, and project and market development. It is a merger of the Agricultural...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has embarked on a series of sensitisation meetings across the island, to heighten farmers' awareness about its Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) programme, and how it will benefit them. The programme, which was launched earlier this year, is being funded by the World Bank and is expected to benefit more than 22,000 persons in...

Jamaican farmers suffer losses of up to $5 billion per annum due to praedial larceny, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has stated. Dr. Tufton said the crime can no longer be regarded as petty theft, but as organised criminal activity which is crippling the survival of up to 230,000 individuals, directly, and almost a million more, indirectly,...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Association of Branch Societies/Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will stage its annual Agricultural and Industrial Show,'Agrofest', on Saturday May 22, at the Jamaica College grounds, Old Hope Road, Kingston, starting at 8:00 a.m. Senator Norman W. Grant, President of the Kingston and St. Andrew Association of Branch Societies/JAS The Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Agricultural Show...

The Ministries of Water and Housing and Agriculture and Fisheries are currently discussing a "workable model" for the development of housing in rural Jamaica, Minister of Water and Housing, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, told the House of Representatives, Tuesday (May 18). Dr.Chang, who was speaking in 2010/11 Sectoral Debate at Gordon House, said that this was one of the initiatives...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry, has called on players in the agriculture sector to invest in insurance coverage as a critical part of doing business. He noted that adequate insurance is important for the sector to survive and become more efficient. "For too long, we have looked at insurance in this country as something...

The technical capabilities of a number of the island's fisheries officers have been significantly enhanced, by their participation in a five-week extension training course at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries' Fisheries Division, Marcus Garvey Drive, Kingston. The course formed part of capacity building activities being implemented under the sustainable marine fisheries management component of the Improving Jamaica Agriculture Productivity...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will this year partner with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on a set of initiatives to support the Ministry's focus on food and food security. Director of Information and Training at ODPEM, Delmares White, made the disclosure while speaking at a JIS Think Tank in Kingston on Wednesday, May 12,...

St. Catherine High School has successfully defended its National Secondary Schools' Food and Nutrition Quiz title, topping six other schools to cop the national trophy and cash prize of $50,000, at the finals held recently at the Caenwood Centre on Arnold Road, Kingston. Team member, Tashane Hinds, who was adjudged the individual champion student of the finals, was awarded a...

Jamaica has proposed a special project to the Haitian administration, which aims to assist in resuscitating that nation's agricultural sector from the effects of the 7.0 earthquake, which devastated that country on January 12. Speaking at Thursday's (May 6) post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, told journalists that...