New forage development strategies are being implemented by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) following a two-day visit to the University of Florida in the United States. A four-member JDDB team embarked on a technical visit to the University’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Range Cattle Research and Education Center in Ona, Florida, in September. Field Officer at the...

Approximately 15,000 new housing solutions are programmed for construction, under the Greater Bernard Lodge Development Project in St. Catherine. Providing an update in the House of Representatives on October 5, Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, said three housing developers have already commenced construction of their respective housing scheme on the divested lands. “It is expected that between them...

Structures illegally erected on lands adjoining the Clifton community in St. Catherine, which have been captured by criminal gangs, will be demolished starting Thursday (Oct.6). Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness made the disclosure while providing an update on the Bernard Lodge Development Plan in the House of Representatives on October 5. “This will be a watershed moment in...

Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Mary Western, Robert Montague, is proposing the implementation of $20 billion infrastructure development programme that targets communities, housing schemes, farm roads, bridges, drains, and river training. Making his contribution to the 2022/23 Constituency Debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (September 14), Mr. Montague said the funds should be allocated from one of...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Positive Pathways Programme, staged a Family Resource and Resilience Symposium at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort in St. James on Thursday (September 1). The event promoted collaboration and networking among parenting service providers and stakeholders, in a bid to improve family-based therapy models to strengthen family structures as well as...

The Government remains committed to completing all development projects that are on the books and not yet executed, Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has said. “We have learnt from the errors which have held projects down for eight or 12 years, and we are not making the same mistakes in the new projects,” he said. The Prime Minister...

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is advanced in the development of a Resilience Park in Portmore, St. Catherine. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, advised that ground will be broken this year for the park, which will be developed on 25 acres of land. “Funding is in place [and] the designs are being finalised; it will be a magnificent...