Seven hundred farmers, who operate in the Essex Valley region of St. Elizabeth, will benefit from training towards enabling them to achieve Global Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) certification. The training is part of the Essex Valley Agriculture Development Project (EVADP), which aims to enhance the production and productivity of farmers in a sustainable, climate-sensitive manner, while improving their livelihood. Permanent...

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) is aiming to attract 500 persons to the 2019 Employee Engagement Conference from October 16 to 17. The event will be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, under the theme ‘Employee Experience 3D – Design. Develop. Deliver’. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ on Tuesday, September 3, Chief Executive...

Jamaica has mobilised the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to be dispatched to assist the hurricane-ravaged, neighbouring islands of the Bahamas. Prime Minister Andrew Holness who has pledged to support the Bahamas in the wake of the disaster has placed the DART on standby to be on the ground in Abaco and Grand Bahama, the two worst-hit areas. Prime Minister...

The National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC) will be marking Senior Citizens’ Week with a series of activities during the month of September into early October. NCSC Executive Director, Cassandra Morrison, told JIS News that the observance, under the theme ‘Older Persons: Partners in Social, Cultural and Economic Development’, will recognise the immense contribution that seniors are making to the...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has reported that the academic year 2019/2020 began smoothly on Monday (September 2). During a live broadcast with ‘OPM Connect: Education Matters’ on Monday, Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean, provided an update. “We are pleased to welcome back close to 500,000 students who would...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon Olivia Grange (second right) along with (from left) Opposition Senator, Donna Scott-Mottley; Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Rocky Meade; and wife of the Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness, participate in the centenary national thanksgiving service for Dr. the Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou), held at Coke Methodist Church, East...

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has officially launched Miss Lou 100 — commemorating the centenary of “the mother of Jamaican culture,” the Honourable Louise Bennett Coverley. Speaking at a Service of Honour and Praise at Coke Memorial Methodist Church in Downtown, Kingston on Sunday, Minister Grange said: “Miss Lou devoted her life to...