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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (right), addressing media briefing on September 29, at the Ministry’s offices in New Kingston. He gave an update on the Frosty Pod Rot disease, which is affecting local cocoa. At left is Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mr. Reginald Budhan.

Agriculture Ministry to Spend $150 Million to Eradicate Cocoa Disease

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries will spend $150 million over the next three years to eradicate the frosty pod rot disease that is affecting the local cocoa industry. Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl...

Police Commissioner, Dr. Carl Williams, speaking at a news conference in Montego Bay, St. James, on September 25. He said the police will not relent in their efforts to capture those involved in criminal activities in St. James.

Police Commissioner Encourages Jamaicans to Have Confidence in JCF

Chairman of the National Housing Trust (NHT), Ambassador Dr. Nigel Clarke, addresses member of the Jamaican Diaspora in New York at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Jamaica, Queens, on September 22. Listening (from left) are: Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness; Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States (US), Audrey Marks; and Acting Consul General to New York, Derron McCreath.

Jamaicans in the Diaspora May Soon Benefit from NHT Homes

Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague. (FILE)

Action to Take Profit Out of Crime

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP

Emergency Meeting at OPM Today

Senior Specialist, Partnership and Communication, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Marco Macias (right), addresses the benefits of FOROMIC at a JIS Think Tank. Listening are Senior Specialist Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), IDB, Wayne Beecher (left); and Acting General Manager, Strategic Services Division, Development Bank of Jamaica, Christopher Brown.

10 years ago CommerceJIS Think Tank

MSMEs Urged to Register for Markets Innovation and Capital Forum

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are being encouraged to register for the upcoming Forum on Markets Innovation and Capital (FOROMIC), which will be held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James from October 24-26. FOROMIC is a space for business and financial innovations and provides a platform for microfinance businesses to showcase their products and services. Senior...

Rodney Rose of the Charles Town Maroon Council (right), blows an abeng to welcome persons to the launch of a National Community Tourism Portal by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at the Devonshire, Devon House on September 28. Looking on are (from left) Tourism Specialist with JSIF, Beverly Stewart; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith; Managing Director at JSIF, Omar Sweeney; and World Bank Country Manager, Galina Sotirova. In the background (at right) is Marcia Douglas of the Charles Town Maroon Council. The National Community Tourism Portal is a web-based platform to promote registered community-based tourism enterprises in Jamaica.

10 years ago LabourTourism

National Community Tourism Portal Launched

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has launched a National Community Tourism Portal, which is a web-based platform to promote licensed community-based tourism enterprises across the island. The portal, launched at the Devonshire at Devon House in St. Andrew, today (September 28), is part of the Government’s US$15-million Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) project, being implemented by JSIF through funding...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, pays his last respects to the late realist painter Cecil Cooper during a Thanksgiving Service for the artist, at the Chapel at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, on September 28.

10 years ago Office of the Prime Minister

PHOTOS: Cecil Cooper Laid to Rest

10 years ago National Security and Peace

Security Minister Calls on Jamaicans to Remain Calm

Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, is calling on Jamaicans to remain calm in light of the recent flare-up of violence in St. James. He said panic and knee-jerk responses cannot and will not solve the country’s crime problem. The Minister was speaking in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, September 28. He said the Government condemns the action...

10 years ago National Security and Peace

Security Minister Announces Medium-Term Measures to Fight Crime

Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, has announced several medium-term measures to assist in the reduction of criminal activities, in light of the recent upsurge in violence in St. James. In an address to the House of Representatives on September 28, the Minister said two Coast Guard bases will be established in western Jamaica – one in Savanna-la-Mar and...

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), greets Acting Executive Director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), Carole Martine-Johnson (left), during the BGLC’s Gaming Industry Summit at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston on Thursday, September 22. Mr. Shaw was the keynote speaker at the event, which was held under the theme ‘Facing the Challenges. Navigating the Future’. Looking on is BGLC Chairman, Clovis Metcalfe.

10 years ago Finance & Public Service

Development of First Integrated Resort Begins Early 2017

Work to undertake Jamaica’s first integrated resort development, incorporating casino gaming, is expected to commence in early 2017. This has been disclosed by Finance and the Public Service Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, who said the development is being carried out by one of the two investors for whom integrated resort development orders were approved by the previous administration in 2015....

St. Andrew Primary School students Abigail Daley (left) and Raheem Vassell, read material outlining some of the services provided by the Ministry of Justice, during a sensitisation session held at the Ministry’s Constant Spring Road offices in Kingston on Tuesday, September 27. (File)

10 years ago Justice

Collective National Approach Needed to Solve Problems – Justice Minister

Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says a collective national approach is needed to address the challenges facing Jamaica. Mr. Chuck says this requires persons to be proactive by thinking “outside the box” to find solutions. The Minister was speaking at a sensitisation session for Justices of the Peace (JPs), teachers, members of the clergy, students and residents of several communities...