Sales Education Consultant for Promethean, South Florida and the Caribbean, Amanda Leich (left), looks on as Titchfield High School students, Zerena Davis (right) and Sherona Kirkland, use the company’s ActivPanel Interactive Display, which was handed over to the institution in Portland on June 29.

Chairman of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation and Mayor of Falmouth, Councillor Collen Gager, is urging residents and the business community to partner with the Corporation to preserve the town’s Georgian tourism product. In his wide-ranging address at his Mayor’s Forum in Water Square on June 28, Mayor Gager called for citizens to buy into the vision to make Falmouth the...

Some 30 farmers in South St. Elizabeth, who suffered severe losses during recent heavy rains, have received essential inputs and supplies to assist in the recovery effort. The items, which were handed over at the Bull Savannah Church of God of Prophecy in the parish on Thursday (June 29), included seeds, irrigation supplies, fertilisers, chemicals, farm tools, among other things....

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras will be installed along the Northern Coastal Highway between Ocho Rios and Discovery Bay in St. Ann under JamaicaEye. In making the disclosure, Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr Horace Chang, said the cameras, which will be strategically positioned, will serve as a robust crime-fighting tool and enhance public safety and security. “We are looking at...

The United Kingdom (UK) business community is being encouraged to look to Jamaica for business opportunities. State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, who met with business interests at the Jamaican High Commission in London recently, said he noted that the country is open for trade and investment. Touting the advantages, he said...

Jamaica’s economy grew by 4.2 per cent during the first quarter of the calendar year from January to March 2023. Data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) indicates that this outturn was spurred by 5.4 per cent growth in the Services Industry and one per cent in the Goods Producing Industry. STATIN, in a statement, said that all industries,...

Jamaica has called for increased action to help small-scale food producers implement effective adaptation practices to strengthen resilience and reduce their vulnerability to climate change. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, the Hon. Floyd Green, in making the call at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) High-Level Ministerial Event in Rome on Thursday (June 29), said that resource constraints have...