The Agro-Investment Corporation (Agro-Invest) is encouraging young farmers, aged 18 to 35, to join the Youth in Agriculture Programme. The initiative, which was established in 2017, aims to foster the development of youth working in the agriculture sector by providing them with resources and expertise. Marketing and Communications Manager at Agro-Invest, Alecia Brown-Forbes, says the programme is a partnership involving...

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry or Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Everald Warmington, says more than $168 million will be spent to improve infrastructure in Central Manchester. The Minister said $60 million will be spent on repairing the Williamsfield to Cumberland road, Royal Flat to Old England road, and the Mandeville to Rudd’s Corner road. He revealed the...

Jamaica has received 200,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine from the Government of Canada. The shipment arrived last week (August 26) at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. Speaking during a press conference at the airport, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Leslie Campbell, said Jamaica was appreciative...

The bid submission deadline for Phase 1 of the Greater Bernard Lodge development project has been extended to September 14. For this bid submission, the administrators of the Greater Bernard Lodge Development Master Plan, invite qualified developers to participate in a competitive divestment process for land within the development area. Housing and agriculture will be equally prioritised under the Greater...

The Agro-Investment Corporation (AgroInvest) is urging Jamaicans who own 30 acres of land or more to consider leasing their properties for agricultural production. This would be facilitated through the Agriculture Landowner Match Programme, which began in May of last year. Marketing and Communications Manager at Agro-Invest, Alecia Brown-Forbes, speaking in a recent interview with JIS News, said the programme has...

Registration for participation in the Seventh Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (RP21) will resume by September 5. The Regional Platform, which was slated to be held July 8 to 10, 2020 in Montego Bay, Jamaica, had to be postponed due to the global health pandemic. The event will now be hosted virtually from...

The National Water Commission (NWC) is advising residents of St. Thomas, that its Customer Census Mapping Project will be moving into several communities across the parish, starting September 2021. The Customer Census Mapping Project involves NWC field representative's carrying out, door-to-door survey of existing and potential customers, as well as network mapping utilizing global positioning system (GPS) devices.    The digital...