Stakeholders in the fisheries sector will soon see a major reduction in the turnaround time for the processing of licence and registration applications. The Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry is working with the Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU) in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to overhaul the existing manual process involved in providing licences and registration to stakeholders, and...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is assuring stakeholders in the aquaculture and industrial areas of the fisheries sector that they will benefit from the new licensing and registration system. The new web-based system will allow stakeholders to apply for licensing and registration documentation online as well as improve the existing manual procedures involved in those processes. Agriculture and Fisheries...

Stakeholders in the fisheries sector can expect a reduction in the processing time for licensing and registration applications, under the developing fisheries licensing and registration system. The Government through the Finance Ministry’s Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU), working with the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, is upgrading the manual processes involved in providing licensing and registration to stakeholders in the fisheries sector....

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, said the ongoing Fisheries Licensing and Registration System Project will improve the efficiency of service delivery in the sector. The project, which is being facilitated by the Transformation Implementation Unit, (TIU) will strengthen the work of the newly established National Fisheries Authority (NFA). Minister Green, who was speaking in a recent JIS...

More than 200 elderly persons and shut-ins from Middle Quarters and its environs in St. Elizabeth were treated to a warm meal and care packages recently by the Middle Quarters Community Development Committee (CDC).  President of the Middle Quarters CDC, Stashauna Burnett, told JIS News that the initiative was in response to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on...

The Government is providing approximately $70 million in loan funding assistance for the island’s dairy farmers.  Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, says the funds are being provided through the Jamaica Dairy Development Board’s (JDDB) Dairy Concessionary Loan Programme.  “Through this financial scheme, farmers can improve the quality of [their livestock and] increase [their] herd numbers,” Mr. Green said.  He was speaking during a ceremony for the hand-over of silage to the St. Elizabeth Dairy Development Co-operative, on Friday (July 23), at...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, is encouraging farmers to utilise more climate-smart technology and practices in order to minimise crop loss from more frequent and extreme weather events.   He said that as a small island developing state, Jamaica is very susceptible to the effects of climate change.   “We have seen it; no one has to convince us in agriculture about the realities of the longer dry periods, shorter and more intense rainy periods...