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Corporate Communications Manager of the Coffee Industry Board, Arlene Daley, has expressed concern over what she says is the steady decline in coffee production over the past two decades. Speaking at a meeting of the Non-Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative recently hosted at the Kendal Camp and Conference Centre in Manchester, she noted that next to sugar, coffee is the crop...

Fishers at the Lyssons fishing beach in St. Thomas are the beneficiaries of fishing gear valued at more than $3 million from the St. Catherine-based charity organization, Food for the Poor. The equipment which includes boats, engines, a newly constructed gear shed and an assortment of accessories were handed over in a brief ceremony on Friday (May 30) at the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw has urged public servants to work together to provide good service and maintain standards of which the country can be proud. "We have a challenge in our sphere of activity - in order for us to move forward, everything connects, the quality of public service connects to a more productive society,...

The Manchester Parish Council in collaboration with the Parish Health Department will on Monday, June 9 host a four-hour seminar, at the Cecil Charlton Hall to update persons providing beauty services on the public health regulations. The seminar, which is slated to start at 8:30 a.m., will see presenters highlighting the importance of operators of barber shops and beauty salons...

With the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season set to begin tomorrow (June 1) the St. Mary Parish Council has been conducting a drain cleaning programme throughout the parish to reduce the possibility of flooding. Speaking with JIS News, Disaster Coordinator for St. Mary, Yolande Williams said the programme began in April and is being conducted in all 13 parish council divisions....

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is appealing to the private sector to contribute to the National Disaster Insurance Fund to increase it from $150 million to $30 billion. Director General of ODPEM, Ronald Jackson made the appeal yesterday (May 30) at the press launch of Disaster Preparedness Month which is observed in June. "My biggest concern...

The Montego Bay Metro Bus Service is to be expanded to facilitate improved and efficient service across western Jamaica, Transport and Works Minister, Michael Henry has announced. Speaking in the 2008/09 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (May 28), Mr. Henry said there was a need for the expansion of the state-owned bus service in western Jamaica...

Leader of the Youth Parliament of Jamaica, Tamian Beckford, has said that adults need to invest in young persons to enable them to become more competent in the future. "As a young man who has had a pretty rough time growing up.I am pretty aware of the investments that we need to make or that adults need to make. These...

The Dispute Resolution Foundation of Jamaica (DRF) will be staging its second annual fundraising concert today (June 1) in an effort to improve its training facilities. Featuring the Jamaican Folk Singers, the concert will take place at the Wolmer's Girls School Auditorium, 2 Marescaux Road in Kingston commencing at 5:00 p.m. Tickets cost $1,000 for adults and $500 for children...

The Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation (C-CAM) has received US$30,000 from the UN Global Environment Facility Fund to promote tourism in the Portland Bight area, which encompasses most of plains of South Clarendon, and Hellshire in St. Catherine. Since 1999 the National Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) created the zone as a Protected Area, and in 2004 it delegated management of...

Minister of Health, Rudyard Spencer, has called for an alliance between the health sector and other sectors of the society, pointing out that the issue of healthcare is not the exclusive domain of health professionals. "The health sector must forge and maintain strategic alliances with other sectors such as agriculture, tourism, environment and customs and immigration, to protect the health...

"This is just the beginning of great things to come," Minister of Information, Culture Youth and Sports said of Usain Bolt's spectacular world record run of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York at the Icahn Stadium yesterday. I know that they (the athletes) will grow from strength to strength and do great things in Beijing" Minister...