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Hundreds are expected to attend the 11th staging of the Minard Livestock Show and Beef Festival in Brown's Town, St. Ann, on Thursday, November 13. The calendar event, which is promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Jamaica Livestock Association, the Agricultural Development Corporation, and the Goat Breeders Society of Jamaica, will be hosted under the theme: 'Exploiting Livestock for...

Organisations and churches have been showing their support for the Indigent Housing Scheme through contributions, with a major donation coming from communications giant, Digicel Jamaica, which has pledged $500,000. The Scheme was launched in July by Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Local Government Reform, Robert Montague. In July of this year, churches...

Cabinet has approved a proposal for the strategic repositioning of the Ministry of Agriculture, through the organisational restructuring of several entities, which fall under its jurisdiction. The Agricultural Credit Board (ACB), Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC), Agri-business Council [of Jamaica] (ABC), Marketing and Credit Division (MACD), Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), and Agricultural Services and Productive Projects Fund Ltd, are the...

Jamaica is projected to save some US$92 million on its energy bill annually, as a result of the introduction of E10 blended gasolene, Group Managing Director of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), Dr. Ruth Potopsingh says. Speaking with JIS News, following the product's launch at the Petcom Portmore service station in St. Catherine on Saturday (Nov. 1), Dr. Potopsingh...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia, Dr. Jaime Bermudez Merizalde, today (November 4), signed an agreement on exploration activities in the Joint Regime Area, established by the Maritime Delimitation, Treaty between Jamaica and Colombia. The agreement, which was signed at the closing ceremony of the Sixth...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, is assuring Jamaicans that the Government would be doubling its efforts, to address the spate of abductions and attacks on the nation's women and children. "We are committed to carrying out a multifaceted approach that will bring about a solution. The Prime Minister has put together...

Residents of the Westmoreland Golden Age Home, are now living in a more comfortable environment, as the refurbished female ward was officially opened on November 3. The project was undertaken by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund, at a cost of approximately $20 million. Addressing the opening ceremony, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the CHASE Fund, W....

The Honourable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, has said that Byron Balfour, the late journalist and public relations practitioner, had been a true professional, practising his craft with admirable competence and flair. Minister Grange's comment comes in the wake of Mr. Balfour's death yesterday morning. "He was well-known inside and outside of the communication fraternity,...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, has congratulated Barack Obama, on his remarkable victory in the US Presidential elections. In his congratulations to President-elect Obama, on being elected as the 44th President of the United States, Mr. Golding said Obama's victory is a testimony to the values of America's national motto- E Pluribus Unum (One from many), which has enforced the power...

"Jamaica, and indeed the world, has lost another great music pioneer with the passing this morning of Byron Lee, one of the greatest band leaders ever to grace the entertainment stages of the world", says Prime Minister, Bruce Golding. Mr. Golding said Byron Lee had dedicated 50-years of his life, bringing the best of Jamaica's music to the world and...

The Honourable Olivia "Babsy" Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports with responsibility for Entertainment, has said that she is deeply saddened by the passing of Jamaican music pioneer and bandleader extraordinaire, Byron Lee, who died this morning. Minister Grange said that undoubtedly Jamaica has lost another of its "great sons of our music and culture." She said that...

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Arthur Williams, has said that the continued implementation of social preventive measures is vital to the development of the country. These measures, he added, will assist greatly with reducing the crime rate in the island. "The solution to the rampant crime and violence is not going to rest only with...