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Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has called for the establishment of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) - compatible agricultural development fund, to facilitate modernisation and re-tooling of the sector. This call follows a meeting last week, which the Minister chaired, with the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), as part of the eighth Caribbean Week of Agriculture, held...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, is soliciting proposals and comments from public and private sector interests, to inform Jamaica's position in preparation for negotiation of a new Free Trade and Development Agreement, between CARICOM and Canada. This was disclosed by Senior Director of the Foreign Trade Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Marcia...

Plans are in high gear to observe World Food Day, on October 16, at the Manchester High School, under the theme 'World Food Security: the challenges of Climate Change and Bio-energy'. A number of activities have been planned, to drive home the need to ensure Jamaica's food security in the context of the impact of climate change and bio-energy, according...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, has commended the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), on the launch of the Revised System of National Accounts and the Jamaica Industrial Classification 2005, noting that they provide vital statistical data, necessary to access where the country is going in order to set targets and to measure performance against those targets. Speaking at the launch this...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, this afternoon instructed the Task Force on Child Abuse Prevention, to move immediately to implement the short term initiatives recommended by the group, to address the crisis of abuse and violence against children. The task force met this afternoon (Oct 14) at Jamaica House, with Prime Minister Golding, Information, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister, Olivia 'Babsy'...

The Gustav Relief Fund, got another boost recently with a donation of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000), made by the National Council of Indian Culture in Jamaica. The presentation was made by Chairman of the Council, Mr. Vishwanauth Tolan, to Minister of State for Project Implementation and Service Delivery, Daryl Vaz who is co-ordinating the Gustav Relief Fund. Mr. Tolan...

Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, along with Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr Kenneth Baugh, and Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Karl Samuda, this morning (Oct 13) met with a delegation from the United Kingdom's (UK) Department for International Development (DFID) at Jamaica House. The delegation was led by the UK's Minister of State for...

The 17th annual conference of the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), concluded at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay St. James on Friday (October 10), with participants expressing satisfaction that the event achieved its objective. President of the National Water Commission (NWC), E.G. Hunter, told JIS News, that the main focus, that of identifying new...

Upwards of the next 12 months, residents from communities in St. Elizabeth are expected to benefit from a number of water schemes being developed in sections of the parish. Water and Housing Minister, Dr. Horace Chang, advised that several projects are currently at varying stages of completion, while contracts are to be signed for the development and improvement of others....

Four students of Jamaican heritage attending universities within the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area in the United States of America (USA), are the recipients of the second Professor Gordon Shirley Book Scholarship Award. They are Nicole Adair, Mary Chambers and Duane McLarty of Howard University and Sharak Stephenson of Virginia International University. All four awardees achieved a 3.0 grade average and...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Senator Warren Newby, has reiterated the need to utilise culture and the arts, in as many ways as possible, to engender a peaceful society. This, he adds, is in order to ensure that persons undertake "peaceful solutions in all conflicts, rather than the aggressive and physical solution so often...

Citizens are being reminded that they ought not to be turned away from any police station they attend to report incidents, no matter where they occur. "Police personnel are required by law to accept reports of incidents within and outside the station's operational boundaries," Head of the Constabulary Communications Network (CCN), Karl Angell, told JIS News in an interview. The...