Former Manager for the Rural Agricultural Development Authority’s (RADA) St. Thomas Parish Office, Caswell Glover, is enjoying a fruitful retirement, thanks to his investments in a farm enterprise. Mr. Glover, who owns G-Lovers Orchard in Rozelle, St Thomas, has utilised seven of his eight acres of farmland to grow a variety of fruits, which he harvests, processes, packages and sells....

Technology is contributing significantly to the impressive gains made in the birth registration process at the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), even though there have been many modifications over the years. The compulsory registration of all birth, marriage, stillbirth and death records was introduced in Jamaica in 1878, followed a year later by the establishment of the Registrar General's Department (RGD),...

The Hope Royal Botanical Gardens in St. Andrew, commonly called Hope Gardens, is being hailed as a natural treasure that should be protected and preserved for the benefit of generations to come. The over 200-acre property, which was part of a sugar plantation and the original water supply source for Kingston, is an important historical site, with buildings and artefacts...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday (July 19) approved a measure to declare Rio Cobre an irrigation area. The Rio Cobre (Irrigation Area) Order, 2022 will expand the locations across the island where the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) is providing irrigation services. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. said that increasing irrigation areas is part of measures...

Principals, teachers and students of schools that participated in the recently concluded Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Inter-School Spelling Bee Competition are singing high praises for the initiative. The Spelling Bee Competition is an initiative under phase two of the Integrated Community Development Project (ICPD II), being funded by the Government of Jamaica. It was geared towards supporting literacy development...

Principals of 51 primary and infant schools across the island that have benefited from a donation of water-storage tanks are expressing gratitude for the contribution. The 100 black tanks, each with capacity for 1,000 gallons of water, were donated by the United States (US) Southern Humanitarian Command Program (USSHCP), through the National Education Trust (NET) in the Ministry of Education...

The National Business Portal (NBP) has made doing business in Jamaica much easier by allowing businesses and individuals to go online and follow, in a simplified way, the steps involved in conducting business in Jamaica. In an interview with JIS News, Manager for Policy and Business Advocacy at Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Kelli-Dawn Hamilton, said the idea of a business...

As the August 6 Independence celebrations kick into high gear, individuals born the same year Jamaica was declared an autonomous nation from the United Kingdom are expressing a sense of pride at the country’s achievements over the past 60 years. Ushered into the world on June 10, 1962, in Montego Bay, St. James, Educator, Donna Gaynor-Lyn Fatt says the gains...

Farmers are hailing the Content greenhouse project in Williamsfield, Manchester, for enabling them to increase production and earnings, while adding economic value to the community. The project, which got under way in 2017, involves the revitalisation of former bauxite lands for agriculture production. Forty-three farmers are engaged in cultivating crops such as cucumber, sweet potato, cabbage, lettuce, hot pepper in...