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Project Manager, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Vanessa Oates (left); Executive Director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Dr. Velton Gooden (third left); Project Focal Point, BSJ, Tafara Smith (centre); and Project Donor Representative from the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), Pablo Jenkins, with hot pepper farmers holding packages of farming equipment and other implements during the ‘Improving Phytosanitary, Food Safety and Market Access Opportunities along the Hot Pepper Value Chain in Jamaica’ project handover ceremony, on Monday (April 28), at the Kingston offices of theBSJ.
Project Manager, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Vanessa Oates (left); Executive Director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Dr. Velton Gooden (third left); Project Focal Point, BSJ, Tafara Smith (centre); and Project Donor Representative from the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), Pablo Jenkins, with hot pepper farmers holding packages of farming equipment and other implements during the ‘Improving Phytosanitary, Food Safety and Market Access Opportunities along the Hot Pepper Value Chain in Jamaica’ project handover ceremony, on Monday (April 28), at the Kingston offices of theBSJ.

Project to Increase Export Earnings from Hot Pepper

By: Rochelle Williams, April 28, 2025
Increased export earnings from hot pepper are among the projected outcomes from the soon-to-be concluded ‘Improving Phytosanitary, Food Safety and Market Access Opportunities along the Hot Pepper Value Chain in...
Chairman of the Westmoreland 4-H Parish Advisory Council, Pius Lacan, addresses the launch of phase two of the Westmoreland Primary Schools’ Container Gardening Project at Icon Importers and Distributors Limited in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, on Friday, April 25.

Westmoreland Primary Schools Container Gardening Project Enters Second Phase

By: Okoye Henry, April 27, 2025
Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon. Daryl Vaz, delivers the main address at the launch of local Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, Vox Technology Limited, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston on Friday (April 25).

Jamaica Must Not Be Left Behind in AI – Minister Vaz

By: Donique Weston, April 26, 2025

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