The Pesticides Control Authority (PCA) is participating in a major initiative to eliminate obsolete pesticides from Jamaica and promote safety islandwide. Speaking with JIS News, Registrar at the PCA, Michael...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that critical issues relating to trade policies, to which Jamaica is a party, need to be addressed. He added that...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the Clarendon-based Ebony Park Academy, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Wednesday (September 15), expected to boost output in the livestock industry and...

Director General of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), Rear Admiral Peter Brady is calling on the "brightest and best" young Jamaicans to consider a career in seafaring. The MAJ...

Work to effect repairs on some 10 kilometres of roadway, linking the farming communities of Riversdale, Pear Tree Grove, Top Mountain and their environs in North East St. Catherine, is...

The official cause of death of the two Jamaican farm workers in Canada should be known on September 15, when the coroner releases the autopsy report. Autopsies on both bodies...

About 100 farmers in the communities of Top Mountain, Guys Hill and their environs in North East St. Catherine, are to benefit from a $47 million European Union (EU) funded...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, says he is encouraged by the progress made by farmers participating in the Top Mountain Protected Agriculture project in North East St. Catherine....

Farmers in the Hounslow area of St. Elizabeth, are to benefit from an 8,800 square foot post-harvest and packaging facility, with the signing of a lease agreement between the Ministry...

Seven ornamental fish farmers in August Town, St. Andrew, were today (September 8), presented with farm systems to start their businesses. Ornamental fish farmers, Rowe Archibald (right) and Rohan Miles...

'Ackee and Saltfish' was the theme for the 'Jamaican Twist' band, at this year's Notting Hill Carnival in London, United Kingdom (UK) last week-end. The carnival band, which was once...