Consistent with its strategy to diversify fuel types and produce electricity at a cheaper cost, the Government will be using petcoke to fuel a 100 mega watt (MW) plant at...

President of the Japanese Ueshima Coffee Company (UCC), Tatsushi Ueshima, has expressed satisfaction with the measures put in place by the Coffee Industry Board (CIB) to ensure that only the...

By the end of this year, ethanol blended fuel will be available in service stations for the motoring public. "As a first step we will replace 10 per cent gasoline...

Minister of Energy, Clive Mullings, has announced that procurement permits have been approved for the expansion of the Wigton wind farm with an additional 18 megawatts. He also disclosed that...

A new Chairman and President for the state-run Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) are expected to be named soon, Transport and Works Minister, Michael Henry has announced. Speaking at Tuesday's...

Minister of State with responsibility for project implementation and service delivery in the Office of the Prime Minister, Daryl Vaz, will on Thursday (July 3) launch the fourth biennial Public...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has emphasized that in any regulation regarding the operations of credit unions, the Government would not seek to convert them into any other kind of institution....

There is no substitute for energy. The whole edifice of modern society is built on it. It is not "just another commodity" but the precondition of all commodities, a basic...

Former Mayor of Montego Bay, Arthur Gilchrist, died yesterday (June 30), in the Cornwall Regional Hospital, after a long illness. The management and staff of the St. James Parish Council...

Farmers in Bigwoods, St. Elizabeth, whose crops were destroyed by a fire earlier this year, are recovering. Natalie Gordon, a young female farmer in the area, told JIS News that...

Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman has praised the pioneering Jamaicans who were among the West Indians who arrived in the United Kingdom on board the Empire...