The Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) is encouraging farmers to join the Excel Farmers Insurance Plus plan. Thomas Mayne, Regional Manager of the JAS, told JIS News that the requirement of...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Jamaica, Mike Conway is confident that the national carrier's 38-year loss cycle will be broken by 2009. This, he says, is achievable under the...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands is reporting that some 1,234 hectares of the projected 1,700 hectares of fruit trees have been planted since the implementation of the Fruit Tree...

Jamaica's agricultural sector is reporting remarkable recovery following the devastation caused by four hurricanes in a two-year period and severe drought prior to that. The sector grew by 19 per...

More than 50,000 diabetics who are registered with the National Health Fund (NHF) are to receive an additional benefit with the introduction of the Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) test kits, which...

The Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show is traditionally known for its display of the very best in local livestock, agricultural and horticultural exhibits from all 14 parishes. However, come August...

Plans are well advanced for the staging of the National Emancipation Vigil and Jubilee Celebrations 2007, to be held at the Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann on July 31....

Fourteen Jamaicans left the island on (July 27), for Japan, where they will be participating in the Jamaica-Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, on a one-year renewable contract. In an...

Controlling ants will be a key feature in the containment of the Pink Hibiscus Mealy Bug in Jamaica, the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands has said. Speaking with JIS News,...

Minister of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Robert Pickersgill on Friday, July 27, officially commissioned the $150 million Hope Bay/St. Margaret's Bay water supply system in Portland into service. The...

Plans are in high gear for the staging of the annual Maidstone Emancipation Fair on the grounds of the Nazareth All-age School in Manchester on Wednesday, August 1. The activity...