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Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has said that despite the many challenges the agricultural sector faced during the 2004/2005 period the industry recovered well to demonstrate sustainable growth. Making his contribution to the 2005/06 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives yesterday (June 7), the Minister said that the sector continued to have a positive impact on the economy, "as...

Forty-five students from several schools in eastern Portland were presented with school bags donated by the Bob Marley Foundation in New York, during a special handing over ceremony held at the Port Antonio Primary School on Friday, June 3. Making the presentation was Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd, who is also...

Forty-five students from several schools in eastern Portland were presented with school bags donated by the Bob Marley Foundation in New York, during a special handing over ceremony held at the Port Antonio Primary School on Friday, June 3. Making the presentation was Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Dr. Donald Rhodd, who is also...

The Ministry of Land and Environment is to develop a sustained programme to dispose of used lead acid batteries in an environmentally sound manner. Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Land and Environment, has said that the Ministry and several public and private sector entities were currently determining ways to bring on stream control mechanisms and relevant regulations...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through its Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) will be allocating up to US$50,000 towards community based environment projects. Depending on the magnitude of the projects, organizations will receive a maximum of US$50,000 or a minimum of US$20,000. This was announced at the launch of the GEF SGP at the Knutsford Court...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Delano Franklyn has put forward several recommendations to delegates attending the 35th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS), that were necessary for the strengthening of democracies. Addressing delegates at the Plenary Session yesterday (June 6), at the Broward Convention Centre in Fort Lauderdale, Senator...

The Ministry of Land and Environment is to develop a sustained programme to dispose of used lead acid batteries in an environmentally sound manner. Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Land and Environment, has said that the Ministry and several public and private sector entities were currently determining ways to bring on stream control mechanisms and relevant regulations...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through its Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) will be allocating up to US$50,000 towards community based environment projects. Depending on the magnitude of the projects, organizations will receive a maximum of US$50,000 or a minimum of US$20,000. This was announced at the launch of the GEF SGP at the Knutsford Court...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Delano Franklyn has put forward several recommendations to delegates attending the 35th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS), that were necessary for the strengthening of democracies. Addressing delegates at the Plenary Session yesterday (June 6), at the Broward Convention Centre in Fort Lauderdale, Senator...

Education stakeholders in Clarendon met last week to discuss the National Task Force on Education report, which came out of the roundtable discussions held across the island last year. In her address at the function held at the Hotel Versalles in May Pen, Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry Wilson said that the discussion session was among several...

National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips and Opposition Spokesman on National Security, Derrick Smith are to name a small team to meet with private sector representative, Peter Moses to review and revise the code of conduct, which emanated from the May 25 Emancipation Declaration, led by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). The declaration, which among other things, calls...

The Government of Jamaica will be taking steps to have the country removed from the watch list issued by the United States State Department, naming Jamaica among 14 countries that have failed to stop the 'trafficking of persons'. The United States last Friday (June 3) cited 14 nations, including Jamaica, of failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave...