Vernamfield development coming to life
The Vernamfield aerodrome in South West Clarendon symbolically received its first aircraft last Monday when a helicopter with a team led by international business mogul, Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman of ...
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Shaw says plans are coming to boost school-feeding programme
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, says formalising a national school-feeding programme using local produce, will ensure improved health for children and a stable ...
Shaw commits to development of dairy industry
The Government is assuring dairy farmers that it is committed to the growth and development of the industry, and wants to see milk production restored to the high levels experienced in the mid-1980s t...
JAS president issues ominous pesticide warning
Amid issuing a major technical warning for the sector, President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Lenworth Fulton, has charged that under his watch he will guard against the organisation bei...
Clarke set to open Budget Debate on Thursday
Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr Nigel Clarke is scheduled to make his maiden budget presentation on Thursday when he opens the 2019-2020 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives....
CARICOM among four major markets being targeted by Jamaica
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Audley Shaw, says CARICOM is among four major markets being targeted under the Government’s thrust to attain higher levels of economic growth th...
Gov't moves closer to accessing funds in dormant accounts - Shaw
The government is one step closer to being able to access approximately $50 billion in dormant bank accounts in Jamaica, with the establishment of a consultancy group to advise the administration on t...
Shaw not in a fight with US regulations hurting local cannabis sector
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Audley Shaw, has expressed his unwillingness to employ illegitimate means to bypass the American government’s banking arrangements which is i...
Fond recollections of Lynvale Bloomfield; by-election looms
Jamaicans have reacted with shock at the news of the brutal murder of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastern Portland, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Dr Lynvale Bloomfield. The medical doct...
Year in Review: the big winners and losers in politics
As any other year, 2018 was one in which some politicians shone and others had their lights dimmed. There were also retirements, as in the case of the veteran Derrick Smith who bowed out of represe...