'Teach young to value farming'
WESTERN BUREAU: ANDREW MORALES, agri-processor and managing director of West Best Foods in Darliston, Westmoreland, says the island's agricultural educational institutions must facilitate the required shift in perception and cultural practices...

Jamaicans in US called to diaspora conference
THE EMBASSY of Jamaica in Washington has heightened its outreach efforts to the Jamaican community in the United States in preparation for the Second Conference on the Jamaican Diaspora. The Conference, which will be staged in Kingston...

Church group sending goodwill team to Cuba
GRACE MISSIONARY Church a local assembly of the Missionary Church Association of Jamaica, in collaboration with other denominations islandwide is in the process of organising a goodwill tour of Cuba entitled 'To Cuba with Love'.

Chapelton - 'Ghost Town' in Clarendon
NOW, BEING chased around a building by a bunch of potato-wielding women old enough to be my grandmother is not exactly how I planned to spend my Friday afternoon. Come to think of it, it may have been the realisation of a bone-chilling...

Linstead police seize third illegal weapon
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: THE LINSTEAD Police in St Catherine have seized their third illegal weapon from the hands of criminals since the start of the year. In the latest incident, a man was taken into custody...

European cruise vessel pays visit to Portland
PORTLAND: CRUISE VESSEL, Minerva II, visited Port Antonio for the first time, when it docked at the Ken Wright Shipping Pier during inclement weather about 6:30 a.m. yesterday.