Jamaica 4-H Club Covering new ground in agriculture
The Jamaica 4-H Club was established in 1940. Its mandate at the outset was to train young farmers good farming techniques, and to adequately prepare them for work in the agricultural sector.

FOCUS ON HIV/AIDS - Living with HIV and having sex
WESTERN BUREAU: Janice, 43, has been HIV positive for twelve years. She contracted the virus through having unprotected sex with a former lover. Contracting HIV has changed Janice's life in many ways but it has not affected her sex life.

Champion farmer to be picked Sunday
Twenty four farmers representing all parishes will be vying for the National Champion Farmer title, which will be awarded on Sunday 6 at the Presidential Pavilion at this year's Denbigh Agricultural and.

Expect more crocodiles during hurricane season
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is reminding the public that with the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season now under way, crocodile sightings will become more frequent.

'Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) can maintain its election mode'
Beaming from what it says was its successful five-day campaign tour across sections of the island, the hierarchy of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says the party's well-lubricated election machinery is able to sustain a vibrant momentum for as long as...

Textbook cut a backward step, says Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) head
Outgoing president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Ruel Reid, has described the Government's decision to cut back on the provision of technical and vocational textbooks for secondary schools as a backward step.

Court cuts libel award against CVM
CVM Television Ltd. was successful in its appeal yesterday when the Court of Appeal reduced the jury's award of $20.8 million to $3.5 million for defamation to Detective Sergeant Fabian Tewari. The award was made in May 2003....

Noel Holmes Hospital gets supplies
Lucea, Hanover: The Toronto-based Cousins Cove Community Association has donated three years supply of medical equipment to the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea. According to chairperson of the association, Angela Scarlett, the group, which was formed...

Rose Hall man off murder conviction
The killer of 12-year-old Kimone Lewis, of Rose Hall district, St. Catherine, is still at large as the Court of Appeal on Monday freed the man who was sentenced to hang for the crime. The girl who was sent on an errand about 7.45 a.m.