PORT MARIA, St Mary Farmers in St. Mary are slated to benefit from a training seminar to prepare them to participate in this year's St. Mary Agricultural Expo.
The seminar, which will be held next Wednesday at the Orange River Agricultural Station in Highgate, is being organised by the St. Mary branch of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) in collaboration with the St. Mary office of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA).
- JIS
FALMOUTH, Trelawny
Christopher Smith, otherwise called 'Tough Youth', of Race Course in Falmouth, was shot and killed by the police in a shoot-out on Wednesday.
Police report that they surprised three men on a veranda in Race Course during an operation. On seeing the police, the men opened fire, the police returned the fire and one man was killed while the others escaped in the mangroves. The police believe they are nursing gunshot wounds.
A 9mm pistol with 20 live rounds was taken from the man who was pronounced dead at the Falmouth Hospital. Residents in the sleepy town were rejoicing as they claimed to be under siege from gangs of gun-toting youth.
- Contributed
SPANISH TOWN, ST Catherine
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) representative to Jamaica, Dr. Dunstan Campbell, has charged the Government to place greater focus on rural development, in order to reduce poverty and address rural-urban drift.
"Jamaica must work towards an aggressive policy of looking at rural development," he said, while addressing the launch of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs Rabbit Project on Tuesday at Rose Hall 4-H Training Centre in St. Catherine.
Stating that a multi-sectoral approach was critical for the success and sustainability of rural development policies, Dr. Campbell said government stakeholders must collaborate on key issues that impact on the lives of people in rural communities.
- JIS
PORT MARIA, St Mary
The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is currently implementing a greenhouse farming project in the Highgate area of St. Mary to boost agricultural production and promote the use of this technology among farmers in the parish.
Victor Edwards, RADA parish manager for St. Mary, said the project is being developed at a cost of $880,000, and that the agency was working closely with the farmers to ensure the success of the initiative.
- JIS
BOSCOBEL, St Mary
In the midst of the Boscobel Primary School in St. Mary dealing with a lackof electricity for over three months due to the school being partially demolished by fire, they have been recent recipients of books under the kind donations of Pansie Harris-Gayle from Boscobel, St. Mary, and Carol Oakley a television producer in London, England.
Mrs. Harris-Gayle told The Gleaner that she and her friend from England became interested in making a valuable contribution to the lives of Jamaican children, and so they both decided that the best way to do so was to donate books to schools. So far, contributions have been made to more than 10 schools, mainly in the parish of St. Mary.
- Lisia Lynch
OCHO RIOS, St Ann
The National Works Agency will begin a multimillion-dollar road repair programme in the parishes of St. Ann and St. Catherine on Tuesday. Under the programme, which is expected to be completed in six weeks, the Steer Town to Moneague roadway that is heavily used by trucks and the Fern Gully road in St. Ann will be repaired.
In St. Catherine, the detour route between Spanish Town, and Moneague, through Worthy Park, Thydixon and Camperdown will also be repaired.
- NWA
