Jamaican farm worker killed in ‘work-related accident’ in Canada

  NEWYou can now listen to Talkupditingsdem News articles! The Ministry of Labour and Social Security on Tuesday expressed sadness at the passing of farm worker, Garvin Yapp, who participated in the Ministry’s Farm Work Programme in Canada. Yapp, 57, hails from Tangle River District in St James. The ministry said in a release that…

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JP Farms now begins banana exports to the island of Trinidad

Jamaica’s largest commercial banana farm, JP Farms, has shipped its first container of Jamaican-grown bananas to CARICOM neighbour, the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. After a series of discussions with its Trinidad-based customer in June, JP Farms shipped the first container of over 19,000 kilograms of JP bananas in late July. Sales Manager at…

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A young boy has gone missing from his summer school

  An Ananda Alert has been activated for 14-year-old K’Issac Chambers of Jerico, Hanover, and Cliffton Boy’s Home, who has been missing since Tuesday, August 9. He is of dark complexion, slim build and about 144 centimetres (4 feet 9 inches) tall. Reports from the Darliston police are that about 2pm, K’Issac was at summer…

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Jamaicas Emancipation Day

 Emancipation Day was reinstated as a Public Holiday by Prime Minister PJ Patterson in Jamaica in 1998 after a six-year campaign led by the late Professor Rex Nettleford. It was discontinued as a holiday when Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962. However, at that time, it was not an official national holiday. The holiday…

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