Archive for November 21st, 2011

CHINA Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has bagged its fourth major project in the region since it set up shop in Jamaica last year, with the signing of an agreement to expand the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana last Friday.

The construction company said that, as with the infrastructural projects that it is undertaking in Jamaica, the China Exim Bank will fund the construction of a modern terminal building and the extension of the runway by 1,066 metres to ...

Over the next three years, Jamaica will plant eight thousand acres of rice, the biggest step taken by the industry since Government embarked on a programme to revive its production.

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Robert Montague said that the Rice Growers Association (RGA) has informed him that 250 acres will be planted by the end of November and will be ready for harvesting by March.