 Under the theme Agro Eco-Tourism, HEART Trust/NTA will showcase its commitment to agriculture at the annual JAS Denbigh Agricultural Festival this year. The HEART booth will feature products and hospitality services from its Ebony Park trainees as well as an interactive experience with several Try-A-Skill activities.
Products to be displayed will include decorative plants grown in the ornamental farming program, a wide variety of food crops, and pedigree livestock such as goats and cows.
Trainees specializing in animal rearing will display their techniques in showing and controlling their
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More than 1,300 residents of the West Portland community of Fruitfulvale are now benefitting from the rehabilitated Bath Springs Road that was officially opened on Monday by the Honourable Robert Montague, State Minister with responsibility for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Completed within the set time of three months and within budget of J$7.4M, by WADMAR Construction Limited, the works included the entire renovation of 650M of road way and the widening of the road to 7M allowing it to be accessible to pedestrians and two way traffic.
 Kingston, Jamaica – June 23,2010: Singer and Songwriter Cherine will be singing a slightly different tune this weekend. On Saturday June 26th Cherine, who takes on the hat of Team Captian , will mobilize a passionate and driven group of young Dancehall- SOULdiers (members of Team Dancehall Soul), to help raise funds for cancer awareness, research and outreach at Jamaica Cancer Society’s Relay For Life.
With several activities planned, Anderson is excited about the prospects. All proceeds of Cherine’s EP’s “The Introduction-Dubstyle” sold at the event will go towards the outreach efforts.
No stranger to giving back to her community, Cherine started her own Reach-One Child Foundation in 2003 and has been helping need-based students with supplies and partial tuition scholarships. Working with the cancer society is a first for Anderson.
 KINGSTON – June 16, 2010 – Known globally for our athletic prowess, Jamaica’s sporting fraternity enjoys immense fame particularly in the areas of track & field, football, cricket and netball. We’ve also come to earn worldwide respect for our unlikely forays into bobsledding, dogsled racing and skiing. Despite our fiercely competitive spirit, however, only a handful of sports boast island wide popularity and are viewed as an integral part of our cultural fabric. Sporting activities not readily associated with our national identity are oftentimes met by resistance and in some cases even ridicule.
The new President of the recently formed Jamaica Wrestling Federation (JWF), Kevin Wallen, is ready to break that mold by raising awareness about wrestling and dispelling commonly held misconceptions about the sport. “When people hear the term ‘wrestling’, they tend to think of Hulk Hogan, the WWE and staged fighting,” he said.
 KINGSTON – June 7, 2010 – ‘Real Man Things’, a progressive talk show dealing with male issues, will host its inaugural ‘Real Man Things Award’ on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 20, during its weekly broadcast at 9 pm on Power 106, the Real Man Things Awardee will be recognised and presented with prizes courtesy of Churches Co-operative Credit Union (CCCU).
Real Man Things radio programme is a weekly one hour series broadcast on national radio station, Power 106 FM on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. It has been packaged especially for men, and its themes and topics are chosen to impact pervasive irresponsible, dysfunctional behaviour among Jamaican males. Real Man Things occupies a unique space in the local radio programmes market, not only due to its specific positioning among males, but due to the value added dimension brought by its moderator, Kevin Wallen, a renowned motivational speaker and organizer with impressive experience in community radio and work among incarcerated men.
 CSJP, Monday, May 3, 2010: For unemployed young people from vulnerable and volatile communities served by the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) of the Ministry of National Security, there is a chance for a job and work experience through CSJP’s Employment Internship Programme (EIP).
The EIP, launched in 2008, engages partners in the public and private sector to employ youth for a set period after which they may be retained for fulltime employment.
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