Jamaica Producers (JP) says it is taking legal action following the discovery of bananas purporting to be “Jamaican Bananas” and bearing fake JP branding being sold on Canadian supermarket shelves.

The Long Pond sugar factory, a once-thriving hub of Jamaica’s sugar industry, has been put up for sale. The property, located in Trelawny, spans 16.37 hectares (40 acres) and is being marketed as a ...

The partnering of the Farm Up Jamaica Caribbean Farmers Market and coming Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival is a match made in Jamaica, Queens, to benefit agriculture and youth in Jamaica. The popular ...

Montreal, Canada – Jamaica’s labour minister has rejected complaints from Jamaican farm workers who say they face conditions akin to “systematic slavery” in Canada, saying he observed “no evidence of ...

With famers geting ready to put crops into fields and orchardists preparing for the growing season, immigration reform picks up as a topic across much of Eastern Washington. As immigration ...

SCHOHARIE – Willis Newman learned the ropes of farming as a child on his grandfather’s sugarcane farm in Jamaica. There was just something about long days spent tending to the land that made him feel ...

Jamaica has appointed a “special fact-finding team” to investigate the working conditions of Jamaicans employed on Canadian farms, after workers in the province of Ontario said last month that they ...