it's Thursday December 12 I'm Herman
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at one spot media.com trade
opportunities between Kenya and Jamaica
are opening up
that's according to prime minister
Andrew Holness who was addressing the
Jamaican diaspora in Kenya earlier this
week mr. horner said the two countries
have not been utilizing the
opportunities they have TVJ similar
Pullen tells us more trade and commerce
technology and innovation as well as
education are just a few of the areas
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says
greater work is needed to strengthen
ties between Kenya and Jamaica the
Kenyan market is a large market the
population is about 35 closer to 50
million of course the Jamaican
populations 2.7 million closer to 3
million in fact you know there are more
Jamaican living overseas than living in
the country but there are great
possibilities
Prime Minister Holness as part of the
plan is also to see more Kenyans coming
to Jamaica
however with climate change being a
global issue there is a concern about
how it's affecting tourism in Jamaica
which is why mr. Holness says the
government is now doing work to develop
resilience in that area in fact and here
as well with my Minister of Tourism and
he has been working very closely with
your Minister of Tourism because we both
have tourism as an important plank you
know in our economy but there are many
risks to tourism climate change being
the biggest risks and therefore we have
to work together to figure out how we're
going to make that industry resilient
which is why mr. Holness says the
government is now doing some work to
develop resilience in fact area
meanwhile the Prime Minister charged the
Jamaican daya
Barratt to start figuring out ways in
which it can further strengthen ties
between the two countries
call up your family in Jamaica your
friends in Jamaica your business people
in Jamaica to say hey there are
opportunities for investment and trade
in Kenya come and see what is in Kenya
and for you as well here to say to
Kenyan businessmen hey there are
opportunities in Jamaica go and see what
is happening in Jamaica Jamila Poulin
TVJ News national security minister dr.
Horace Chang is again insisting that the
government is committed to the fight
against crime
his reassurance comes on the heels of
Tuesday night's shooting in Dobis and
Catherine where nine persons were shot
for fatally TV Jason masters reports the
government continues to face pressure to
deal with a country spiraling crime rate
the criticism comes following the
shooting of nine persons for fatally
dobersen cathode on Tuesday night an
area which is under a state of emergency
SOE but speaking in st. James yesterday
national security minister dr. Horace
Chang says his ministry is not letting
up in the crime fight we are working
hard at bring it on the console it's not
an easy task
he says the crime situation was a load
to get out of control due to the neglect
of the police force since becoming an
independent nation by both
administration's you call the police
neck when you fall in ODIs and Jesus and
you never search again for the rest of
that so when you have a crime we call
the police and you expect them to have
cars you never buy the mini yes when I'm
to stay in the polling station but the
policies are linking at the caste in
there you expect them to communicate
when you destroy the radio system and
that the police
dr. Chang also noted that a greater
attention would have to be given to
inner city communities as those
settlements are major contributors to
the country's crime problem we have a
lot of our inner city community
deteriorate squatting is an illegal
activity it generates an illegal
ecosystem with generation
legal activities invented leads to
killing and murder because then in the
videos in those communities they find
their own way to make money and they do
creatively and they make plenty of it
and they buy side million homes to buy
cars and every day and their peers and
the bank owns machine masters TVJ news a
member of the young professional arm of
the People's National Party the Patriots
was fatally shot along Chesterfield
Drive in st. Andrew last night he has
been identified as 44 year old Kevin
Brown of MacIntyre Villa in Kingston mr.
Brown was also a justice of the peace
it's reported that about 8:45 mr. Brown
was seen running along Chesterfield
Drive crying for help he had several
wounds mr. Brown was pronounced dead at
hospital the Agriculture Minister
ministry is this afternoon being called
upon to pay greater attention to the
country's coffee industry this as there
has been a fallen coffee exports and a
decline in the price it fetches we have
more in this report since this year the
coffee exporters Association had been
calling for a fund to be established to
ease the fallout in the sector that call
is now being echoed by the associations
head Norman grant speaking at the
inaugural awards banquet
mr. grant called for some 150 million
dollars to be allocated from the budget
of the Agriculture Ministry to the
coffee farming sector annually he says
this would help with input costs for
coffee farmers and the loss of revenue
due to a shortfall in the export of
coffee mr. grant believes this should be
in place onto the sector rebounds it is
important because a coffee sector have
over 5,000 farmers supports a hundred
and two thousand farm families it
generates 15 million u.s. dollars in
export down from the 25 million some
four years ago
with this kind of investment minister we
could see export from the sector climb
in over the next five years to over 15
million dollars mr. grant is also
calling for a cess
green bean coffee imports as well as
assess on roasting beans to create a
double taxation regime he says this will
benefit the industry by using the funds
raised to provide input and price
support for local coffee farmers but
Agriculture Minister Ali Shah is
questioning why there is such a decline
in the local production of coffee while
globally the sector is booming how can
the coffee industry be growing globally
but in Jamaica that has the finest
coffee in the world is in the clients
that don't make sense at all mr. Shah
also noted that the government is
seeking to improve on the quality of
coffee beans by improving the
infrastructure in areas where it is
grown this will be done through a 100
million u.s. dollar grant from the
Chinese government broad infrastructure
access infrastructure so that we can
build out better and higher quality
production of Blue Mountain coffee we're
working on that project right now Prince
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welcome back continuing the news the
Consumer Affairs Commission CAC is
encouraging shoppers particularly online
shoppers to conduct their business with
caution when doing transactions in the
Yuletide season speaking at a recent
think-tank session information
technology manager the CAC Andrew Evy
warned online users to look out for
fraudulent emails DVDs prints more tells
us more with increased internet access
and online shipping companies many
Jamaicans are engaging in online
shopping it is why the Consumer Affairs
Commission CAC
is warning online shoppers to be aware
of different email scams I team manager
at the CAC under Evy says most persons
for pre to email phishing scams this is
where someone will send you an email
with a with a with a deal that is almost
irresistible
to pass up we need to be very cautious
when we come across unsolicited email
from sources that we are not sure giving
you a deal that is almost irresistible
to pasta he adds that impersonation is
also another type of email scam used to
solicit money from unsuspecting online
users particularly corporate users for
example let me send an email to the
accountant to say hey transfer the email
seem to be coming from say the CEO or
are not a manager and requesting a
transfer of funds to an account so the
accountant or the person responsible for
that transfer me very well consider that
email legitimate and execute the
transfer not knowing that it's actually
coming from somebody else or not from
the company therefore he's advising
individuals to install antivirus
software onto their computers to protect
themselves as well as their information
there are number of free antivirus
offers out here that we're encouraging
persons to install one of them that I
use is AVG and a free version is very
good and it gives you real-time
information about any possible threats
that are occurring on a computer Prince
more TVJ news chief executive office of
the Child Protection and Family Services
Agency GPFS a Rosalee gage gray believes
more psychosocial care is needed in
children's home at a recent fire drill
at a mustard seed children's home mrs.
gage gray highlighted that psychosocial
care is critical for improving
resilience in children we find that an
environment that is conducive to good
learning to good recreation to
rehabilitation is going to be very
important so we have been working to not
only do the physical infrastructure but
to build a capacity and resilience of
the children that we have so that
kind him to a place where they can
understand the issue that they have gone
through and how they are gonna advance
and get better I think they go along
three persons who are injured and taken
to hospital following a motor vehicle
crash in Port Maria Santa Mira this
morning according to reports the three
individuals were traveling towards Port
Maria shortly after five o'clock the
driver reportedly lost control of the
vehicle which then slammed into a
building the extent of their injuries is
not known at this time
a major cleanup operation is now
underway in the sandy gully in Saint
Andrew Member of Parliament for Saint
Andrew northwestern dr. Nigel Clark says
the work will be extended to other
sections of the gully like Washington
Boulevard and Perkins Boulevard dr.
Clark says the cleanup was needed as
there were trees as high as 20 feet
contributing to environmental problems
the debris and the trees and a large
vegetation leads to flooding at times
and is a security risk and sometimes a
site where mosquitoes can breed
I am devil to try to do something about
it and since that time I've been in
discussions with the NWA and it was very
happy that the work has now begun and
this work will take place over over the
next two weeks despite earning
opportunities in research product
development and other forms of
investment Jamaica remains poor it's a
concern agriculture minister oddly Shaw
is again raising as he believes
Jamaica's resources are underutilized
we're too blessed to be support it's
unacceptable 101 known medicinal plants
in the world 51 of them grow in Jamaica
and 33 of them no 33 percent of that are
indigenous to Jamaica cannot be found
anywhere else in the world mr. Shaw was
speaking at the official groundbreaking
ceremony for organic growth holding
Innes and James yesterday the company is
seeking to become the lead exporter of
CBD wellness products in the world that
cetera is poised to be a 20 billion US
dollar industry by 2022 but even with
that goal in mind mr. Shaw is calling
for some level of caution while Jamaica
explores these opportunities we are
mindful that we must send ever to
protect our local individual strains and
the Jamaican brand we go now to sports a
late strike from veteran relief Thomas
earned the leaders water hose a 1-1 draw
with our net gardens in their Wednesday
night red striped Premier League fixture
at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex
Paul Wilson opened the scoring for our
net Gardens after 60 minutes however
with four minutes of regular time to
play Thomas brought Waterhouse level to
take last year's runner-up
to 34 points six ahead of Mount Pleasant
Academy and seven a drift of Arnett
Gardens meanwhile Harborview jumped from
ninth to fifth after a meeting very
United to nil at the Harborview stadium
norman Campbell got both goes for the
stars of the east in the 28th and 58
minutes and that's the midday news I'm
Herman Greene please join us at 7:00 for
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