August 11, 2025 Blue Mountain coffee is an internationally renowned variety of Arabica coffee that is produced in Jamaica. One focus of Jamaica’s newly-established mutation breeding programme is to counter the harmful effect of a coffee leaf rust, a fungal disease that has ravaged coffee plants across the Caribbean since an initial outbreak in 2012, … Continue reading New Gamma Irradiator Helps Protect Blue Mountain Coffee and Address Threats to Crop Yields and Public Health in Jamaica
Category: Nuclear Technology
Prime Minister Andrew Holness engages with Steven Whittingham, chairman of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) at the opening of the 20th staging of the JSE Regional Conference on Investments and Capital Markets. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) January 22, 2025 By Karena Bennett KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has called for bold and innovative solutions … Continue reading Jamaica must capitalise on nuclear energy — Holness
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (third left, backrow), and Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport Minister, Hon. Daryl Vaz (left, seated), observe as Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications andtransport, Olive Wilson Cross (second left, seated), Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Limited, Jack Craig (second right, seated), and … Continue reading Jamaica Gov’t Signs MOU to Advance Nuclear Technologies Adoption