Jamaica is well on its way to operating the first and only dedicated bamboo market pulp mill in the Western Hemisphere. Bamboo Bioproducts Ltd (BBP) is advancing its investment in local bamboo with plans to build on lands in Frome, Westmoreland, and will focus on pulp for paper production. The company projects to spend approximately […]

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left), converses with Member of Parliament for Eastern St. Thomas, Dr. Fenton Ferguson (centre), and Chairman of the All-Island Cane Farmers’ Association, Ambassador Derrick Heaven, at a meeting with farmers on Friday (July 3), at the St. Thomas Technical High […]

The community of Clifton in St. Catherine has established a farm on more than seven acres of land donated by the Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings Limited (SCJH). Residents of the area, mainly females, are cultivating okra, corn, tomato, lettuce and other crops. They will use earnings from the venture to help young single mothers, […]

Structures illegally erected on lands adjoining the Clifton community in St. Catherine, which have been captured by criminal gangs, will be demolished starting Thursday (Oct.6). Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness made the disclosure while providing an update on the Bernard Lodge Development Plan in the House of Representatives on October 5. “This will […]

The Government in an effort to end a prolonged land dispute is making available over 1,000 acres of land in eastern St Thomas to small farmers, most of whom were displaced by the closure of sugar factories. Managing director of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings Limited Joseph Shoucair has confirmed that the government-owned […]

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says, to date, 142 farmers have been orderly and formally settled on plots of land as part of the Bernard Lodge Development Plan in St Catherine. Providing an update on the plan in the House of Representatives on October 5, Holness informed that SCJ Holdings has paid more than $650 million […]

  The Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings Limited has been instructed to form a lease management unit that will better manage arrangements made for the lease of agricultural lands in the Greater Bernard Lodge Development. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the disclosure during a press conference at SCJ Holdings Limited in […]

The Greater Bernard Lodge (GBL) Project seeks to create the ideal municipality where there exists for citizens; a high standard of living, sound environmental management, and affordable quality housing, which all create a sustainable environment. The Government of Jamaica (GoJ), through the SCJH, intends to sell discrete Mixed-Use, Light-Industry and Residential development blocks via a […]