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Hon Beryl Rochester, Custos Rotulorum of St. Elizabeth, presents the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation Ltd’s The Best of St. Bess Special Award to Joseph Gyles, Chief Executive Officer of the National Irrigation Commission (NIC), for dedicated and outstanding service in the field of agricultural services. At right is Eldon Nembhard of the NIC St Elizabeth office. The occasion was the Homecoming Awards Brunch held in St. Elizabeth on December 1, 2019 where the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, Turner’s Innovations Limited and outstanding farmer Desmond Whitely were also specially...

Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown presents the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation Ltd’s The Best of St. Bess Golden Award to Desmond Whitely for dedicated and outstanding service in the field of farming. The occasion was the Homecoming Awards Brunch held in St. Elizabeth on December 1, 2019 where the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, Turner’s Innovations Limited and the National Irrigation Commission were also specially recognised.

Interim Chairman of the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation, Dr. Patrick Dallas (right), converses with (from left) George Watson, Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Victor Cummings, Project Manager, Lakes Pen Agri-Ventures Ltd, at the Homecoming Awards Brunch in St. Elizabeth on December 1, 2019. Held under the theme Celebrating the Best of St. Bess…saluting our farmers, the foundation gave special recognition to outstanding institutions in the agricultural sector within the parish – Rural Agricultural...

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (left), is in discussion with Assessment Monitoring Officer, at the Ebony Park HEART Academy in Clarendon, Shanieka Worrie (right), at a job fair hosted by the institution in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) and the Rural Agricultural Authority (RADA), at Pawsey Park in Lionel Town, Clarendon on November 29. Seated from second left are HEART Trust/NTA Volunteers, Anesa Whittingham and Shelbe Graham. The...

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (right) gives a listening ear to Mayor of May Pen, Winston Maragh (centre), at a job fair hosted by the HEART/Trust NTA in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) and the Rural Agricultural Authority (RADA), at Pawsey Park in Lionel Town, Clarendon on November 29. The job fair sought to target displaced sugar workers, their families, and community members from the Monymusk area and is a planned strategy by the...