September 18, 2022 (JIS)
Cattle farmers in sections of Clarendon are to receive free tagging of animals, as part of a direct intervention by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to combat praedial larceny.
In a statement on Thursday (September 15), Portfolio Minister, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., decried the recent increase in reports of larceny of cattle in the Kensington/Alexandria area of the parish.
“This threat to the livelihood of our hard-working farmers and the agricultural sector will not be tolerated, and we will deploy all the available...