Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Monday | February 16, 2009
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Farmers burning with rage - Record canefield fires may force some to call it quits
WESTERN BUREAU: Many stakeholders on Westmoreland's sugar cane belt are expressing fear that the industry could collapse within a matter of months, leaving thousands displaced, because of a record number of cane fields being burnt to the ground....

Advantage General launches new policy
Advantage General Insurance has launched a new motor-vehicle policy aimed at reducing disagreements over the value of damage sustained during road traffic accidents.The product was launched last week at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St Andrew...

All fishermen to be licensed - Tufton
WESTERN BUREAU: The Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Agriculture is to undertake a massive all-island drive to have all fishermen registered and licensed.The campaign is to commence by next year as part of a move to have the more than 30,000 fisherfolk registered...

LIME blocks on Flow barred
Supreme Court judge Courtney Daye has granted an order barring LIME (formerly Cable & Wireless) from disrupting, reducing or terminating interconnectivity access between its networks and those of telecommunications rival Flow.


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