good afternoon I am Andrea Chism with the midday news special welcome if
you're watching on one spots media.com the Jamaica agriculture society Jas
wants ten billion dollars injected into the sector the organization says the
money would help farmers to invest in machines to increase output and
consumers would have access to cheaper foods more in this report from TV Jase
Prince Moore president of the Jamaica agricultural society Jas linworth Fulton
says he has a formula to transform the agriculture sector it involves
low-interest loans which in turn would create low-priced foods mr. Fulton said
farmers have been yearning for loans of 4% or lower to invest in machines and
other supplies for their farms and urged the government to answer their call but
where is this money to come from jess is employing the government to establish an
agricultural phone by taking 1% of the imported food items to see this phone he
said the aim is to secure 10 billion dollars for the agriculture sector 5
billion of which would be given to farmers as loans while another 5 billion
would be used to fix markets making local markets more appealing will be
important because he expects more shoppers to flock the markets in search
of food imagine if we could get about 200,000 farmers 100,000 of them to take
or blown of even 1.5 million to 3 million to do their farming that would
be billions of dollars that would help everybody the lending institution the
consumers from more and cheaper food and the country could now stand up and said
we are not signing any more importance today they can't say that because we are
not producing enough in all the areas that we need food for the jas president
Jamaica is 50 years behind its target to create a
modern agriculture sector but in his words machette and forks can't close the
gap therefore his suggestions should be considered Prince more TVJ news this
afternoon the collaborative efforts of a member of parliament two residents a
private sponsor and a charity organisation to help a struggling family
of six which has been living on the substandard conditions we have more from
TV Jays Krista Campbell an old outside kitchen made into a home in Connors in
Catherine for the past year this has been the uncomfortable reality for
single mother of five Julie white she says she was given notice to leave
the place she previously rented so her mother told her she could stay in the
zinc structure but her grandkids ages 16 13 8 - and one-year-old also having to
endure the harsh conditions as their mother Gloria white says she's been
desperately hoping her daughter gets help enough tell me cry but me no
watch'n was a mere crack no flame coming or happy we know happy winds like ocean
I didn't know it is all let me have a catch-up gonna buck the fistina for the
time being we can't get something better in the heartland bad word before no or
net well dear mrs. White's own 2-bedroom house a concrete structure but she
laments that she has limited space herself so her daughter has tried to
make herself and children as comfortable with what they were given as cellphone
their sole means of entertainment in the absence of a television set barons
function as dresses and a sponge mattress on a single bed base completes
the furniture inside one bedroom structure Julie White has added her own
version of a kitchen and bathroom while a tarpaulin acts as the only protection
from the elements she says it's been especially hard for
her teenaged daughter Sunday she'll go by or by the world to go to somebody at
with the wife I've to do our work these are better days of all with signs that
change is coming on Labor Day MP dr. Chris
Tufton through his constituencies building hope unit started work on a new
wooden structure for the family the MP says it's an initiative aimed at helping
improve the lives of struggling residents food for the poor hardware
companies and other residents have also helped nobody is being paid I mean we
provide lunch we provide refreshments but these are citizens who are concerned
about the less fortunate in their community and with the right leadership
with the right coordination they come out and they give support the house is
still not yet complete because of constant rainfall in the area krysta
Campbell TVJ news students at raja clark high in st. elizabeth will now benefit
from a new sixth form block permanent secretary in the education ministry dr.
grace mclean says the move is part of a vision to ensure that 3/6 warm
classrooms will offer seven full years of high school education to students
there are few little aesthetics that we still need to do in terms of ensuring
that the classroom is appropriately painted and so on but I really must
commend all the stakeholders who would have participated in this activity and
would have made it a reality today the new block was constructed at a cost of
1.9 million dollars teachers are frustrated with the government over the
slow pace of fulfilling obligations reached in the 2018 heads of agreement
meeting one such is the program of assigning tablets to teachers immediate
past president of the Jamaica Teachers Association Georgia wore Richards is
calling on the government to fast-track the process
to date we have the teachers have not started to receive the tablets what we
do know that there is a steering committee in place looking at the specs
of these tablet computers etc etc and based on the information we have is that
these tablets will not be ready for distribution until around about January
2020 and the teachers of Jamaica are saying we need the process expedited
mrs. wor Richards also addressed the matter of guidance counselor's in
primary schools it is not all primary school that doesn't have a guidance
counselor it is small primary schools that do not have guidance counselor's at
this time but through our negotiations last year we have arrived at an
agreement where we will have cluster based guidance counselors serving a
cluster of small schools and so that is in train and should be happening shortly
based on what we agreed on out of oil negotiations and it's time
for a break after this we'll have more stories in our midday news
welcome back and we're continuing the news a truck driver is adding to his
blessings as his vehicle crashed into the sea wall along High Street in Black
River Tuesday evening 22 year old Giovanni Johnson was transporting a
truck filled with a sand when the tire blew out causing him to lose control of
the vehicle no one was injured in the incident the national solid waste
management authority NS mm a is working on changing the way Jamaicans dispose
garbage the agency is encouraging people to make compost heaps composting is the
process of recycling various organic materials or the wise regarded as waste
products and producing a soil conditioner which is a rich nourishment
of source or a source nourishment executive director of the NSW MA or
lugod explained that 67% of garbage disposed could be used for soil
nourishment yes Anna Wallace garbage
characterization survey we are wasting a very good resource 67% of what we
currently call it to take to an expose our facility is compostable even the
cotton we knew we the grass are you mow your lawn that shouldn't be bagged up
and put out that could be composed he says composting would cut in half the
number of trucks needed by the solid waste agency public relations specialist
Kimberly Blair says composting is normally done in the backyard but there
are other ways to achieve the same goal you can he was a compost heap if you do
have a backyard we're showing you that you can he was a peel you can use a
compost bin you can dig a hole we'll show you all the different options
available meanwhile mr. Gordon says there is also a threat to landfill space
if action is not taken to reducing the waste sent to locations no matter how
big a landfill is it will run off with your kid put your keep put in so we are
saying and we are appealing to the public to look at those tree R's reduce
reuse and recycle you can reuse what you have it will have to
we throw it now we understand into the landfill and filling up the landfill you
can help us to preserve the environment because when we do run out of landfill
space what we're going to do you have to be looking for other for other options
we have to be looking for other language we do have the space they were speaking
on TV J's smell Jamaica program on Thursday
one man is in police custody after a boat was found with animals at great
bait Raja Beach st. Elizabeth this morning the police say a person saw the
boat on the dock and contacted them the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard was
brought in the vessel searched and iguanas parrots and other animals were
found the boat is as suspected to be from Honduras the captain who is a
Jamaican was taken into custody and the boat was seized the police and the
National Environment and planning agency are investigating and are asking persons
with additional information to contact them in news overseas talks between the
US and Mexico resumed today as both officials both sides try to come to an
agreement on border security we have more from the CNN the u.s. and Mexico
still at a stalemate it's like two trucks on a country road headed straight
at each other one or the other is going to blink President Trump calling on
Mexico to boost its immigration enforcement efforts Mexico
thank you for many many years hundreds of billions of dollars that have been
making an absolute fortune on the United States they have to step up for them to
step up to the plate and perhaps say well we're good to say they could solve
the problem if there's no agreement by Monday a 5% tariff on Mexican goods goes
into effect this is not about tariffs for an economic deal this is saying
we're going to use it as a weapon in foreign policy supporters of the tariff
threats say this addresses the migration issue between the two countries one more
tool to be able to control the flow of illegal immigrants coming across our
southern border critics disagree this is dangerous territory this is not a way to
treat a friend it's not a way to deal with immigration it's not a way to deal
meet the humanitarian needs at the border in across Atlantic tweet
Wednesday mr. Trump said the higher the tariffs go the higher the number of
companies that will move back to the USA but there's still a chance a deal will
be reached before the deadline these tariffs may not have to go into effect
precisely because we have the Mexicans attention and in sports with the
CONCACAF Gold Cup just one week away the record boys scored a morale-boosting one
nil win over hosts the United States in their friendly international and oil
field in Washington DC on Wednesday Shamar Nicholson who came on as a
second-half sub in minute 55 had an immediate impact where the 59th minute
scorching scratch strike this was Nicholson's first goal for
Jamaica at the senior level in his sixth appearance Leon Bailey did not make his
debut for Jamaica after picking up an injury in training Bailey revealed this
in an Instagram post on Wednesday that he vows to be fit and ready for
Jamaica's next game this was also Jamaica's third victory over the United
States at the senior level after previously winning in 2012 and 2015 the
reggae boys will now turn their attention to the CONCACAF Gold Cup they
faced Honduras in their opening game on June 17 at the National Stadium and the
West End is needing 289 runs for victory our 252 for
8:00 at sports time in their ICC World Cup match against Australia at Trent
Bridge she hopes 68 and Nicola sporran 40 are
at the top scorers for the wind is so far a stab at Australia recovered from
38 for 4 to score 288 all out in 49 OVAs Nathan Carlton all top scored with 92
the highest individual score to be at the number 8 batsman at the World Cup
former captain Steve Smith was next best with 73 while Alex curry made 45 Carlos
Brathwaite claimed three 467 while there were two wickets each for Shane Thomas
Sheldon Cottrell and Andre Russell and that's the midday news I'm Andrea
Chisholm join us at seven for the prime time news package on behalf of the news
sports and production teams good afternoon