AS global sugar prices continue to falter, it is no small wonder that the pages of local newspapers have been awash with speculation on the outlook for Jamaica's own sugar cane industry ...

AS the world celebrated International Rum Day on August 16, at least one distillery on the island is highlighting that more sugar cane is needed for production. Managing director at Worthy Park E ...

Kingston – Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Franklyn Witter, says the sugar industry in Jamaica requires an ...

This beloved snack is thought to have originated in Jamaica with the appearance of Cornish sailors who introduced the ...

The worker tells a jury he sometimes made only $30 in eight hours but agrees that sometimes he got more than $100. A Jamaican sugar cane cutter testified Thursday that the number of rows he cut ...

Jamaica possessed superb growing conditions for sugar cane, and by 1513, Spanish farmers in the island’s earliest European settlement, Sevilla la Nueva, tended fields bristling with the green ...

Straight from Jamaica, one North Shore gardener has brought a bit of the Caribbean with him. ... Owner of Jamaica sugar-cane plantation is tilling soil in West Brighton (with photo gallery, video) ...

In its heyday in the 1680s, sugar cane occupied more than 50,000 acres in Barbados – half the island. By 1980, only 6,480 acres were planted in cane. That acreage is down to 4,050.

Hurricane Gustav devastated several sugar cane fields in eastern and southern Jamaica, likely causing a significant drop in revenues for the crop year that starts in December, an industry official ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica's government signed over its three remaining sugar estates to a Chinese company in a privatization deal announced Monday. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW Read Today's ...

(Jamaica Gleaner) The National Environment and Planning Agency has issued an ultimatum to the sugar industry to stop burning sugar cane by 2014, but sugar. Submit. Subscribe for just 30¢ a day; ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican sugar-cane growers strongly denounced a government plan to close two state-owned sugar factories and lay off workers, saying it will ruin the island’s already ...