2 Men Die in Motor Vehicle Crash in St Catherine | Egg Shortage | Roads in Chapelton & Trout Hall

good afternoon and welcome to the midday news here's what we have in the bulletin egg production on the decline Area 1 Police and Educators collaborate to reduce School violence and in sports hands of parchment and Russell Russelle Clayton out of Brussels Diamond League I'm Kalisha Williams and here are the details president of the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association Mark Campbell is reporting that egg production in the country post burial has been reduced by 25% he says hurricane burial caused significant trauma to the chickens which to date are yet to produce any eggs more details in this report consumers could start seeing less eggs on Supermarket shelves as Egg Farmers struggle to get some of their layers affected by Hurricane Barrel to produce the farmers say while they did not sustain physical damage to their Farms during Barrel their chickens suffered from the trauma Mark Campbell is the owner of our farm in jilani we breathe at the time a sigh of relief believing that all we had to do now was to get ourselves in order so that the birds get back into top production and we had estimated at the time that the trauma and distress brought on the birds by the storm that it would have taken us period of about 21 days that's the usual turnaround period the veteran farmer says the time has elapsed and the birds have not returned to Peak production they're taking a long time so the actual production of eggs in the country is down by between 20 and 30% so you can say an average of 25% Campbell says he and other farmers are now relying heavily on pulet Farmers he says so far one pulet farmer has promised to flood the national flock with 150,000 pullets between the August to November period a pullet is a young hen that is under the age of one and has not started laying eggs as yet we have given up looking for these birds that went through the storm and are over a year old we have now written them off as being unable to come back into production uh in sufficient quantities that will satisfy the market Christa Campbell TVJ News and the Jamaica agricultural Commodities regulatory Authority jakra says the coffee industry seemed to have suffered more losses than originally thought from Hurrican Barrel acting director General wean Hunter gave the update during the distribution of chemicals and fertilizer to affected farmers in Bango Ridge Portland on Wednesday this crop here we would see a reduction in in production and that is because of the rains last October November where where we saw that we that the sector would lose approximately 50,000 boxes and then with all the berries that fall off the trees during arriane burial period of time we expect a further a further reduction for their part some farmers are not pleased it took the authorities so long to reach out to them with assistance and some say it's inadequate when compared to the huge losses theyve suffered a farmer predicts it will take between a year and a half to 2 years to rebound like like mix CR like banana planting mean everything just as time [Music] ready strling little bag of fertiliz can't help the farmer the man one or two root that is different but the man F big like we one little bag of fertiliz to other the news now mbj limited the operator of ssta International Airport in Montego Bay St James has secured an ambulance that will be permanently based at the facility to respond to emergencies the ambulance was provided by hospiten a private facility with which mbj airports limited has a contractual arrangement for the provision of that service it comes as a review of emergency protocols takes place Following last Wednesday's incident in which a passenger collapsed and died at the airport the lack of an on-site ambulance was one of the concerns that had been raised president and CEO of the airport authority of Jamaica odley dric says he was informed yesterday that the medical facility at the airport will now have this service given the review to take place of the whole protocols that are involved that already in response to this particular concern that the airport operator has already altered the arrangement with the ambulance providers and have in fact now secured permanent placement of the ambulance at the airport during operational hours more details this afternoon on the tragic crash in Muk spening Catherine which claimed the lives of two men along the main road Wednesday night at least one motorist believes a gaping hole in the road may have led to the fatal crash with the p man dangerous man the road tax yeah and the whole a very dangerous every yeah so know when swing there are now urgent appeals for the road to be fixed reports are that the men were traveling in a nestan motor car when it made a sudden swerve to the right and crashed into a Land Cruiser TVJ News was informed that the Nissan was badly damaged and the fire department had to cut the men from the vehicle both men are said to be mechanics they have been identified as James Morgan and Nicholas Cur with just days into the new school term acting commissioner in charge of Area 1 Glenford Miller is expressing concern about violence in several schools including those in St James hanova trone and Westland to this end the police are partnering with principles to implement initiatives aimed at addressing the issue the initiative focuses on teaching students how to resolve disputes specifically gang violence the ACP emphasized that these efforts are designed to prevent students from a life of crime what we have done we have actually collaborated with um the principles and the the dean of disciplines at these um schools and of our commun Safety and Security persons from the headquarters here and within the divisions and um the school resources officers would have actually deployed them in these various schools to actually give support to the school to actually ensure that we can actually reduce the acts of violence within um these schools so it's actually about um changing the behavior of some of these um young persons additionally police youth clubs will be established as part of the strategy we have the police um our police youth clubs we have police youth clubs within the various communities and we went further we having police youth clubs within schools this is one of the latest initiative that would have launched from sometime last year where um we our police officers actually go into these schools and actually to form youth clubs to actually curb some of the behaviors of um of our young men and of our young men and our even our young girls within um the various schools and still in area one acting commissioner Glenford Miller is reporting a decrease in murders since the beginning of the year he said the division recovered 138 firearms and 2,36 79 rounds of ammunition Miller urges gang members in the area to avoid confrontation with the police and instead surrender peacefully era one has actually recovered 138 Firearms 138 and a total of 2,379 assaulted ammunition for the gangsters those of those persons who consider themselves gangsters across ER one and it's given us um problems and that person sometime live in fear as a result of them I am saying to them using this media when my police officers come to Opera in you or the crimes that you would have committed please don't challenge the police surrender and it's time for a break stay with us more stories when we come back welcome back to the midday news and thanks for staying with us continuing the news now Rehabilitation of the roadway from chapleton to Trout Hall in claron is expected to begin this month ppv operators have been complaining about the state of the road and the lack of political representation member of Parliament and minister of Works Robert Morgan is assuring the public it will soon be fixed jamea mland reports is itough as rough as it can get a public passenger vehicle operator in trout Hall a rural community in Clon lamenting the poor road condition motorist and commuters argue that Decades of neglect has caused the deterioration if we can do something easy pressure from caution tapes tied to bamboos placed at a collapsed section of the roadway by residents warned motorists of the danger in a bit to avoid the PO holes motorists swerve to the left but too much could mean going over a gully there was an accident years ago luckily no one was seriously injured Member of Parliament Robert Morgan told the TVJ News that the work to fix the road will begin before the end of September Mr Morgan who is also a minister of work says it's part of the $3 billion reach program announced by prime minister Andrew holes he says the roadway between Clarendon College to penance bridge and from Penance bridge to Trout Hall will be completed by October meanwhile repairs to the roadway between guinep tree and woods will also begin in October in neighboring Northwest Clarendon motorists had similar concerns they say driving on the main road from Thompson toown to frankfield makes them dizzy not because of the terrain but navigating the maze like potholes very stressing man cuz when we go night drop sleep the food TVJ News reached out to MP Philip henriquez but we did not receive a response motorists did say however that they've seen preparation work being done in the area we see them scrap Road at the moment so don't know if have some J Midland TVJ News the National Water Commission recently carried out a joint disconnection operation in the Wallen area in Linate St Catherine this followed the failure of customers to make payments leading to a total of 30 disconnections including nine for illegal connections revenue recovery manager for St Katherine and Clarendon Colleen Williams champany says one of the illegal connections removed included a disconnection at a poultry and pig farm one of the illegal connections that we removed was that of a a 1-in connection that was serving a poultry and a pig farm and another half inch illegal connection that was serving a farm a vegetable farm which in fact when we got there the spr the sprinklers sorry the sprinklers were in full blast Mrs Williams champeny added that this is the beginning of operations within the area as illegal connections can result in prosecution we will be continuing our efforts in this area and in the general space of linstead uan there's a lot of work there to be done and we will not relent we're just encouraging persons to come in and to reach out to the NWC you know we have payment arrangements we have a number of options that persons can capitalize on rather than stealing the water it's time now for the business minute Jamaica earned $399.58 bulletin says this was up from the 35.2 million us earned for January to April 2023 earnings from other manufactured products sent overseas amounted to 19.4 million us an increase of 0.8% for the same period in 2023 the category earned the country 88.8 million us this was due primarily to higher exports of refined petroleum products which grew by 2.2% these exports were valued at$ 17.5 million a massive strike at boing is looming as 30,000 boying workers in Washington state prepare to vote Thursday on a tentative Union deal this could stop airplane production and deal a blow to the US economy on Sunday the machinists Union and the company reached a tentative agreement on a 4-year contract to avoid a walk out Union leadership recommend amends the machinists approved the contract but union members are not happy with the terms boing did not agree to their request for a 40% increase and Boeing's refusal to restore a pension plan that was eliminated in 2014 is a major sticking point union members have launched a series of protests this week outside of boing's plant if they reject the deal they could vote to go on a strike early Friday Rael Porto TVJ News we now go to the top Regional and international stories in the region Tobago dores I'm ninski Robinson we now head to a quick 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