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Chief Technical Director, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Stephen Wedderburn, addresses participants at the 10th annual Small Business Exposition and Conference hosted by the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on May 11.

Mr. Dwayne Mitchell, Director of Sales and Marketing, Jamsew Machine Sales and Services Ltd. (right), explains to Mr. Stephen Wedderburn, Chief Technical Director, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the intricacies of an embroidery machine. Jamsew Machines Sales & Services Ltd. was an exhibitor at the JBDC’s 10th annual Small Business Expo & Conference, held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on May 11.

Hon Karl Samuda (2nd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; and Her Excellency Malgorzata Wasilewska, Head of Delegation of the European Union in Jamaica; sign consultancy agreement for the financial and economic model for the sugar cane industry to include production of ethanol; and revision of sugar cane payment arrangement for Jamaica at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on May 10. At left is Permanent Secretary Donovan Stanberry, while standing (from left) are Deputy High Commissioner to Jamaica Nicholas Astbury; British High Commission; Keleen Young-Grandison, Head of the Sugar Transformation Unit; Stefano Cilli, agricultural attaché at the European Union Delegation in Jamaica; consultants Gordon Alert and Andreas Bockermann; and Josep María Bosch Bess, newly designated ambassador of Spain.