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June 2017
 

08 June 2017

$118m Allocated for Farmers Affected by Recent Flood Rains

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 08 Jun 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda has announced that $118m dollars has been made available to farmers affected by heavy rains last month. Over 10,000 farmers were affected by the May rains, with losses amounting to an estimated $794m. Speaking at the Launch of the Denbigh Agricultural Industrial and Food Show at Hi- Pro in White Marl St. Catherine this morning, Minister Samuda noted that $18m was recently made available to assist farmers, however he said a further $100m has been allocated. He said the Agriculture Ministry and the Rural Agricultural...


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Project manager, Social Enterprise Boost Initiative (SEBI), Opal White (left); and private sector development specialist, World Bank, Elaine Tinsley (right), show director general in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vivian Brown, a clutch bag (among other items) made by Superior Craft and More, owned and operated by a collective of 16 blind Jamaicans, under the SEBI programme. The occasion was the Social Enterprise 101 Business Model seminar at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

Industry Ministry says social enterprises critical for growth

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 08 Jun 2017    communications   
Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr. Vivian Brown, says that social enterprises in Jamaica are now becoming critical agents for growth and development. Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives, and whose surpluses are reinvested in their business or the community. Their primary mission is to solve social, economic or environmental problems at community or national level through effective and ethical business practices. They have the dual responsibility of creating social value and ensuring financial viability...


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Denbigh 65 Launch

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 08 Jun 2017    communications   
Hon Karl Samuda (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, launches Denbigh 65 with the cutting of a cake on June 7 at White Marl in St. Catherine along with (from left) Norman Grant, President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary, and Christopher Levy, President and CEO of the Jamaica Broilers Group.


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Welcome to the official website of the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce.

The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce is described as Jamaica's "Business Ministry." It's mandate is to lead the development of policies that will create growth and jobs, while achieving social inclusion and consumer protection. The Ministry, working its stakeholders is primarily responsible for business policy development, monitoring and evaluation, while giving direction and oversight to a cluster of implementing departments and agencies.

We have, therefore, placed much energy and enthusiasm into the development of this website to provide timely information on the Ministry, our agencies and programmes.

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