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February 2019
 

07 February 2019

Hon. Audley Shaw and Managing Director Marlene Street-Forrest view turnip on sale

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 07 Feb 2019    communications   
From left, Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, view turnip on sale by a vendor at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea

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 07 Feb 2019    communications   
Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Antoinette McKain, Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation, Steven Gooden, CEO, NCB Capital Markets and Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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Minister Shaw discusses castor bean at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea event

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 07 Feb 2019    communications   
Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses castor bean with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and Michael Pryce, Acting Chief Executive Officer at the Agro-Invest Corporation (AIC), during a tour of the AIC’s booth at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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Hon. Audley Shaw greets Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), greets Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe use.


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Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence in dialogue with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    communications   
Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence (right), in dialogue with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to...


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Minister Shaw converses with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), converses with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda,at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe use.


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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon Audley Shaw (right), purchases carrots from farmer Ricky Robinson of Bull Savannah, St Elizabeth, at the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019. The event was one of the JSE’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.

Use agriculture to grow the economy, says Shaw

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 07 Feb 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Audley Shaw says the country needs to use agriculture to grow the economy. In doing so, Jamaica could create wealth from the ground up, utilising creative financing with the assistance of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE). Minister Shaw made these comments while delivering the keynote address at the “Market meets Market on the Sea” event, held February 7, 2019 at the waterfront in downtown Kingston. “We cannot grow the economy,” Minister Shaw said, “without growing agriculture.” In this regard, the Minister said, linkages and...


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