Minister Hutchinson tours St. Mary
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Cyril Chambers (right), farmer, in Dean Pen, St. Mary, shows carrots and sweet corn reaped from his farm to the Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (centre), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, on July 26. At left is President of the Elliot Farmers Community Group Marvalee Russell. The occasion was a meeting to discuss a proposal by the group for assistance in setting up an incubator project at the premises of the former Rose Bank Primary School to include a workshop to manufacture bamboo furniture and craft and greenhouse farming, among other things.
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