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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, will travel to Israel, November 23 to 28, 2018, on a mission to explore opportunities for greater collaboration on several areas. Minister Shaw, along with an accompanying delegation of public and private sector members, will meet with Israel’s Minister of Commerce to discuss prospectsContinue reading “Minister Shaw Travels to Israel”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, is calling on manufacturers to include more local ingredients in the manufacturing of their products. He was speaking at a Knowledge Forum organised by Red Stripe under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value ‘, held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, UWI,Continue reading “Agri minister calls for increased use of local ingredients in manufacturing”

Dr. Nickeshia Reid (2nd right) of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), discusses cassava varieties on display with Ricardo Nuncio, Managing Director of Red Stripe, at Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum, which was organised under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value Chain, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. AndrewContinue reading “Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum”

Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets Gillian Hyde of the Jamaica National Group at Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum, which was organised under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value Chain, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew on November 21, 2018. Others, from left, areContinue reading “Minister Shaw greets Gillian Hyde of the Jamaica National Group at Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum”

Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, poses with extension officers attached to Red Stripe’s Grow Jamaica project at Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum, which was organised under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value Chain, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew on November 21, 2018.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, says that micro, small and medium-sized (MSME) businesses present one of the greatest areas of growth potential for Jamaica. He noted that it is for this reason that the Government has placed significant and strategic focus on the MSME sector, in recognition of the roleContinue reading “MSMEs present great growth potential, says Minister Shaw”

One hundred and nineteen employees of the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) Limited, an agency of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, were on Wednesday, November 14, honoured for their years of service at a Long Service Anniversary Luncheon and Awards Banquet held, at the Golf View Hotel, Mandeville. Chief Technical Director, Special ProjectsContinue reading “Irrigation Commission honours 119 employees for years of service”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, has commended Salada Foods Jamaica for its $200-m injection into the coffee industry with the advance purchase of 25,000 boxes of local coffee cherries. Noting the downturn in the sale of coffee berries, resulting from a high inventory of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee in theContinue reading “Shaw lauds Salada’s $200-m coffee initiative”

Hon Audley Shaw (3rd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, shares a light moment with (from left) Allan Rickards, Chairman of the All-Island Cane Farmers’ Association, Phillip Henriques, Chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority, and Lenworth Fulton, President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society. The occasion was the 69th Annual General Meeting of theContinue reading “69th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association”

From left, Badian Handal, of the St. Catherine Cane Farmers’ Association, Derrick Heaven, cane farmer, and Philip Henriques, Chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority, in discussion at the 69th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on November 14, 2018.