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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), congratulates entrepreneur Sania McDonald, who registered her business online using the Electronic Business Registration Form, at the COJ’s offices in New Kingston, on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. The COJ is piloting an eBRF, which will allow for Business Name Reservation and Registration. Through thisContinue reading “Hon. Audley Shaw congratulates entrepreneur Sania McDonald”

Registrar, Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ), Judith Ramlogan, welcomes Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, who visited the offices of the COJ in New Kingston, on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. The occasion was to view a live demonstration of registering a business using the Electronic Business Registration Form. The COJ isContinue reading “Registrar Judith Ramlogan welcomes Minister Audley Shaw”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), in dialogue with (from left) Registrar, Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ), Judith Ramlogan; and Permanent Secretary, MICAF, Donovan Stanberry, during a visit to the COJ’s New Kingston offices, on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. The occasion was a visit to the agency to view aContinue reading “Visit to Companies Office of Jamaica”

Hon J.C. Hutchinson (right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in conversation with farmers Everton Barnett (left) and Howard Anderson during a tour of farms at Abbey in St. Thomas on April 10. Seven farmers are currently producing crops such as pepper, onion, pumpkins and Irish potato on approximatelyContinue reading “Minister Hutchinson in conversation with farmers Everton Barnett and Howard Anderson”

Hon J.C. Hutchinson (centre), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, addresses farmers at the Yallahs Agro-Park in St. Thomas on April 10. Others from left are Chief Executive Officer, Peter Thompson, and Bevin Dickenson, Parish Manager, both of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority.

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, has welcomed Red Stripe/Heineken Jamaica’s $2.16-billion (€14-million) investment in a new state-of-the art production line at the entity’s brewery on Spanish Town Road in Kingston. The new Line 8 facility, which was commissioned into service in October 2017, brews Jamaica’s world-renowned Red Stripe Beer and DragonContinue reading “Industry Minister Welcomes $2.16-Billion Investment by Red Stripe”

These conditions are in two parts and apply to the importation of cargo shipments only. With the exception of certified seeds, individual travelers are not allowed to import fresh plant products or propagative materials into the Cayman Islands from Jamaica as part of checked or carry-on luggage. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS Import Permit a. A written applicationContinue reading “Conditions for the Importation of Plants and Plant Products from Jamaica”

Hon. Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets employees of Caribbean Broilers’ Imagination Farm, Margaret Harrison and Desmond Clarke, during a tour of its onion plot in Hill Run, St. Catherine, on April 6. Under phase one of the project, some 12 acres of onion was being reaped.

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, has called on small farmers to be ready to partner with larger farmers in an effort to increase their productivity. The larger farmers have access to technology that Minister Shaw is hoping to tap under a mother farm/partner farm model to move the industry ahead. “ThereContinue reading “Ready yourselves – Shaw tells Small Farmers”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (right), in discussion with Permanent Secretary Donovan Stanberry at the launch of the 35th anniversary of Farmers’ Month, held at the headquarters of the Jamaica Agricultural Society(JAS) in Kingston today (April 4).