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Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange (second left), in conversation with (from left) Ambassador of Belgium to Jamaica, His Excellency Hugo Verbist; winner of the inaugural 2019 European Union (EU) Jamaica Short Film competition, Deron Douglas; Head of the EU Delegation to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Cayman Islands, Her Excellency Ambassador Malgorzata Wasilewska; and Film Commissioner, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Renée Robinson. Occasion was the 2019 EU Short Film Competition awards ceremony, held recently at the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), in Kingston.

Director of Special Projects at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Gladstone Rose (at podium), addresses a recent bamboo seminar held at the agency’s Winchester Road offices in St. Andrew. At left is researcher, Veronica Gayle-Ramsey.

Hon Audley Shaw (4th right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, breaks ground for construction of the $109-million Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA)Hanover Parish Office along with (from left) Kelvin Hill, contractor of Morris Hill Ltd; Nigel Myrie, Chairman, RADA National Board; Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; Dave Brown, Member of Parliament for Eastern Hanover; Devon Brown, Chairman, RADA Hanover Parish Board; Member of Parliament Hanover Western, Ian Hayles; and Winston Simpson, Principal Director for Field Services & Operations, RADA, on January 29, 2020 at Haughton Court in Hanover.

Trade Administrator and Chief Executive Officer of the Trade Board Limited (TBL), Douglas Webster.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, displays his custom-made bag from local small business, Bresheh, which is now a part of the Jamaica Promotions Corporation's (JAMPRO) Export Max Programme. Mr . Green was addressing the closing exercise of the Jamaica Business Development Corporation’s (JBDC) Design Fusion Programme, at the agency's Incubator and Resource Centre in Kingston on Wednesday (January 29).

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, addressing the opening of the rehabilitated Dragoon to Flagstaff road in St. James on Wednesday (January 22). The Minister also opened the Prosper to Tangle River roadways on the day.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce , Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, addresses stakeholders at the official launch of the 65th staging of the Hague Agricultural and Industrial Show, which was held on Wednesday (January 22), at the Hague Showground in Trelawny.

Sandy Bank Primary School student, Aziza Hill (podium), leads her team in debate against Parotee Primary School in Round 1 of the inaugural South West Primary School Debate Competition at the Black River Parish Library in St. Elizabeth on Thursday, January 23.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce , Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, addresses stakeholders at the official launch of the 65th staging of the Hague Agricultural and Industrial Show, which was held on Wednesday (January 22), at the Hague Showground in Trelawny.