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As Jamaica moves to implement measures to address the potential threat of the Tropical Race 4 (TR4) disease, which affects bananas, plantains and Heliconia, the national task force, assigned by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries held its first official meeting at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices. Chaired by the General Manager ofContinue reading “Protecting Jamaican Bananas… Task force meets on Tropical Race 4 Disease”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (3rd left), along with (from left) Chief Technical Director for Special Projects for the Agriculture Portfolio, Roy McNeil; Chief Technical Director for the Industry Portfolio Monique Gibbs; Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC), Isaac Anthony; Chief Risk ManagementContinue reading “Minister Audley Shaw along with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company Team”

Technical Assistance and Communications Manager, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC), Elizabeth Emmanuel (right), makes a presentation to Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, on Disaster Risk Management, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Others (from 1st left)Continue reading “Presentation on Disaster Risk Management”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Co-Chairperson of the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana, Bishop Simeon Hall and team, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. The team met with the minister to garner information on Jamaica’s cannabis industry.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (centre), along with (from 1st left) Director of the Industry Division in the Ministry, Sophia Wellington; Commissioner, The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana (BNCM), Chargrega McPhee-McIntosh; Annouch Arnebrister of the Ministry of Health; Co-Chairperson Bishop Simeon Hall; Co-Chair Quinn McCartney;Continue reading “Minister Floyd Green meets with the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana Team”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Co-Chairperson of The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana (BNCM), Quinn McCartney, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Mr. McCartney and team met with the minister to garner information on Jamaica’s cannabis industry.

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is moving apace to implement measures to address the potential threat of the Tropical Race (TR) 4 disease, which affects bananas and plantains. Though the disease is not present in Jamaica, the Ministry, through the Plant Quarantine and Produce Inspection Branch and The Banana Board, remains vigilantContinue reading “Agriculture Ministry moves to implement measures to address the potential threat of Tropical Race 4”

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw has ordered the full resumption of the activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project. The Minister made the announcement at a press conference at his Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices on October 9. He said the decision to resume the project was made after it wasContinue reading “Activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project resume”

Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (second left) looks on as Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), makes a point at a handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. OthersContinue reading “Handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers”

Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (left) participates in the ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from second left are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural CommoditiesContinue reading “Ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers”