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Second row, from left, Executive Director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Hopeton Heron; Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence; and Acting Chief Technical Director in the Ministry, Monique Gibbs, along with retirees of the BSJ at its B, at its Winchester Road offices in Kingston on Monday,Continue reading “BSJ’s 50th Anniversary Function”

Executive Director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Hopeton Heron (right), along with (from left) Standard and Certification Officer, BSJ, Kemar Bundy;retiree of the BSJ, Beverley Miller; and retiree, BSJ/Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation, Marguerite Domville, cut the cake to celebrate BSJ’s 50th Anniversary, at its Winchester Road offices in Kingston on Monday, July 15, 2019.Continue reading “BSJ’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations”

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence (right), converses with Executive Director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) Hopeton Heron, at the BSJ’s 50th Anniversary ceremony, at its Winchester Road offices in Kingston on Monday, July 15, 2019. The BSJ team was joined by representatives of the Ministry andContinue reading “Acting Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence and Executive Director Hopeton Heron at BSJ’s 50th Anniversary ceremony”

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence has lauded the work of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica and its contribution to national development over its 50 years of existence. The Permanent Secretary was addressing the celebratory function and launch of the 50th Anniversary activities at the Bureau’s offices, 6Continue reading “Ministry hails BSJ on its 50th Anniversary”

Hon J.C. Hutchinson (left), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, speaking with Chantal Pryce, Treasurer, Samuel Gauze, President, both of the Bodles Farmers’ Association; Donald Salmon, President, Jamaica Coffee Growers’ Association, and Joseph McDonald, President, Middlesex Farmers’ Group, at the 124th Annual General Meeting of the Jamaica Agricultural Society,Continue reading “124th Annual General Meeting of the Jamaica Agricultural Society”

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Floyd Green, addresses farmers at the 124th Annual General Meeting of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon on July 10. Others from left are Lenworth Fulton, President, JAS, and Custos of Clarendon, Hon. William Shagoury.

Hon Audley Shaw (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, shares a light moment with Sherlon Michael, farmer from Mavis Bank in St. Andrew at the 124th Annual General Meeting of the Jamaica Agricultural Society held at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon on July 10.

Discussions are under way for the establishment of a Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Jamaica. This was disclosed by the Hon. Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, who stated that during discussions at the recently held FAO meeting in Rome, the FAO had expressed an interest in sending a representative toContinue reading “Home Grown School Feeding Programme to be established”

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, has reiterated his call for the removal of GCT on imported seeds and refrigerated trucks. Lamenting the high food import bill of approximately US$902 million in 2018, Minister Hutchinson said the removal of GCT on these items was necessary toContinue reading “Hutchinson calls for removal of GCT on imported seeds”

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw says a formal system is being put together for small farmers interested in the growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The Minister made the disclosure in an address at the signing of a tripartite agreement, under the Alternative Development (AD) Project, at the Ministry’s St. LuciaContinue reading “System coming to formalise ganja growing for medicinal purposes”