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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley, has endorsed the staging of the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) 4th International Business and Management Conference, which is geared towards addressing the pressing need to reflect on the experiences of Jamaica, and other small and developing states as it relates to entrepreneurship fromContinue reading “Minister Shaw endorses staging of MSBM entrepreneurs’ conference”

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), observes the production of juices being shown to him by Trade Winds Citrus Limited Managing Director, Peter McConnell, during a tour of the Bog Walk plant in St. Catherine on June 26.

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), observes the citrus nursery being shown to him by Trade Winds Citrus Jamaica Limited Managing Director, Peter McConnell, during a farm tour in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, on June 26.

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, is reiterating a call for investments to be made in the growth of certain fruit tree crops in order to reduce Jamaica’s high food import bill. The crops include soursop, guava and West Indian cherry. “We have the climatic conditions and the established historical conditions thatContinue reading “Shaw reiterates call for investments into specific crops”

Marina Young (right), Chairman of the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee, discusses Institutional Framework and Terms of Reference for Integrating Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in Jamaica’s Agriculture Sector Booklet with the Hon. Audley Shaw (2nd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management CommitteeContinue reading “National Disaster Risk Management Committee Meeting”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), in dialogue with Executive Director, International Cocoa Organization, Michel Arrion, during a meeting at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Matters discussed at the meeting included the Frosty Pod Rot disease and preservation of the trees.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (2nd right), in discussion with (from left) Executive Director, International Cocoa Organization, Michel Arrion; Representative of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Dr. Elizabeth Johnson; Acting Director General, Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority, Gusland McCook; and Acting Chief Technical Director of Special ProjectsContinue reading “Frosty Pod Rot disease discussions”

Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets Bree Romuld, Value Chains and Agribusiness Technical Consultant, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee Meeting, held at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston on June 27.

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, who was speaking at the 8th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston on June 18, says the country is focused on the medical marijuana industry.

During the first decade of independence between 1962 and 1972, Jamaica’s average economic growth under the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was almost 6%. This was under the stewardship of the late Sir Donald Sangster in the first five years and subsequently the late Edward Phillip George Seaga as Minister of Finance during the second halfContinue reading “Hon. Audley Shaw’s Statement on Mr. Edward Seaga’s Contribution to Jamaica’s Development – House of Parliament June 19, 2019”