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Minister Shaw at the launch of the MSc in Integrated Rural Development programme

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 08 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, converses with Dr. Paul Ivey, Associate Professor at the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, at the launch of the MSc in Integrated Rural Development (MIRD) programme at UTech on February 7, 2019 in St. Andrew. At left is Senator Matthew Samuda, chairman at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica. The MIRD programme is the first of its kind to be established in the English-speaking Caribbean.


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UTech student Nadine Wilson-Smith presents token to Hon. Audley Shaw

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 08 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Nadine Wilson-Smith, one of the students pursuing the MSc in Integrated Rural Development (MIRD) programme at the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, presents a token to the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries and guest speaker at the launch of the programme, on February 7, 2019. At the lectern is Dr. Garfield Young, Dean, Faculty of the Built Environment, UTech. The MIRD programme is the first of its kind to be established in the English-speaking Caribbean.


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Minister Shaw greets IICA Country Representative Dr. Elizabeth Johnson

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 08 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Country Representative at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, at the launch of the MSc in Integrated Rural Development programme at the University of Technology, Jamaica on February 7, 2019 in St. Andrew. Others from left are Claire Bernard, Deputy Director General , Planning Institute of Jamaica, and Julia Bonner Douett, director of the Standards Division at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica. The MIRD programme is the first of its kind to be established in...


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Hon. Audley Shaw greets Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), greets Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe use.


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Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence in dialogue with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence (right), in dialogue with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to...


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Minister Shaw converses with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), converses with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda,at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe use.


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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon Audley Shaw (right), purchases carrots from farmer Ricky Robinson of Bull Savannah, St Elizabeth, at the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019. The event was one of the JSE’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.

Use agriculture to grow the economy, says Shaw

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Audley Shaw says the country needs to use agriculture to grow the economy. In doing so, Jamaica could create wealth from the ground up, utilising creative financing with the assistance of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE). Minister Shaw made these comments while delivering the keynote address at the “Market meets Market on the Sea” event, held February 7, 2019 at the waterfront in downtown Kingston. “We cannot grow the economy,” Minister Shaw said, “without growing agriculture.” In this regard, the Minister said, linkages and...


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Hon. Audley Shaw and Managing Director Marlene Street-Forrest view turnip on sale

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
From left, Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, view turnip on sale by a vendor at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Antoinette McKain, Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation, Steven Gooden, CEO, NCB Capital Markets and Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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Minister Shaw discusses castor bean at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea event

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses castor bean with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and Michael Pryce, Acting Chief Executive Officer at the Agro-Invest Corporation (AIC), during a tour of the AIC’s booth at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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