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Minister Hutchinson speaking with Her Excellency Inés Fors Fernández

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 02 May 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon J.C. Hutchinson (right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, speaking with Her Excellency Inés Fors Fernández, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, at a meeting held at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens’ offices in Kingston on May 2. Others, from left, are Jose Estevez Torres, director, Caribbean Cable Company and Fernando Caballero, Commercial Representative of Cuba. The meeting discussed the possibility of purchasing agricultural implements such as ploughs and harrows, greenhouses and windmills from Cuba as well as Jamaica providing...


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Minister Hutchinson in discussion with Cuban delegation

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 02 May 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon J.C. Hutchinson (right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with a Cuban delegation, headed by Her Excellency Inés Fors Fernández (left), Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba; at a meeting held at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens’ offices in Kingston on May 2. The meeting discussed the possibility of purchasing agricultural implements such as ploughs and harrows, greenhouses and windmills from Cuba as well as Jamaica providing assistance to the Cuban government with new varieties of sugar cane in order to boost the...


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Minister Hutchinson meets with Her Excellency Inés Fors Fernández

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 02 May 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, meets with Her Excellency Inés Fors Fernández, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba; at a meeting held at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens’ offices in Kingston on May 2. The meeting discussed the possibility of purchasing agricultural implements such as ploughs and harrows, greenhouses and windmills from Cuba as well as Jamaica providing assistance to the Cuban government with new varieties of sugar cane in order to boost the performance of their sugar cane industry.


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), along with Member of the Board, Israel Bonds Organization USA, Gideon Siterman, during a courtesy call, at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Monday, April 30, 2018. Minister Shaw and a delegation from Israel held discussions on the possibilities for cooperation in water, agriculture and domestic security. The team is also looking at Vernamfield in Clarendon as a potential logistics hub facility.

Minister Shaw meets with Israeli mission

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 02 May 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw on April 30, met with an Israeli delegation of Agriculture and Water Experts at his New Kingston offices. The delegation is on a fact finding mission to Jamaica. Minister Shaw and the delegation held discussions on the possibilities for cooperation in water, agriculture and domestic security. The team is also looking at Vernamfield in Clarendon as a potential logistics hub facility. Speaking during the courtesy call, Minister Shaw called for both sides to work toward the opening up of channels through which to advance...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Audley Shaw (3rd left), in dialogue with (from left) Permanent Secretary at MICAF, Donovan Stanberry; Country Representative, Organization of American States (OAS), Jeanelle van GlaanenWeygel; CEO, Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Valerie Veira; Executive Director, South West Texas Border, SBDC Network, Albert Salgado; and Managing Director, Development Bank of Jamaica, Milverton Reynolds, at the Courtyard Marriott hotel, New Kingston, on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Occasion was a CEO Breakfast Forum hosted by MICAF in collaboration with the OAS and JBDC, under the theme “Creative and Innovative Financing Strategies for the MSME Sector”.

Shaw encourages small businesses to get formal

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 02 May 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, is encouraging businesses in the Micro, Small and Medium (MSME) sector to formalise their operations in order to access the necessary low interest funds to grow their businesses. “Formality, formality, formality and transparency,” Minister Shaw told stakeholders at a CEO breakfast forum held May 2 at the COURTYARD Marriott hotel in Kingston, were the critical factors for MSMEs to access better interest rates. The CEO breakfast forum, which attracted heads of financial institutions and the leadership of small...


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CEO Breakfast Forum

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 02 May 2018    nicola.wint   
CEO, Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Valerie Veira (right), in discussion with Executive Director, South West Texas Border, SBDC Network, Albert Salgado (centre) and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Donovan Stanberry, at the Courtyard Marriott hotel, New Kingston, on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Occasion was a CEO Breakfast Forum hosted by MICAF in collaboration with the Organization of American States and JBDC, under the theme “Creative and Innovative Financing Strategies for the MSME Sector”.


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Hon Audley Shaw (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries(MICAF), consults with the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry, at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar, held at Devon, Manchester, on April 26. At left is Alvin Murray, Senior Agricultural Coordinator, PROPEL/WUSC Caribbean.

Minister Shaw commends Irish potato farmers

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Manchester farmers produced 70% of the Irish potatoes reaped in Jamaica for the 2017-2018 season which have earned them the praises of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, who addressed them at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar in Devon, Manchester, on April 26. For the July 2017-September 2018 season, some 900 hectares of Irish potato have been planted and 14 million lbs. harvested to date. “Our mission must be to produce enough Irish potato to satisfy the local market as well as export to other Caribbean countries, Minister Shaw said.”...


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Minister Shaw addresses farmers at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), addressing farmers at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar, held at Devon, Manchester, on April 26. Others from left are the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio at MICAF, and CEO of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority Peter Thompson.


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National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Ansel Golaub (left) of A&L Golaub & Sons marketing company speaking with (from left) the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio, and Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, both of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar at Devon, Manchester, on April 26.


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Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, poses with the Jamaica 4-H Clubs National Boy and Girl of the Year, Shanique Dawkins from Clarendon and Rovani Scott of Hanover, along with Dr. Ronald Blake (right), Executive Director, and Colin Virgo, director; both of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, at the National Achievement Expo on April 27 at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon. The Boy and Girl of the Year received $1 million from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Shaw urges 4-H clubbites to pursue excellence

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, is urging the country’s over 104,000 4-H Club members to pursue excellence and to make a difference in all they do. “Don’t let anybody tamper with your ambition,” the Minister told the young people, as he addressed them at the Jamaica 4-H Clubs National Achievement Expo held Friday, April 27 at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon. Minister Shaw, who himself had been a National 4-H Club President, congratulated the movement for the 17% growth in membership over the past three years. This, he said, made the Jamaica...


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