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June 2025
 

Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets Nigerian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency Janet Omoleegho Olisa, at the Jamaica Business Development Corporation’s Breakfast with the CEO under the theme ‘Eye on 2020: Exploring New Frontiers’, held at The Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on February 28, 2019. At centre is Fredik Ekfeldt, Head of Politics, Press and Information at the Delegation of the European Union in Jamaica. The forum is aimed at updating stakeholders on the Corporation’s strategic plans.

Gov’t takes steps to access dormant funds for MSME development

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 01 Mar 2019    nicola.wint   
Government has engaged the services of a consultancy group to identify the steps necessary for tapping into the nearly $50-billion in dormant bank accounts, with the aim of using these funds to provide low-interest financing to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Speaking at a Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) breakfast forum held under the theme ‘Eye on 20/20: Exploring New Frontiers’at The Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on February 28, Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, said access to affordable financing has been...


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Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, views sweet pepper being cultivated in one of the greenhouses operated by the Elliot Farmers Community Enterprise group in Cromwell land, St. Mary, on February 27, 2019. At right is Marvalee Tomlinson Russell, President. Over 900 sweet pepper plants, kale and cilantro are currently being cultivated by the group.

Hutchinson launches St. Mary greenhouse project

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 28 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon J.C. Hutchinson, had high praises for the Elliot Farmers Community Enterprise Group for its greenhouse project, aimed at providing employment with emphasis on sustainable agricultural farming. Speaking at the project’s official launch in Cromwell Land District, St. Mary, on February 27, 2019, Minister Hutchinson emphasised the importance of rural economic development to national development, noting that some 45% of Jamaica’s population resides in rural communities and some 20% of our population...


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Hon J.C. Hutchinson (right), Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses hot pepper production with (from left) Courtney Cole, Chief Technical Director, Special Projects, Dr. Lisa Myers Morgan, Principal Research Director, Dermon Spence, Acting Permanent Secretary and Carla Douglas, Senior Research Director, at the Ministry's Certification Regulations for Hot Pepper Production Seminar held at Jamaica Drip Irrigation Ltd in Kendal, Manchester, on February 26, 2019. Hot pepper is one of the priority crops being promoted by the Government for sale in both the local and export markets.

Jamaican peppers, a hot commodity - Hutchinson

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 27 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon J.C. Hutchinson says Jamaican peppers are a “hot item” and a commodity in great demand Minister Hutchinson made this comment while delivering the keynote address at a workshop for the certification of Jamaican hot peppers, held February 26, 2019 at the Jamaica Drip Irrigation Ltd. complex in Kendal, Manchester. “The annual global production of fresh peppers for export, Minister Hutchinson said, is estimated at approximately 30 million tonnes.” Jamaica, he added produces a mere 0.04 per cent of...


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Conch Close Season Begins March 1

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 25 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
The Honourable Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries has declared, by Order, a Close Season for queen conch (Genus Strombus) for the period March 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020. Persons in possession of conch meat and /or conch opercula must make two (2) declarations as follows: 1. The first should be made no later than March 7, 2019 2. The second should be made no later than March 28, 2019 All declarations of conch products in storage must satisfy the following conditions: 1. Made in writing on the standard declaration form entitled “Declaration of Conch Products in Storage...


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Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, views banner following ribbon-cutting exercise at the launch of the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica’s MSc in Integrated Rural Development (MIRD) programme in St. Andrew on February 7, 2019. Sharing in the occasion (from left) are Dr. Amani Ishemo, MIRD Coordinator, Dr. Paul Ivey, Associate Professor, and 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.

Shaw welcomes UTech’s MSc in Integrated Rural Development

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 08 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Audley Shaw, has commended the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica for its innovation in the establishment of a Master of Science Degree in Integrated Rural Development (MIRD) programme, the first of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean. Minister Shaw was speaking at the official launch of the programme at UTech in St. Andrew on February 7, 2019, where he noted that graduates of this programme would now have an opportunity to help to inspire development in rural Jamaica. The 18-month graduate programme is the...


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