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June 2025
 

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, empties silage into machine for bagging at the handover of a silo-packer by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on September 12. The silage packing machine will be used across Jamaica to provide dairy farmers with access to silage to ensure feed material will always be available.

Dairy farmers to benefit from silage packing machine

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 14 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) has secured a silage packing machine and accompanying new technology that will improve access to nutritious feed material for dairy cattle nationwide. This was made possible through funding from the USAID through its Ja REEACH II project. The silo-packer machine, the first of its kind in Jamaica, will allow the JDDB to support small dairy farmers islandwide to store fodder as silage in order to continue to provide nutrition to their animals during periods when feed material is scarce or unavailable. Speaking at the handover of the machine on...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw.

Gov’t cannot abandon sugar industry - Shaw

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 14 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, the Hon. Audley Shaw, reiterated Government’s commitment to support the revitalization of Jamaica’s sugar industry at the Sugar Industry Authority’s (SIA’) 3rd Annual Post Crop Seminar held September 13 at the Authority’s Research Division in Mandeville, under the theme The Future of the Jamaican Sugar Industry. “Government cannot simply abandon the sugar industry and we do not intend to. We have a duty and a responsibility to create the enabling parameters to aid the industry to emerge from its current doldrums,” Shaw told stakeholders...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (3rd left); Executive Vice President, Retail, Scotiabank, Audrey Tugwell Henry (4th left); and President and CEO, Scotiabank, David Noel (5th left), in photo with the top three 2018 Scotiabank Vision Achievers (SVA) (l-r) CEO and Founder, Jamaican Care Packages, Rory-Craig Walker; Managing Director, Morgan’s Creek, Joni-Dale Morgan; and Sheryl Anderson of QSSL Quality Systems Solutions and Initiative, at the SVA Closing Ceremony, held under the theme “Pepared to Win”, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel, Waterloo Road, on Tuesday, September 11. SVA provided 25 SMEs the opportunity to benefit from a 17 week coaching programme. The programme, led by International Business Coach, Marcia Woon-Choy of ActionCOACH, was designed to impart core competencies required for running a profitable business. These include sales, systemizing the business process, marketing and understanding business financials.

Shaw lauds Scotiabank’s Vision Achiever Programme

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 12 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, has lauded Scotiabank’s Vision Achiever Programme, which he said is providing another opportunity for increased growth of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). He noted that the MSME sector is an important driver of economic growth, which governments rely on to create jobs and increase economic growth and productivity. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Scotiabank Vision Achiever Programme at the Terra Nova All-Suites Hotel in Kingston on September 11, Minister Shaw said, “Scotiabank, a private...


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Cedric Hanson (right) of Northern Caribbean University explains his clay pot irrigation technology to the Hon Audley Shaw (3rd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Knox Community College students (from left) Brittany Campbell and Shanice Wander at the Youth Employment Creation in Agriculture and Agro-Processing Public Forum, held at the Cobbla Campus of Knox Community College in Manchester on September 7. The forum explored economic opportunities available in agriculture for young people.

Shaw encourages young people to think big for agriculture

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 11 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, is encouraging young people to think big and to place more emphasis on creating products for the international marketplace. “Our vision is to have a vibrant re-energised agricultural sector involving young creative minds and young men and women who are technologically savvy and ready to join the vanguard of entrepreneurs,” said Minister Shaw. He was speaking at the PROPEL-organised Youth Employment Creation in Agriculture and Agro-Processing Public Forum held at the Cobbla Campus of Knox Community College in...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), along with (from left) Executive Director, Economic Growth Council, Senator Aubyn Hill; Member of Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew, Mrs. Juliet Holness; Owner, Wallenford Coffee Company Limited, Michael Lee-Chin; and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, at a press conference to update the country on Jamaica’s coffee industry at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday, September 10, 2018.

$60-million gift for coffee farmers

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 10 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
Philanthropist Michael Lee-Chin has announced a gift of $60 million to Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee farmers to assist with alleviating the current crisis in the sector. Lee-Chin made the announcement at a media briefing held at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ (MICAF) New Kingston offices today, September 10, 2018. The donation, which is a personal gift from the Lee-Chin family, is in response to a special appeal from Member of Parliament, East Rural St. Andrew, Juliet Holness, and will constitute a temporary solution to the plight of the 7,000 coffee farmers...


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