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Posted on 14/03/2025
Jamaica Ripe for Business
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, says Jamaica is one of the most attractive investment destinations in the Caribbean and is urging more diaspora members to do business in the country. Senator Hill was addressing a panel discussion on Monday (June 17) on the topic ‘Jamaica Open for Bu...
Posted on 14/03/2025
Aubyn Hill engages private sector to build back St Elizabeth
AUBYN Hill, the minister of industry, investment, and commerce, has made a sweeping call to private sector stakeholders to aid in rebuilding communities affected by Hurricane Beryl with an eye for more resilient structures. The minister, a St Elizabeth native, invited members of Lydford Mining Company and Jamaica Institution ...
Posted on 04/12/2019
Increasing global demand for livestock products makes local production more attractive- PS Spence
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence, says that there has been an increasing demand for livestock products globally, with a projected 22% increase in milk production by 2027. He informed that data from...
Posted on 04/12/2019
Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence greets Professor Samuel Aggrey of Lumin Consulting
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Dermon Spence (left), greets Professor Samuel Aggrey of Lumin Consulting, at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday, December 2, 2019. The occasion was a training session in...
Posted on 04/12/2019
Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence addresses participants at a training session in Livestock Breeding
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Dermon Spence, addresses participants at a training session in Livestock Breeding Strategies and Selection Principles, at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday, December 2, 2019. Seated is...
Posted on 03/12/2019
Hon. Floyd Green converses with Mayor of May Pen Winston Maragh
State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (right) gives a listening ear to Mayor of May Pen, Winston Maragh (centre), at a job fair hosted by the HEART/Trust NTA in collaboration with the...
Posted on 03/12/2019
Custos Rotulorum of St. Elizabeth Hon. Beryl Rochester presents The Best of St. Bess Special Award to Joseph Gyles
Hon Beryl Rochester, Custos Rotulorum of St. Elizabeth, presents the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation Ltd’s The Best of St. Bess Special Award to Joseph Gyles, Chief Executive Officer of the National Irrigation Commission (NIC), for dedicated and outstanding service in...
Posted on 03/12/2019
Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown presents The Best of St. Bess Golden Award to Desmond Whitely
Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown presents the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation Ltd’s The Best of St. Bess Golden Award to Desmond Whitely for dedicated and outstanding service in the field of farming. The occasion was the Homecoming Awards Brunch held...
Posted on 03/12/2019
Hon J.C. Hutchinson at the Homecoming Awards Brunch in St. Elizabeth
Interim Chairman of the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation, Dr. Patrick Dallas (right), converses with (from left) George Watson, Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Victor Cummings, Project Manager, Lakes Pen...
Posted on 03/12/2019
Hon. Floyd Green in discussion with Assessment Monitoring Officer Shanieka Worrie
State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (left), is in discussion with Assessment Monitoring Officer, at the Ebony Park HEART Academy in Clarendon, Shanieka Worrie (right), at a job fair hosted by the...
Posted on 02/12/2019
Sugar workers transitioning to farming to benefit from 2,400 tonnes of fertilizers from Morocco
Residents of Lionel Town and surrounding areas of Clarendon, who were previously employed to the closed Monymusk Sugar Factory and intend to pursue farming on acreages of former sugar lands, are to benefit from input materials such as seeds and...
