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Posted on 19/07/2025
Business Roadshow Reaches Thousands of MSMEs
Thousands of Micro, Small and Medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and individuals have been engaged through the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce’s islandwide roadshows. “We have had roadshows in eight different parishes, Manchester, St. James, St. Ann, Kingston, St. Catherine, Clarendon, St. Elizabeth and Westmorela...
Posted on 17/07/2025
$668 Million Approved for Local Film Productions
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says $668 million has been approved for local film productions under the Jamaica Screen Development Initiative (JSDI). He said that the funds, which will be disbursed shortly, will benefit 91 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMES). “This is a priority sector because...
Posted on 11/10/2019
Minister Shaw greets the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana Team
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Co-Chairperson of the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana, Bishop Simeon Hall and team, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019....
Posted on 11/10/2019
Minister Floyd Green meets with the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana Team
Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (centre), along with (from 1st left) Director of the Industry Division in the Ministry, Sophia Wellington; Commissioner, The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana (BNCM), Chargrega...
Posted on 11/10/2019
Minister Shaw greets Cho-Chair Quinn McCartney
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Co-Chairperson of The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana (BNCM), Quinn McCartney, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Mr. McCartney...
Posted on 11/10/2019
Minister Audley Shaw along with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company Team
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (3rd left), along with (from left) Chief Technical Director for Special Projects for the Agriculture Portfolio, Roy McNeil; Chief Technical Director for the Industry Portfolio Monique Gibbs; Chief Executive Officer,...
Posted on 10/10/2019
Agriculture Ministry moves to implement measures to address the potential threat of Tropical Race 4
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is moving apace to implement measures to address the potential threat of the Tropical Race (TR) 4 disease, which affects bananas and plantains. Though the disease is not present in Jamaica, the...
Posted on 10/10/2019
Activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project resume
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw has ordered the full resumption of the activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project. The Minister made the announcement at a press conference at his Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices on...
Posted on 07/10/2019
Agriculture Minister Says Major Investments Coming
https://jis.gov.jm/agriculture-minister-says-major-investments-coming/
Posted on 07/10/2019
Two hundred farmers set to receive 50,000 coffee seedlings
A total of 200 coffee farmers from communities in the Blue Mountain areas of St. Andrew are set to benefit from the distribution of 50,000 coffee seedlings with the establishment of the Blue Mountain coffee nursery. This is being made...
Posted on 07/10/2019
JACRA’s Deputy Chairman John Minott presents coffee seedling to farmer Clifford Jonas
Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), John Minott (left), presents farmer Clifford Jonas of Red Light, Irish Town with a coffee seedling at a handover ceremony of the seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited...
