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Posted on 06/05/2026
Jamaica and India Celebrate Enduring Bilateral Partnership
The longstanding diplomatic partnership between Jamaica and the Republic of India was highlighted on Monday (May 4) during a Ministerial Luncheon hosted by Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill. The luncheon was hosted in honour of the official visit by India’s Minister of External Affairs...
Posted on 05/05/2026
New trade order? Indian minister pushes Jamaica to seize fresh economic opportunities amid growing global instability
Jamaica’s Minister of industry, Investment and Commerce Aubyn Hill (left) greets India’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar ahead of Monday’s ministerial luncheon held at AC Hotel Kingston in New Kingston. (Photo: Joseph Wellington) Declaring that modern commerce can no longer be separated from global politic...
Posted on 18/04/2026
NCB Launches $2 Billion SME Growth Fund Facility
National Commercial Bank Limited (NCB) has launched a $2 billion facility designed to provide access to financing to small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The NCB SME Growth Fund II is open to both new and existing NCB customers across Jamaica’s key growth sectors. Lauding the initiative during a luncheon at the AC Marr...
Posted on 12/12/2019
Hon. Audley Shaw participates in flag-raising exercise at the official ground-breaking ceremony for the OGH Grow Jamaica Craft Medicinal Hemp Farm
Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Robert Weinstein, Co-Founder & President, Organic Growth Holdings, Inc., participate in flag-raising exercise at the official ground-breaking ceremony for the OGH Grow Jamaica Craft Medicinal Hemp Farm...
Posted on 10/12/2019
CLA Issues 50th Licence
The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has issued its 50th licence for operations in the medical cannabis industry. The Montego Bay-based Outlier Biopharma Limited was presented with the permit to operate a retail herbal house (without facility for consumption) during a...
Posted on 10/12/2019
Minister Calls On Farmers To Write Letters For Road Repairs
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is calling on farmers to write formal letters with requests for road repairs in their communities. Speaking at the Ministry’s Quarterly Press Briefing on Thursday (December 5) in Kingston, Minister without Portfolio...
Posted on 10/12/2019
National Youth in Agriculture Policy to be completed next year
State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, says the National Youth in Agriculture Policy is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2020. Addressing the annual accountability seminar and cocktail reception...
Posted on 10/12/2019
Hon. Floyd Green raises a toast with IICA Country Representative Dr. Elizabeth Johnson
State Minister in the Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green (left), raises a toast with Country Representative of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, at the annual accountability seminar and cocktail reception,...
Posted on 10/12/2019
IICA First- place Youth in Agribusiness award for 2019 Kemoy McKenzie
State Minister in the Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green (left), congratulates the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) first- place Youth in Agribusiness awardee for 2019, Kemoy McKenzie, at IICA’s annual accountability seminar and cocktail...
Posted on 09/12/2019
Government embarks on drive to increase tree densities on coffee plantations
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, says the government is embarking upon a drive to increase tree densities on coffee plantations from the current average of between 600 to 650 plants per acre to 800 plants per...
Posted on 09/12/2019
US Ambassador Calls On Jamaicans To Take Better Advantage Of CBI
Addressing the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MBCCI) Awards Banquet, held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, in St. James, on Saturday (November 30), Mr. Tapia indicated that local companies can get “5 to 20 per cent tax...
Posted on 06/12/2019
Insurance industry excellent avenue for economic growth, says Minister Shaw
Accounting, as it does, for some 11.5 per cent of the country’s financial assets, the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, has described the insurance industry as an excellent avenue for economic growth. “The industry saw...
