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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 13/12/2019
CAC Encourages Consumers To Be Aware Of Their Basic Rights
The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is encouraging shoppers to understand and be aware of their basic rights while conducting their business during the Yuletide season. Communications Specialist at the CAC, Dorothy Campbell, tells JIS News that it is very important...
Posted on 13/12/2019
Plant Quarantine Branch phone lines down
The Plant Quarantine and Produce Inspection Branch of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is advising members of the public that its phone lines are down due to technical issues. The Branch, which is responsible for ensuring that...
Posted on 12/12/2019
Jamaica’s hemp to produce best CBD oil – Shaw
Jamaica’s hemp industry will produce the best CBD oil, declared the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the official ground-breaking ceremony for 365-acre Organic Grow Jamaica Craft Medicinal Hemp Farm at Long Pond Estate in...
Posted on 12/12/2019
Minister Audley Shaw participates in ground-breaking ceremony for the OGH Grow Jamaica Craft Medicinal Hemp Farm at Long Pond Estate
From left, Mitchel Yeckes, Managing Director, Organic Growth Holdings Grow Jamaica, Robert Weinstein, Co-Founder & President, Organic Growth Holdings, Inc (OGH), Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Shawn Rogers, Vice-President, OGH Grow Jamaica officially break...
Posted on 12/12/2019
President Robert Weinstein greets Hon. Audley Shaw at the official ground-breaking ceremony for the OGH Grow Jamaica Craft Medicinal Hemp Farm
Robert Weinstein (centre), Co-Founder & President, Organic Growth Holdings, Inc, greets the Hon. Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the official ground-breaking ceremony for the OGH Grow Jamaica Craft Medicinal Hemp Farm at Long Pond Estate...
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
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...
