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Posted on 15/11/2018
Investment Opportunity- Divestment of the assets of the former Cocoa Industry Board
The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), on behalf of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), is seeking investors with the financial capacity to purchase the commercial assets of the former Cocoa Industry Board (CIB) and to undertake...

Posted on 15/11/2018
Address by the Honourable Audley Shaw to the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association 69th AGM
Today, we meet again for another AGM of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association. Your proud record shows that this is the 69th such meeting and, indeed, this is the 77th Anniversary of the Association. This is an achievement. Embedded...

Posted on 15/11/2018
69th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association
Hon Audley Shaw (3rd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, shares a light moment with (from left) Allan Rickards, Chairman of the All-Island Cane Farmers’ Association, Phillip Henriques, Chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority, and Lenworth Fulton, President...

Posted on 15/11/2018
Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association
From left, Badian Handal, of the St. Catherine Cane Farmers’ Association, Derrick Heaven, cane farmer, and Philip Henriques, Chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority, in discussion at the 69th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association, held...

Posted on 15/11/2018
69th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association
A cane farmer participating in the 69th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on November 14, 2018.

Posted on 14/11/2018
Minister Shaw attends International Community Tourism Conference at UWI, Mona
Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, along with (from left) Diana McIntyre-Pike, President/Founder Countrystyle Villages as Businesses and IIPT Caribbean President; Amanda Charles, Sustainable Tourism Specialist, Caribbean Tourism Organization; Annie Bertrand, Coordinator Productivity and Innovation...

Posted on 14/11/2018
Airbnb is not a competitor to community tourism – Audley Shaw
Gillian Rowland (left), Vice-President of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) Caribbean, presents compact disc of conference presentations to the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the International Community Tourism Conference on November...

Posted on 08/11/2018
Make eating Jamaican part of your lifestyle, says Permanent Sec
Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Andrene Collings, is urging Jamaicans to support local farmers and businesses by making eating Jamaican a part of their lifestyle. This appeal was made at the launch of...

Posted on 06/11/2018
Minister Shaw visits offices of HUAWEI Technologies in Shanghai, China
(L-R) Chris Bao, Director of Trade, HUAWEI; H.E. Antonio Hugh, Jamaica's High Commissioner to China; Diane Edwards, President of JAMPRO; Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon Daryl Vaz; Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture...