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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 25/04/2019
Gov’t. committed to working with small farmers- Shaw
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, says that the Government is committed to working with small farmers across Jamaica to become more productive. He informed that one of the major initiatives that he is working on...
Posted on 24/04/2019
Montpelier Agricultural Show 2019
Hon J.C. Hutchinson (left), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses cauliflower cultivation with Clavia McFarlane (right), lecturer of Science and Agronomy at Knockalva Polytechnic College, during a tour of displays at the Montpelier...
Posted on 18/04/2019
Trade Board cutting irrelevant red-tape – Shaw
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon Audley Shaw, says that through the Trade Facilitation Task Force’s efforts to gradually reduce the unnecessary and burdensome ‘red-tape’ associated with regulatory compliance in the trading environment, the Ministry has received the green...
Posted on 18/04/2019
Hon. Audley Shaw speaking at the Caribbean MSME Conference 2019
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, speaking at the Caribbean Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Conference 2019, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on April 17. The Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) is hosting its...
Posted on 18/04/2019
Minister Shaw at the 2019 Caribbean MSME Conference
Chairman, Caribbean Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Conference Committee, Dr. Blossom O’Meally-Nelson (left), engages Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Audley Shaw (centre); and Ambassador, International Organisation for Standardization, MICAF, Reginald Budhan, in conversation at the...
Posted on 18/04/2019
Minister Shaw in dialogue with SBAJ President Hugh Johnson and Board Secretary Dennise Williams
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), in dialogue with President, Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), Hugh Johnson (left); and Board Secretary, SBAJ, Dennise Williams, at the Caribbean Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Conference...
Posted on 15/04/2019
Shaw lauds Amaterra Group for agricultural component in resort development
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, has lauded the Amaterra Group for its integrated approach to the soon-to-be constructed 800-room resort on a beachfront property in Stewart Castle in Trelawny “I am pleased with the plan...
Posted on 15/04/2019
Minister Shaw greets Prime Minister Andrew Holness at ground breaking ceremony in Trelawny
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (2nd right) greets Prime Minister Andrew Holness (left) on arrival at the official groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of 8,000 hotel rooms by Amaterra Group in Stewart Castle, Trelawny, on...
Posted on 15/04/2019
Minister Bartlett in discussion with Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Hon. Audley Shaw
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett in discussion with Prime Minister Andrew Holness (centre) and Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (right). Occasion was the official groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of 8,000 hotel rooms by...
