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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 13/10/2017
Unveiling of BSJ’s new logo
(L-R) Executive Director, Stephen Wedderburn; Quality Environmental Systems Manager, Sophia Lawrence; and Team Leader, Chemistry Department, of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), at the launch of the unveiling of BSJ’s new logo, held at its Winchester Road offices, Kingston...
Posted on 13/10/2017
Separation of Bureau of Standards regulatory functions timely – Samuda
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, says that the time has come for the separation of the regulatory functions of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ). According to the Minister, the separation of the regulations and...
Posted on 13/10/2017
Samuda hails expansion work at Caribbean Cement Company Limited
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, has lauded the expansion work being carried out at the Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL). He said that he was impressed with the level of work that has been done...
Posted on 13/10/2017
Hutchinson launches push start programme for farmers
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, launched a pilot project, Agriculture Push Start Programme, aimed at giving a start to persons who want to pursue agriculture as a business. He...
Posted on 13/10/2017
Insolvency Sensitization Seminar for attorneys-at-law and stakeholders
Chief Executive Officer, Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ), Judith Ramlogan (1st right second row), responds to a question during an Insolvency Sensitization Seminar at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ (MICAF) New Kingston offices on Tuesday, October 10,...
Posted on 13/10/2017
Insolvency Sensitization Seminar
Chief Executive Officer, Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ), Judith Ramlogan (left), along with (from left) Deputy CEO, COJ, Shellie Leon; Retired Judge of Appeal, Hon. Justice Ferdinand Smith; and Acting Government Trustee, Office of the Government Trustee, Fayola Evans-Roberts, at...
Posted on 12/10/2017
Minister Hutchinson greets farmer Patrick Solomon
Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets farmer Patrick Solomon of the Plantain Garden River Agro-Park at the St. Jago Farm Supplies `Salute to Farmers’ function held in St. Thomas on...
Posted on 12/10/2017
General Manager Peter Donkersloot gives Minister Samuda a tour of Carib Cement Plant
General Manager, Caribbean Cement Company Limited, Peter Donkersloot (right), gives Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, a tour of the company’s plant on Wednesday, October 11, 2017.
Posted on 12/10/2017
St. Jago Farm Supplies Salute to Farmers
Young farmer Zandra Edwards of the Rowlandsfield Group practises how to operate a motorised knapsack sprayer, one of which was donated to the group by Wayne Chin (right). Project Manager, Craftop, at the St. Jago Farm Supplies ‘Salute to Farmers’...
