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Posted on 19/07/2025
Business Roadshow Reaches Thousands of MSMEs
Thousands of Micro, Small and Medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and individuals have been engaged through the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce’s islandwide roadshows. “We have had roadshows in eight different parishes, Manchester, St. James, St. Ann, Kingston, St. Catherine, Clarendon, St. Elizabeth and Westmorela...
Posted on 17/07/2025
$668 Million Approved for Local Film Productions
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says $668 million has been approved for local film productions under the Jamaica Screen Development Initiative (JSDI). He said that the funds, which will be disbursed shortly, will benefit 91 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMES). “This is a priority sector because...
Posted on 03/08/2022
COJ Closure Amnesty Extended
The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) has relaunched its COVID-19 Compliance Relief Initiative in an effort to further assist businesses and companies hit hard by the pandemic to formally close without paying the full fees associated with filing closure notices. The...
Posted on 03/08/2022
JBDC Helping MSMEs to Access Finance
As part of its thrust to create an enabling environment for Jamaican micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has as one of its strategic goals "providing access to adequate and appropriate financing" for the...
Posted on 27/07/2022
Red Stripe Commended for Expanding Operations
The management of Red Stripe has been commended for piloting the local brewery giant through the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, to expand the entity’s operations. This includes further production capacity buildout at the firm’s Spanish Town Road-based plant in...
Posted on 26/07/2022
Melanie Subratie Named Chairman of JAMPRO
Kingston, Jamaica - The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce has announced the appointment of Melanie Subratie as the new Chairman of JAMPRO, Jamaica’s trade and investment promotion agency, in the Ministry of Industry, Investment & Commerce. Subratie’s appointment took...
Posted on 22/07/2022
JIPO Participates in Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO
Lilyclaire Bellamy, Executive Director of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) participated in the Sixty-Third Series of Meetings of the Assembles of Member States of WIPIO, July 14-22, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland. She shared that "the government of Jamaica has historically...
Posted on 21/07/2022
Investment Minister Tours Jamaican Set of HBO Film, “Get Millie Black”
On Thursday July 21, 2022 Senator the Honourable Aubyn Hill toured the production set of “Get Millie Black,” an HBO produced television series based on the novel of the same name by Man Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James. Senator Hill was...
Posted on 19/07/2022
High Praises for JANAAC and BSJ at FDA Recognition and Accreditation Awards
There were high praises for the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC) and the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) at today’s JANAAC FDA Recognition and Accreditation Awards, held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. Delivering the keynote address, Senator...
Posted on 28/04/2022
Investment Minister Encourages Local & Diaspora Participation in World Free Zones Exhibition & Conference
Senator Aubyn Hill, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, is encouraging Jamaican entrepreneurs, based locally and in the Diaspora, to have their businesses showcased on the world stage by using the opportunity offered at the World Free Zones Organization (World...
