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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), listens as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rainforest Seafoods, Brian Jardim (centre), points out the various food items produced by his company. The occasion was a tour of the company’s manufacturing facility on Slipe Road in Kingston on July 27. At third right is President of the Jamaica Exporters’ Association (JEA), Michelle Chong.

Gov’t to Increase Protection of Fishing Territory

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government intends to do more to safeguard the country’s territorial waters against poaching. He noted that Jamaica loses approximately US$10 million annually due to illegal fishing. He said the fishing jurisdiction...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left), Dean of the College of Natural and Applied Sciences at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Vincent Wright (right), and Executive Director of Farm Up Jamaica Limited (FUJL), Neil Curtis (centre) admire a yield of freshly produced crops during the FUJL press briefing held at the Ministry’s, Hope Road office on July 19.

NCU to Offer Degree and Diploma Programmes in Agriculture

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left); General Manager of the Banana Board, Janet Conie (centre), and Charge d'Affaires of the EU Delegation in Jamaica, Jose Luis Martinez Prada, admire a bunch of bananas at a forum, held on July 20 at the AIBGA farm supply outlet, in Trinity, St. Mary.

Banana Industry Rebounding in Several Parishes

Farm Up Jamaica Limited (FUJL) Endorsed by Minister Hutchinson

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (2nd right), is shown a fruit and vegetable processor by Caribbean Cable Company’s (CCC) outgoing Managing Director, Ariel Roman Colina (2nd left), during a visit to the entity’s plant at Rodon’s Pen in Old Harbour, St. Catherine, on Tuesday, July 19. Others (from left) are CCC’s newly appointed Managing Director, Jose Estevez Torres; and Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Acting Chief Executive Officer, Peter Thompson.

Gov’t Forging Partnership to Source Tools for Farmers

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda, CD, MP

10 years ago AgricultureCommerceSectoral Debate 2016/2017

Closing of Sectoral Debate – Hon. Karl Samuda

Introductory Remarks Speaker, it is my task today to close the Sectoral Debate for the Fiscal Year 2016-2017, and the first for this new administration. I am, indeed, honoured to do so. On behalf of the Government, I applaud everyone who took the time and effort to make a meaningful contribution to the Debate. While we won’t be able to...

10 years ago AgricultureSectoral Debate 2016/2017

$800 Million to Rehabilitate Cane Roads

Some $800 million will be spent to rehabilitate 80 kilometres of cane roads in sugar-producing parishes, under the Sugar Transformation Programme. This was disclosed by Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, as he closed the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 12. The works will be undertaken in St. Thomas, Hanover, St....

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, closes the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 12.

10 years ago AgricultureCommerceSectoral Debate 2016/2017

Government Will Take Decisive Action to Tackle Crime – Samuda

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, says the Government will take decisive action to tackle the issue of crime. “We must amend our laws to put tougher penalties in place for persons convicted of violent crimes, and we must fix our justice system,” Mr. Samuda said. The Minister was closing the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the...

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister , Hon. Karl Samuda (right), observes sugar cane processing activities at the Long Pond Sugar Factory, during a tour of the Clark’s Town Trelawny-based facility on July 8. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Donovan Stanberry (3rd right); and Mayor of Falmouth, Garth Wilkinson (2nd right), also look on.

10 years ago AgricultureCommerce

Gov’t to Tackle Sale of Imported Refined Sugar in Retail Trade

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, says the Government will be moving to tackle the problem of imported refined sugar for use in the manufacturing sector, which ends up in the retail trade. “You cannot have sugar being produced…brought back having been refined and then you have manufacturers, who use that refined sugar as raw material,...

Minister Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda.

10 years ago Agriculture

Talks Underway With Potential New Investors for Long Pond – Minister Samuda

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, says that talks are underway with potential new investors in the operations at the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Clark’s Town, Trelawny. He said the Ministry “is working overtime” with the owners of Everglades, which operates Long Pond, to conclude the negotiations. Minister Samuda, who was addressing employees and cane...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, addresses sugar stakeholders at the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Clark’s Town, Trelawny during a tour of the facility on Friday (July 8).

10 years ago Agriculture

Gov’t Puts Measures in Place to Keep Monymusk Open – Hon. Karl Samuda

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, says strategies employed by the Government at the Monymusk Sugar Factory in Clarendon will ensure that the facility remains open when the current sugar crop ends. Speaking during a tour of the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Clark’s Town, Trelawny on Friday (July 8), Minister Samuda said operational issues affecting...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (left), in conversation with Donnie Nembhard (right), a farmer at the New Forest/Duff House Agro Park, in Manchester, during his tour on July 7. At centre is Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Donovan Stanberry. The occasion was the handover of a drip irrigation system funded by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at a cost of $75 million.

10 years ago Agriculture

Major Investment at Hounslow Agro Park

A major conglomerate will be investing in more than 200 acres of land for the production of hot peppers at the Hounslow Agro Park, in St. Elizabeth. Making the disclosure, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, said the company will provide the farmers on the land with all the planting material and fertiliser. “At the end...