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JBDC CEO, Valerie Veira (left), Winner of the JBDC Entrepreneur of the Year award and Managing Director of Bartley’s All in Wood, Lacey-Ann Bartley (centre) and Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, the Hon. G. Anthony Hylton (right) are all smiles as Bartley is presented with the JBDC Entrepreneur of the Year Gold Plate.

Lacey-Ann Bartley Named JBDC Entrepreneur of the Year 2014

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has established an “Entrepreneur of the Year” award to recognize its most outstanding entrepreneur for the year. Through the JBDC Business Monitoring programme, which has to date, worked closely with over 215 small business...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon Anthony Hylton (centre), is greeted by international technology expert, Michael O’Neil (left), when he arrived at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston today (July 2) to participate in the launch of Columbus Business Solutions (CBS) Hosted PBX product. Looking on is Director, Corporate Communications, CBS, Gail Abrahams (right).

Businesses must have Affordable Access to Telecom Services

Former Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) Executive Director, Carol Simpson, addressing Monday’s (June 30) opening ceremony for the International Reggae Day Conference, at the Courtleigh Hotel, New Kingston, before leaving the island for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to take up her new job as Head of WIPO’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. Reggae Day was observed on July 1.

Former JIPO Executive Director Heads WIPO Bureau for Caribbean

Industry, Investment, and Commerce Minister, Hon. Anthony Hylton, addressing Monday’s (June 30) opening ceremony for the International Reggae Day Conference, held at the Courtleigh Hotel, New Kingston, under the theme: ‘You Reap What You Sow’. This year’s 20th commemoration of International Reggae Day will be held on Tuesday, July 1.

Madrid Protocol Legislation for Parliament Soon

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton (right), having a light exchange with Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), Dr. Rodrigo Varela (second right), and Consultant, International Development Research Centre, Lois Stevenson, during the launch of the GEM Jamaica 2013 Report, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston, on June 25.

Government to Provide $1 Billion to MSME Sector

Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton (right) discusses aspects of the just launched United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2014 with (from left): Chairman, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Milton Samuda; JAMPRO’s President, Diane Edwards; and Head, Institute for Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies, Mona, Professor Anthony Clayton. The report was launched locally on Tuesday, June 24, at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston.

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Country Records 13.6 Per Cent Increase in FDI Inflows Over 2012

For the first time since the global economic recession of 2008, Jamaica recorded more than US$500 million in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows during 2013. This is contained in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2014 which was launched locally on June 24 by Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Hon. Anthony Hylton at the...

Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Hon. Anthony Hylton (third right), and State Minister, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams (third left) interface with, from left: President, Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Christopher Zacca; President, Women Entrepreneurs Network of the Caribbean (WENC) Jamaica, Ethnie Miller Simpson; Treasurer, WENC, Jamaica, Janice Dacres Jones; and Deputy Opposition Spokesman on Industry, Investment, Commerce, Mining and Energy, Kent Gammon, during the official launch of WENC’s Jamaica chapter at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on June 20.

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Women’s Entrepreneurial Network Formed in Jamaica

Female entrepreneurs have long experienced challenges which have been impediments to their business engagements. Some of these hurdles include: limited access to formal business networks and financing. Consequent on these developments, particularly across the region, the Women Entrepreneurs Network of the Caribbean (WENC) has been established to address existing and emerging concerns. Launched in March 2012, the WENC evolved from...

Manager, National Certification Body of Jamaica (NCBJ), Jaqueline Scott-Brown (centre); presents a Certificate of Conformity to the ISO: 9001 2008 standard, to Quality Officer, TransJamaican Highway Limited, Kareem Fraser on June 19 at the company’s Kingston office. Other members of the TransJamaican Highway Limited (THL) team are (from left); Managing Director, Guillaume Allain; Senior Quality and Maintenance Engineer, Melbourne Lyn-Cook; and Administrative Officer, Leslie Williams.

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TransJamaican Highway Receives ISO Standard Certificate

TransJamaican Highway Limited (THL), builders of Highway 2000 East –West, was awarded a certificate of conformity to the ISO: 9001 2008 standard from the National Certification Body of Jamaica (NCBJ) on June 19. Managing Director of TransJamaican Highway Limited, Guillaume Allain, said an important aspect of the ISO: 9001 2008 certification is that it speaks to ongoing improvement. “This certification...

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FTC Investigates 440 Cases

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, has informed that 440 cases were investigated by the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), last fiscal year. Making her contribution to the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June 18, Mrs. Ffolkes-Abrahams said the figure comprised 166 cases that were unresolved at the end of...

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Government Pursuing Certification for Organic Products

Jamaica is currently, for the first time, seeking certification for organic production, which will be internationally recognised. This was disclosed by State Minister for Industry, Investment, and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, in her 2014/15 Sectoral Debate presentation in the House of Representatives on June 18, under the theme: ‘Facilitating the Growth of Industries’. She noted that the organic goods industry...

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JIPO Reports Increase in Registration

The Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) is reporting an increase in the registration of trade marks by entertainers, record producers and event promoters. State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, who made the disclosure while contributing to the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on June 18, said the increase is a result...

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Work Continues to Protect Reggae Music

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, says plans to protect the genre of Reggae music under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention, continues in earnest. Reggae, which is one of Jamaica’s foremost indigenous music forms, has had a colossal impact on the world stage. Over the last 50 years, reggae...