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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), views baby chickens at the St. Mary Agricultural Show, held yesterday (April 22) at the Gray’s Inn Sports Complex in Annotto Bay. Also pictured (from left) are Assistant Vice President at Hi-Pro, Colonel Jaimie Ogilvie; Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Fenton Ferguson; and President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Lenworth Fulton.
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), views baby chickens at the St. Mary Agricultural Show, held yesterday (April 22) at the Gray’s Inn Sports Complex in Annotto Bay. Also pictured (from left) are Assistant Vice President at Hi-Pro, Colonel Jaimie Ogilvie; Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Fenton Ferguson; and President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Lenworth Fulton.

Discussions to be Held with Private Landowners – Shaw

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, says discussions will be held with private landowners for them to lease thousands of acres to farmers. Delivering the keynote address at the St. Mary Agricultural Show, held on April...
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), in discussion with Board Secretary, Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), Dennise Williams, at the SBAJ’s second regional Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) Conference, on April 17, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), in discussion with Board Secretary, Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), Dennise Williams, at the SBAJ’s second regional Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) Conference, on April 17, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), examines a container with pepper sauce made and packaged by Entrepreneur, Mama Sassy’s Gourmet Pepper Sauce, Cherelle Cartwright (left), at the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) second regional Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) Caribbean Conference 2019 on April 17, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. At right is President, Small Business Association of Jamaica, Hugh Johnson.
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), examines a container with pepper sauce made and packaged by Entrepreneur, Mama Sassy’s Gourmet Pepper Sauce, Cherelle Cartwright (left), at the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) second regional Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) Caribbean Conference 2019 on April 17, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. At right is President, Small Business Association of Jamaica, Hugh Johnson.

Trade Information Portal to Go Live in May
President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Howard Mitchell, addresses the Jamaica International Exhibition (JIE) Business Breakfast, held at the S Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James, on April 16. The JIE is an international trade show, which will be held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre from May 30 to June 1.
President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Howard Mitchell, addresses the Jamaica International Exhibition (JIE) Business Breakfast, held at the S Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James, on April 16. The JIE is an international trade show, which will be held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre from May 30 to June 1.

PSOJ President Says Confidence in Business Community is at Record High
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), samples coco chips at the Clarendon Municipal Corporation-sponsored Clarendon Agro-Economic Symposium, held at St. Gabriel’s Church Hall in May Pen on April 9. At left is the chips maker, Gary Green.
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), samples coco chips at the Clarendon Municipal Corporation-sponsored Clarendon Agro-Economic Symposium, held at St. Gabriel’s Church Hall in May Pen on April 9. At left is the chips maker, Gary Green.

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Consumer and Business Confidence Up

Consumer and business confidence in the economy remain positive, with both indices recording increases for the first quarter of 2019. The consumer confidence index was 177.5 points compared to the 175.5 points in the fourth quarter of 2018, while the business confidence index increased to 151 points. This was disclosed at a press conference held on April 9 at the...
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Chief Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole (left), addresses the opening session of the three-day World Trade Organization (WTO) Regional Workshop on ‘Fisheries Subsidies for Caribbean Countries’, at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in New Kingston, on Tuesday (April 9). Listening keenly WTO Rules Division Counsellor, John Finn, and Legal/Economic Affairs Officer, Taal Sainabou.
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Countries Participate in Fisheries Workshop

More than 30 government officials from 14 countries are in Jamaica taking part in the three-day Wold Trade Organization (WTO) Regional Workshop on ‘Fisheries Subsidies for Caribbean Countries’. The workshop, which opened on Tuesday (April 9) at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in New Kingston, aims to update the participants on the current status and main issues in the global...
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Member of Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness (second left), officially opens the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)  Harbour View branch, on Saturday (April 6). Sharing the occasion are: Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (second right), and (from left) Restaurants of Jamaica (RoJ) Managing Director, Mark Myers, and Marketing Director, Tina Matalon (right).
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Minister Shaw Welcomes Planned Expansion of Restaurants of Jamaica’s Operations

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, has welcomed plans by Restaurants of Jamaica (RoJ) Limited to further expand its flagship Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchise by the end of the 2020 calendar year. Speaking at the official opening of RoJ’s 37th KFC restaurant, in Harbour View, St. Andrew, on Saturday (April 6), Mr. Shaw commended the company’s...
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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (second right), listens to a point being made by Certified Management Consultant, Dr. Nsombi Jaja (left), during a management consulting standard ‘train the trainers’ workshop at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (April 2). Also pictured (from second left) are Senior Consultant in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and ISO 9001:2015 Ambassador, Reginald Budhan; and workshop facilitator, Nick Warn.
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Gov’t Targeting Standards-Driven Transformation for Jamaica

The Government is targeting Jamaica’s transformation to a standards-driven society, through the certification of key State agencies under the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) protocol. This was disclosed by Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, who said his Ministry is working with the entities to attain ISO 9001:2015 certification, which stipulates Quality Management System (QMS) requirements. He...
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Director of Fisheries in the Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, André Kong (left), peruses a document with Chief Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry, Courtney Cole, at the Jamaica Fishermen Co-operative Union Limited annual general meeting, held at The Knutsford Court Hotel on April 2. Mr. Cole read the Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw’s speech at the event.
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New Fisheries Act to Come Into Force Soon

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, says the new Fisheries Act has been promulgated and will come into force soon. He explains that this new law will not only facilitate modern fisheries management and development strategies, and significantly increase the maximum fines for breaches of the law, but will also transform the Fisheries Division into the...
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Commerce

CAC Warns Consumers Not to Divulge Confidential Information

The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is warning consumers to guard against social engineering attacks by nefarious persons. According to Information Technology Manager at the CAC, Andrew Evelyn, the term refers to the use of deception to manipulate persons into divulging confidential or personal information. Speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’, Mr Evelyn said the cybercrime is...
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Illegal Fishing Vessels Forfeited

Jamaica sent a clear message on Friday, March 22, 2019 to illegal fishers poaching in Jamaica’s fishing territory with the forfeiture of two fishing vessels and the criminal conviction of Dominican Republic fishermen, Limbert Valdemura and Manuel Martinez, in the Corporate Area Criminal Court. Valdemura and Martinez are the captains of the two vessels manned by a 54-member crew of...
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