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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

President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Howard Mitchell, says confidence within the business community is at a level that he has not seen in a very long time. Delivering the keynote address at the Jamaica International Exhibition...

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.

Markets Identified for Local Produce

Jamaica Chamber of Commerce President, Lloyd Distant Jr.

Consumer and Business Confidence Up

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.

Countries Participate in Fisheries Workshop

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).

Minister Shaw Welcomes Planned Expansion of Restaurants of Jamaica’s Operations

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...

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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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...

President of the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), Gloria Henry (centre), converses with Director with responsibility for BPO and Hospitality at Cable and Wireless (C&W) Business Jamaica, Andrew Fazio (left); and President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce (MBCC), Winston Lawson, during the Outsource2Jamaica Symposium and Expo 2019 pre-conference mingle, on Thursday (March 28), at the Montego Bay Free Zone. in St. James.

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BPIAJ Stages Symposium and Expo

President of the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ), Gloria Henry, says the second staging of Outsource2Jamaica (O2J) Symposium & Expo, to be held in Montego Bay in April, will provide a linkages platform aimed at connecting service providers and vendors with industry practitioners. “This will give service providers and vendors the opportunity to showcase their products and services...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (right), and Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (centre), converse with Hardware and Lumber Limited’s Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, Andrea Green-Browne, during an ‘Economic Opportunities Workshop’ Grant Handover Ceremony in Accompong, St. Elizabeth, on March 22.

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Accompong Targeted for Hemp Pilot

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, says there are plans for a hemp cultivation pilot project in the Maroon community of Accompong, St Elizabeth. Mr. Hutchinson indicated that the Ministry is looking to cultivate 50 acres of the plant for use as raw material in a variety of commercial products, including...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), purchases produce from a farmer during a tour of stalls at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) open day, staged at Brooks Park in the parish on March 22.

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More Local Produce for School-Feeding Programme

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is working with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, and the Ministry of Health to get more local produce into the national school-feeding programme. “We are putting together a… programme where we will say to farmers, ‘produce and we will feed the children from what we grow’, which is more nutritious...