PRESS RELEASE - Directors and secretaries of the more than 30,000 delinquent companies on the company register may have their names, and that of the entities they operate, published on a quarterly basis as the Companies Office of Jamaica seeks to enforce compliance. Companies that will make the list for publication are those that the Agency’s compliance officers have made...

Come July 1, it will be mandatory for pre-packaged brown and granulated sugar to be appropriately labelled. This was announced by Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, during a press conference at his New Kingston offices on June 23. Mr. Samuda noted that this is in keeping with the revised mandatory standards for brown cane sugar,...

Negotiations are far advanced with a motor-vehicle manufacturer to operate out of one of the six special economic zones (SEZs) that have already been designated by the Government.         Chairman of the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority, Metry Seaga, said that the entity’s operations will mainly entail assembly.  “We actually have some of the vehicles here now, and it’s a programme...

Over the next three years, small business owners will benefit from training and other support services under a partnership between the National Development Foundation of Jamaica (NDFJ) and the Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Alliance. Representatives from both entities formalised this partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the offices of the Ministry of Industry,...

Ever since securing the United States Embassy as a major client at the first staging of the ‘Christmas in July’ trade show in 2015, Marketing Director of Sidcile Craft Limited, Sydia Brown-Griffiths, anxiously awaits the event each year. In that year, Mrs. Brown-Griffiths was requested to satisfy an order of approximately 200 custom-made straw iPad cases for the Embassy, and...

President of the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), Hugh Johnson, says the upcoming Caribbean Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) Conference is an opportunity for partnerships to be built with other small businesses within the region. “We think it’s high time for the small players within the region to get to know each other, to come together and to...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, is urging food producers, especially those involved in exports, to initiate work to become certified. He cited the international standard, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification, as relevant to the food industry. “This will enable our food-producing businesses to access export markets. Lack of certification could constitute non-tariff barriers...