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The Mass Metrology Laboratory of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) has been designated as the Regional Reference Laboratory, making it the first of its kind in the region. The designation, by the CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality (CROSQ), is in recognition of the BSJ’s capabilities in mass metrology and the value of these capabilities to the development...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, has called on young people to turn away from illegal activities and use their skills for production and wealth creation. Speaking at the Granville Crime Prevention Summit, held at the Sunset Beach and Spa in Montego Bay, on January 31, Mrs. Ffolkes-Abrahams said she will be...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says the scrap metal trade is not to be blamed for every theft of metal, either from a private or public space. The Minister was responding to a concern raised in the House of Representatives on January 29 that the re-opening of the scrap metal trade poses a risk to public...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, is encouraging members of the Consular Corps to assist in attracting investment from the global trading community, in the development of Jamaica’s global transshipment and logistics hub. Mr. Hylton extended the invitation during an awards dinner hosted by the Consular Corps of Jamaica for visiting directors of the World Federation of...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, has given the Government’s commitment to continue to work towards ensuring that more local companies can gain access to overseas markets. He made the comment during a tour of Rainforest Seafoods’ new state-of-the-art facilities on Friday (January 25) on Slipe Pen Road in Kingston, where he lauded the company’s efforts towards...

Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says Jamaica is well advanced in its plan to expand the Port of Kingston. The port will be ready to accommodate supersized vessels when the Panama Canal expansion is complete in 2015. Minister Hylton pointed out that Jamaica is already a major trans-shipment corridor and a leading trans-shipment point for containerized cargo...

Scrap metal traders will have to abide by a number of stringent rules to keep their licences, when the trade officially resumes on Monday, January 28. Announcing a raft of rigourous regulations at a press briefing at his New Kingston offices on Thursday (Jan. 24), Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, said there is a global demand...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, says the establishment of the Jamaica Logistics Hub is aimed at stimulating and sustaining growth in the medium and long term, while totally transforming the country’s economy. “This is the most transformative economic activity that we will undertake as a government, in partnership with the Jamaican private sector, the global investment...

The food testing laboratory of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), has become the first such facility in Jamaica to become accredited to international standards. The SRC received its certificate of accreditation from the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC), today (January 22), at a special ceremony at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston. Speaking at the event, Minister of Industry,...

In an effort to improve the island’s Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) sector, the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) has partnered with two entities to assist them with implementing standards and/or quality systems within their organisations. To this end, two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed on January 17, between the BSJ and the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association (JMA); and...

The Government’s logistics hub initiative will be a global asset of the scale and significance of the world’s other leading hubs in Rotterdam, Singapore, and Dubai. At a meeting with government communicators at Jamaica House on Thursday, March 28, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, emphasized that the hub will have far-reaching economic benefits beyond basic transshipment...

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Harold Davis, says the creative industry is perhaps Jamaica’s greatest opportunity for continued and sustained international competitiveness. “Indeed, our indigenous and endogenous products and services inspired from these products and facilities, form the basis of what we think is sustainable competitiveness for us as a country,” he said. Mr....