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Industry, Investment, and Commerce State Minister, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams (right), is shown a bag of organic charcoal by Bamboo Industry Association (BIA) President, Robert Rainford, while admiring items manufactured locally from bamboo. Occasion was the launch of the Bamboo Industry Association (BIA) on November 4 at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston. Looking on (from 2nd left) are: Director, Special Projects, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Gladstone Rose; President, Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), Hugh Johnson; and BSJ Chairman, Professor Winston Davidson.
Industry, Investment, and Commerce State Minister, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams (right), is shown a bag of organic charcoal by Bamboo Industry Association (BIA) President, Robert Rainford, while admiring items manufactured locally from bamboo. Occasion was the launch of the Bamboo Industry Association (BIA) on November 4 at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston. Looking on (from 2nd left) are: Director, Special Projects, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Gladstone Rose; President, Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), Hugh Johnson; and BSJ Chairman, Professor Winston Davidson.

Bamboo Industry Association Launched

By: Douglas McIntosh , November 5, 2015
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) and the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) have partnered to establish the country’s first ever Bamboo Industry Association (BIA). The BIA forms part...
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, addresses the official launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week at the ATL Automotive Centre in Kingston on Friday October 30. The week will run from November 16 to 21 under the theme: ‘Going for G.R.O.W.T.H’.

Global Entrepreneurship Week A Good Opportunity For Young Business People – Hylton

By: Rodger Hutchinson , November 5, 2015
President of Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards (2nd left), sharing pleasantries at a press briefing, held today (October 28), at the Terra Nova Hotel, in St. Andrew, to announce an investment by Gulfray Americas and China National Automotive Industry International Corporation (CNAICO), worth over US$350 million to operate the Spanish Town Free Zone, in St. Catherine. Others (from left) are: Chairman of Jamaica Logistics Hub Taskforce, Dr. Eric Deans; Executive Director for Masada Jamaica, Dr. Robert Melamede; Director of Gulfray Americas Manufacturing, Jacob Shnurman; and Executive Director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI), Dr. Fritz Pinnock.

JAMPRO Facilitates US$350 Million Free Zone Investment

By: Garfield L. Angus, October 28, 2015

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