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Minister Shaw Looking to Link Small Ganja Farmers with Large Processors

By: , September 10, 2018
Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (right), responds to questions from journalists during the Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) media sensitisation seminar at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on Thursday (August 30). The seminar, which was held under the theme ‘Statistics and the Media – Why Understanding Official Data Matters’, was aimed at assisting media practitioners to understand, interpret and present official data accurately. It focused on the gross domestic product and consumer price index. Listening (from left) are STATIN Director General, Carol Coy;  Deputy Director General, Leesha Delatie-Budair, and Head of the Institute’s Indices and Price Analyses Unit, Shelly-Ann Chambers.

Growth in Mining and Quarrying Sector

By: , September 2, 2018

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