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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton (centre), addresses the launch of Jamaica’s first Corporate Governance Code for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) at the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) head office in Kingston on Friday, February 12. He is flanked by PSOJ Chairman, William Mahfood (left), and Managing Director of the Development of Jamaica (DBJ), Milverton Reynolds. The Corporate Governance Code was developed through financial assistance of $1.73 million from the DBJ.
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton (centre), addresses the launch of Jamaica’s first Corporate Governance Code for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) at the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) head office in Kingston on Friday, February 12. He is flanked by PSOJ Chairman, William Mahfood (left), and Managing Director of the Development of Jamaica (DBJ), Milverton Reynolds. The Corporate Governance Code was developed through financial assistance of $1.73 million from the DBJ.

Minster Hylton Welcomes Corporate Governance Code for MSMEs

By: Denise Dennis, February 13, 2016
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton, has lauded the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) for the development and launch of a Corporate Governance Code, designed specifically...
Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Stephen Wedderburn (2nd right), shakes hands with Director of the Pesticide Research Laboratory (PRL), University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Tara Dasgupta (left). Occasion was a ceremony at the Mona Visitor’s Lodge in St. Andrew today (Feb. 9), to celebrate the lab being awarded International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 17025 accreditation to conduct tests for pesticide residue in foods. Others (from 2nd left) are: Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC), Sharonmae Shirley; and Deputy Principal of UWI, Mona, Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa.

Industry Ministry Hails Accreditation of UWI Pesticide Research Lab

By: Denise Dennis, February 11, 2016
Chairman, Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ), Joseph M. Matalon (left), having a light exchange with (from second left), Country Representative, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Therese Turner-Jones; and Managing Director, DBJ, Milverton Reynolds. Occasion was the signing ceremony for a new US$3.5 million Technical Co-operation Agreement (TCA) between the DBJ and the IDB-Multilateral Investment Fund, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, on February 4.

Jamaica Hailed for Taking Lead in Venture Capital

By: Alecia Smith-Edwards, February 8, 2016

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (2nd left), performs the symbolic ribbon cutting exercise to formally open Sutherland Global Services’ New Kingston offices on January 22. Others in foreground (from left): are Chief Commercial Officer, Sutherland Global Services, K.S Kumar; Chief Delivery Officer, Sutherland Global, Jan Uhrich; Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Anthony Hylton; and President, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Dianne Edwards. Others in the background (from left) are: Country Head and Associate Vice President, Sutherland Global Services, Odetta Rockhead Kerr; Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting; and Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, Dr. Andrew Wheatley, who represented the Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Holness.
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BPO Sector to Create 6,000 Jobs

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says that eight of the approximately 40 business process outsourcing (BPO) companies operating in Jamaica have five-year expansion plans that could create...
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By: Chris Patterson, January 26, 2016