Students prepare His Excellency Masanori Nakano, Ambassador of Japan, for a shampoo during a tour of the Crooked River Skills Training Centre in Clarendon on Friday, August 11. Others from left are Stefano Cilli, Attache Programme Manager, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica; Keleen Young-Grandison, Manager of the Sugar Transformation Unit; and Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.
Stanberry says agriculture critical to rural development
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry, has said that agriculture is critical to rural development. He was speaking at an appreciation function held at the Crooked River Skills Training Centre in Clarendon on Friday, August 12. Noting the migration of people from rural areas to urban centres, the Permanent Secretary said that Jamaica needs a renewed emphasis on rural development and emphasised that economic development, without addressing the social imperative of the people in the community is unsustainable “We believe that...
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