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April 2018
 

30 April 2018

Hon Audley Shaw (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries(MICAF), consults with the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry, at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar, held at Devon, Manchester, on April 26. At left is Alvin Murray, Senior Agricultural Coordinator, PROPEL/WUSC Caribbean.

Minister Shaw commends Irish potato farmers

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Manchester farmers produced 70% of the Irish potatoes reaped in Jamaica for the 2017-2018 season which have earned them the praises of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, who addressed them at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar in Devon, Manchester, on April 26. For the July 2017-September 2018 season, some 900 hectares of Irish potato have been planted and 14 million lbs. harvested to date. “Our mission must be to produce enough Irish potato to satisfy the local market as well as export to other Caribbean countries, Minister Shaw said.”...


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Minister Shaw addresses farmers at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), addressing farmers at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar, held at Devon, Manchester, on April 26. Others from left are the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio at MICAF, and CEO of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority Peter Thompson.


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National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Ansel Golaub (left) of A&L Golaub & Sons marketing company speaking with (from left) the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio, and Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, both of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar at Devon, Manchester, on April 26.


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Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, poses with the Jamaica 4-H Clubs National Boy and Girl of the Year, Shanique Dawkins from Clarendon and Rovani Scott of Hanover, along with Dr. Ronald Blake (right), Executive Director, and Colin Virgo, director; both of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, at the National Achievement Expo on April 27 at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon. The Boy and Girl of the Year received $1 million from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Shaw urges 4-H clubbites to pursue excellence

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, is urging the country’s over 104,000 4-H Club members to pursue excellence and to make a difference in all they do. “Don’t let anybody tamper with your ambition,” the Minister told the young people, as he addressed them at the Jamaica 4-H Clubs National Achievement Expo held Friday, April 27 at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon. Minister Shaw, who himself had been a National 4-H Club President, congratulated the movement for the 17% growth in membership over the past three years. This, he said, made the Jamaica...


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Minister Shaw samples cassava punch

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, samples cassava punch along with Executive Director of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs Dr. Ronald Blake during a tour of the Hanover booth at the National Achievement Expo, held in Denbigh, Clarendon, on April 27. At right is Parish Manager Errol Wynter.


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Minister Shaw at the National Achievement Expo

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, shares a light moment with (from left) Maxwell Rodney, Westmoreland Parish Manager; Colin Virgo, director; and Dr. Ronald Blake, Executive Director; all of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs; at the National Achievement Expo held in Denbigh, Clarendon, on April 27.


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Jamaica Director, The Nature Conservancy, Donna Oniss Blake (left), presents Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, with an orchid plant, at the opening ceremony of the Jamaica Horticultural Society (JHS) Flower Show, held under the theme, “Nature’s Beauty – Our Duty”, at the JHS Show Grounds, Hope Pastures, Kingston, on Friday, April 27, 2018.

Great opportunities for Jamaica’s horticultural industry- Minister Shaw

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 30 Apr 2018    nicola.wint   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw says that there are tremendous opportunities to be gained from the horticultural industry in Jamaica. According to Minister Shaw Jamaica has the potential to turn the horticultural industry and flowers into a great export commodity. “We must seek to isolate a number of our flowers that are unique to Jamaica and turn them into an industrial export commodity so that we can really create jobs, earn some great profit and also some well needed foreign exchange”, the Minister stated. Minister Shaw was speaking at the opening...


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