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Hon J.C. Hutchinson (right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, presents the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation Ltd’s Best of St. Bess Golden Award to Allison and Oral Turner of Turner’s Innovations Ltd for innovation in agriculture at the Homecoming Awards Brunch in St. Elizabeth on December 1, 2019. The Turners created the first sorrel harvesting machine. Other awardees included the National Irrigation Commission, Rural Agricultural Development Authority and farmer Desmond Whitely. The St Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation, now in its 26th year, hosts Homecoming celebrations annually.

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (right) addresses the audience at a job fair hosted by the HEART/Trust NTA in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) and the Rural Agricultural Authority (RADA), at Pawsey Park in Lionel Town, Clarendon on November 29. The job fair sought to target displaced sugar workers, their families, and community members from the Monymusk area and is a planned strategy by the Government to provide assistance to the displaced sugar workers.