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Samples of masks produced by local micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The MSMEs were guided in the production of the masks by the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC).

Several MSMEs Making Face Masks

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 18 Apr 2020    communications   
Several micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) have answered the Government’s call to provide innovative solutions in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) by producing protective face masks. Technical Services Manager, Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Colin Porter, tells JIS News the Corporation has been working with its MSME clients to produce face masks using the recommended health and safety specifications. The production of the masks is being guided by the JBDC, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Wellness. “The JBDC was approached by the Ministry...


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Hon. Floyd Green, MP, Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Industry State Minister Says Country Still Open For Business

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 18 Apr 2020    communications   
Jamaica is “still open for business”, even as the Government continues to prioritise the health and safety of its citizens. This is the message from State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green. “Even with our emphasis and priority on keeping our citizens safe, ensuring that we take the decisions that are in the best interest of the health of our nationals, we have done so while ensuring that business can continue,” he said. The State Minister’s comments were made during the Jamaican American Youth Alliance (JAYA) ‘Young People Talk COVID-...


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Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, along with Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence (right) and Lenworth Fulton, President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, at the virtual launch of the 37th commemoration of Farmer’s Month on April 9, 2020. Minister Shaw commended the farmers for their contribution to the 7.8 per cent in growth in domestic crop production in the last quarter of 2019 and for their donation of $7.5 million worth of crops to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security for its COVID-19 relief programmes.

Shaw commends farmers for consistent supply of food in light of COVID-19 pandemic

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 09 Apr 2020    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, has commended farmers across the country for ensuring that there is a consistent supply of food items in the island in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the virtual launch of Farmer’s Month 2020, at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices in Kingston on April 9, Mr. Shaw extended commendations to those farmers who donated produce to a relief programme led by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. “Over $7.5million worth of crops has been donated by farmers to that Ministry,” he said. Additionally, Mr. Shaw...


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The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) Corporate Communications Manager, Suzette Campbell.

JBDC Begins Series Of Webinars For MSMEs On April 7

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 09 Apr 2020    communications   
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) is launching a weekly series of webinars called ‘JBDC Virtual Biz Zone’, for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), with the first session scheduled for Tuesday, April 7. Speaking with JIS News, JBDC’s Corporate Communications Manager, Suzette Campbell, said the organisation would be emphasising business continuity as industries grapple with the effect of the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. “We want them to focus on re-strategising and getting their businesses online. We want businesses not to focus on the negative impact of the...


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President of the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards​.

Agriculture Sector To Play Key Role In Country’s Recovery

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 09 Apr 2020    communications   
President of the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards, says Jamaica’s agriculture sector will be key to the country’s recovery from the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic. She told JIS News that the large acreages of land currently under production, as well as the linkages with other sectors, present a number of opportunities for Jamaican entrepreneurs to exploit. She noted that increasing production to supply the demand for Jamaican produce would position the country to recover quickly. “We have supply lines, we have markets that have already been identified and, in fact, in...


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Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (centre), in discussion with Vice President of Dencon Foods Limited, Nicholas Duke (left), and Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Acting Parish Manager for St. Ann, Sheldon Scott, at Dencon's Spring Plain facility in Clarendon, on April 7.

Government Secures Local Buyer For Excess Irish Potato

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 09 Apr 2020    communications   
The Government has secured a buyer for half of the excess amount of Irish potato produced by small farmers. Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, said the purchase of 400,000 pounds of Irish potatoes by the Clarendon-based Dencon Foods Limited is significant, as the farmers are unable to sell more than 800,000 pounds of the produce due to the downturn in hotel operations caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe. He was speaking at the company’s Spring Plain facility in Clarendon, where the first...


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President, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards.

JAMPRO Focused On Stimulating Economic Activity

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 09 Apr 2020    communications   
The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) is implementing measures to stimulate economic activity as the country grapples with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The objective is to ensure that the economy can bounce back quickly once the worst has passed. President of JAMPRO, Diane Edwards, tells JIS News that focus is being placed on agriculture and agribusiness through, among other things, helping farmers to access new markets. “We have to… help those farmers who have excess production… both in terms of increasing supply to the supermarkets or increasing purchasing by people in...


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MSMEs STAND TO BENEFIT FROM FORMALIZATION

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 08 Apr 2020    ICTAdmin   
2020, April 7: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are being urged to become formalized to benefit from government assistance, which may help them continue their business after the threat posed by the corona virus pandemic has ended. Among the offerings announced recently by the government in the recent 2020/2021 Budget presentation, are a $375,000 tax credit, and a $100,000 cash grant for MSMEs. The aim, according to Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Nigel Clarke is to minimize the tax burden on small taxpaying business operators, and to encourage more persons to become formalized...


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Hon J. C. Hutchinson (2nd right), Minister without Portfolio, and the Hon Floyd Green (2nd left), State Minister, both of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), along with Peter Thompson (left), Chief Executive Officer, Rural Agricultural Development Authority; and Peter McConnell, Managing Director of Trade Winds Limited, view tomato puree at the Tru-Juice Processing Plant in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, on April 6, 2020.  The Ministry, through RADA, is collaborating with Trade Winds Citrus Ltd. to process excess fruits and vegetables into puree, which will then be made into juices for the national school-feeding programme. 

Agri Ministry collaborates with Tru-Juice to process excess produce

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 07 Apr 2020    ICTAdmin   
As it continues its assistance programme to redistribute excess produce from farmers as the country faces the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries has collaborated with Trade Winds Limited, manufacturers of the Tru-Juice brand of juices, to process excess fruit and vegetables. The Ministry, through RADA, last week put systems in place to support the movement of the produce from farmers in St Elizabeth to the factory in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, where processing began Monday, April 6 with an initial 5,000 lbs of tomatoes. On a tour of the factory to...


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Queen Conch Close Season Extended

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 03 Apr 2020    ICTAdmin   
The National Fisheries Authority (NFA), an agency of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, wishes to advise the public that the Queen Conch Close Season remains in effect until February 28, 2021. This follows a scientific assessment of the Queen Conch stocks on the Pedro Bank that was conducted during October 2019. Based on the assessment, it has been determined by the National Fisheries Authority and the Natural Resources and Conservation Authority that the conch stocks have not recovered sufficiently to allow for the opening of the Conch Fishing Season in 2020...


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