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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (second right) hands over a water pump to Christiana High School Principal, Leecent Wallace (fourth left) at the World Food Day National Ceremony and Exhibition at the Manchester-based school on October 11. The water pump will assist the school to irrigate its orchard crops.Others from left are Kadisha Barnett, Vice Principal Erica Farquharson, Adrelle Clarke, and Chairman of the school’s Board, Dr. Hansel Gillman.

Shaw encourages Jamaicans to plant fruit trees yearly

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 15 Oct 2019    communications   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, is urging Jamaicans to plant a fruit tree per year to commemorate an anniversary or birthday. “The planting of the fruit trees shows that you care about the environment, you care about food security for the poor,” he said. The Minister was delivering an address at the World Food Day National Ceremony and Exhibition, at the Christiana High School in Manchester last Friday (October 11). Mr. Shaw called upon teachers, students and employees to ensure the trees are planted. Mr. Shaw noted that this action is part of the...


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AT WORK: The national task force on the Tropical Race 4 disease, which poses a potential threat to the banana and plantain industry, is chaired by the General Manager of The Banana Board, Mrs Janet Conie (top right), and co-chaired by the Chief Plant Quarantine and Produce Inspector, Miss Sanniel Wilson (top left), and includes stakeholder representatives from 21 relevant ministries, departments, agencies and farms. The task force is charged with monitoring the implementation of measures to prevent the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. cubense from entering the shores of Jamaica as well as to identify control measures, should the fungus actually get here.

Protecting Jamaican Bananas… Task force meets on Tropical Race 4 Disease

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 15 Oct 2019    communications   
As Jamaica moves to implement measures to address the potential threat of the Tropical Race 4 (TR4) disease, which affects bananas, plantains and Heliconia, the national task force, assigned by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries held its first official meeting at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices. Chaired by the General Manager of The Banana Board, Mrs Janet Conie, and co-chaired by the Chief Plant Quarantine and Produce Inspector, Miss Sanniel Wilson, the task force includes stakeholder representatives from 21 relevant ministries, departments, agencies and farms...


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Minister Audley Shaw along with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company Team

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 11 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (3rd left), along with (from left) Chief Technical Director for Special Projects for the Agriculture Portfolio, Roy McNeil; Chief Technical Director for the Industry Portfolio Monique Gibbs; Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC), Isaac Anthony; Chief Risk Management Officer, CCRIF SPC, Dr. Michael Spranger; Dr. Mario Ordaz Schroeder, Risk Management Team, CCRIF SPC; and International Trade Specialist in the Ministry, Dennis Crawford, during a...


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Presentation on Disaster Risk Management

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 11 Oct 2019    communications   
Technical Assistance and Communications Manager, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC), Elizabeth Emmanuel (right), makes a presentation to Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, on Disaster Risk Management, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Others (from 1st left) are Dr. Mario Ordaz Schroeder, Risk Management Team; Chief Risk Management Officer Dr. Michael Spranger; and Chief Executive Officer Isaac Anthony, all of the CCRIF SPC, during a courtesy...


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Minister Shaw greets the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana Team

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 11 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Co-Chairperson of the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana, Bishop Simeon Hall and team, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. The team met with the minister to garner information on Jamaica’s cannabis industry.


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Minister Floyd Green meets with the Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana Team

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 11 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (centre), along with (from 1st left) Director of the Industry Division in the Ministry, Sophia Wellington; Commissioner, The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana (BNCM), Chargrega McPhee-McIntosh; Annouch Arnebrister of the Ministry of Health; Co-Chairperson Bishop Simeon Hall; Co-Chair Quinn McCartney; Commissioner Kenneth Wallace Whitfield; Commissioner Rithmond McKinney, all of the BNCM; and Professor Wayne McLaughlin of the University of the West Indies/Cannabis Licensing Authority,...


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Minister Shaw greets Cho-Chair Quinn McCartney

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 11 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Co-Chairperson of The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana (BNCM), Quinn McCartney, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Mr. McCartney and team met with the minister to garner information on Jamaica’s cannabis industry.


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), addresses a media briefing at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices on October 9. The press briefing was called to update the nation on the potential threat of the Tropical Race 4 (TR4) disease which affects bananas and the Frosty Pod Rot Disease of Cocoa. Jamaica is on high alert to prevent the entry of the TR4 disease into the local banana and plantain industry and is strengthening initiatives to manage the Frosty Pod Rot of Cocoa. Others from left are Chief Plant Quarantine/ Produce Inspector, Sanniel Wilson, Chief Technical Director in the Ministry, Roy McNeil and Permanent Secretary, Dermon Spence.

Agriculture Ministry moves to implement measures to address the potential threat of Tropical Race 4

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 10 Oct 2019    communications   
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is moving apace to implement measures to address the potential threat of the Tropical Race (TR) 4 disease, which affects bananas and plantains. Though the disease is not present in Jamaica, the Ministry, through the Plant Quarantine and Produce Inspection Branch and The Banana Board, remains vigilant and is taking proactive steps to prevent it from entering the island. At a press conference at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens’ office on October 9, Portfolio Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, emphasised that the disease will have devastating...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), greets cocoa farmer Calvin May following a media briefing at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices on October 9. The press briefing was called to update the nation on the potential threat of the Tropical Race 4 (TR4) disease which affects bananas and the Frosty Pod Rot Disease of Cocoa. Jamaica is on high alert to prevent the entry of the TR4 disease into the local banana and plantain industry and is strengthening initiatives to manage the Frosty Pod Rot of Cocoa. At centre is Hugh Briscoe.

Activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project resume

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 10 Oct 2019    communications   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw has ordered the full resumption of the activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project. The Minister made the announcement at a press conference at his Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices on October 9. He said the decision to resume the project was made after it was identified that there was an 87 per cent increase in the production yield of cocoa with a further projected increase of 50 per cent for the fall crop in the areas where the management project took place. “I am assuring the country that Jamaica is on the...


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