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MOU With Chinese Government Will Not Allow Chinese Vessels or Fishers to Fish in Local Waters

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 27 Oct 2017    communications   
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries has taken note of discussions in the press relating to a Memorandum of Understanding between MICAF and the Ministry of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China. The MOU, which was signed on September 22, 2017, deals specifically with hygiene, sanitation and certification matters to allow for cooperation between Jamaica and China on sanitary and phytosanitary issues in order to permit the export of Jamaican live lobsters to China. It does not allow Chinese vessels or...


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Deputy Director Wend Wendland speaking at the National Consultative Workshop

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 27 Oct 2017    communications   
Deputy Director, Traditional Knowledge Division, Global, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Wend Wendland, speaking at the National Consultative Workshop on Issues and Options in Developing a National Policy Legislation on Intellectual Property and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Genetic Resources. The workshop, organized by the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), an agency of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, was held at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Seated...


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National Consultative Workshop on Issues and Options in Developing a National Policy and Legislation on Intellectual Property...

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 27 Oct 2017    communications   
Executive Director, Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), Lilyclaire Bellamy (2nd left), in dialogue with (from left) Deputy Director and Legal Counsel, JIPO, Dr. Marcus Goffe; Deputy Director, Traditional Knowledge Division, Global, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Wend Wendland; and Attorney-at-Law and Senior Lecturer, Faculty at Law (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Sharon Le Gall, at the National Consultative Workshop on Issues and Options in Developing a National Policy and Legislation on Intellectual Property and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Traditional...


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MOU With Chinese Government Will Not Allow Chinese Vessels or Fishers to Fish in Local Waters

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 27 Oct 2017    communications   
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries has taken note of discussions in the press relating to a Memorandum of Understanding between MICAF and the Ministry of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China. The MOU, which was signed on September 22, 2017, deals specifically with hygiene, sanitation and certification matters to allow for cooperation between Jamaica and China on sanitary and phytosanitary issues in order to permit the export of Jamaican live lobsters to China. It does not allow Chinese vessels or...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (center) in discussions with Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry’s Fisheries Division, Lieutenant Commander Paul Wright and a fisherman on the Pedro Cays. Minister Samuda visited Middle Cay on the Pedro Banks on Wednesday, October 18 to discuss waste management solutions for the cay.

Better Waste Management System to be put in place on Pedro Cays

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 20 Oct 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda has made a committment to take the necessary steps to improve conditions for fishermen on the Pedro Cays. Minister Samuda, who was speaking on Wednesday, October 18, while on a tour of Middle Cay on the Pedro Bank, said a multi- ministry approach will be taken to urgently solve the solid and human waste issues facing persons on the cays. The Minister was accompanied on the tour by officials from the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), the Fisheries...


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Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organizations Bill Passed

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 20 Oct 2017    communications   
Parliament has passed the Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organizations Bill, which seeks to modernise the agricultural sector to meet the nation’s growing demands of food security and productivity. The Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organisations Act also facilitates the dissolution of the Agricultural Credit Board (ACB) and transfers the Board’s monitoring and regulatory functions to the Registrar of Co-operative and Friendly Societies. The Bill repeals the Agricultural Credit Board act. It also establishes the Agricultural Appeal Tribunal and provides for the...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (center) in discussions with Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry’s Fisheries Division, Lieutenant Commander Paul Wright and a fisherman on the Pedro Cays. Minister Samuda visited Middle Cay on the Pedro Banks on Wednesday, October 18 to discuss waste management solutions for the cay.

Better Waste Management System to be put in place on Pedro Cays

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 20 Oct 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda has made a committment to take the necessary steps to improve conditions for fishermen on the Pedro Cays. Minister Samuda, who was speaking on Wednesday, October 18, while on a tour of Middle Cay on the Pedro Bank, said a multi- ministry approach will be taken to urgently solve the solid and human waste issues facing persons on the cays. The Minister was accompanied on the tour by officials from the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), the Fisheries...


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Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organizations Bill Passed

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 20 Oct 2017    communications   
Parliament has passed the Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organizations Bill, which seeks to modernise the agricultural sector to meet the nation’s growing demands of food security and productivity. The Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organisations Act also facilitates the dissolution of the Agricultural Credit Board (ACB) and transfers the Board’s monitoring and regulatory functions to the Registrar of Co-operative and Friendly Societies. The Bill repeals the Agricultural Credit Board act. It also establishes the Agricultural Appeal Tribunal and provides for the...


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Ms. Paulette Kirkland, Director of Research Training and Development at the Department of Co-operatives and Friendly Societies (right) and Mr. Christopher Samuda, Attorney-at-Law (centre), listen attentively to Mr. Vivian Brown, Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries. The occasion was a conference and symposium staged by the Department of Co-operatives and Friendly Societies at the Montego Bay Conference Centre on October 19, 2017, in celebration of International Credit Union Day.

Co-operatives critical to economic growth and development- Ministry rep

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 20 Oct 2017    communications   
Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr Vivian Brown, says that co-operatives are increasingly becoming drivers of economic growth and development. He noted that through their critical role in business development they have been having a direct impact on the type and quality of economic development the country is now seeing. The director general who was addressing participants at a one-day conference and symposium hosted by the Department of Co-operatives and Friendly Societies (DFCS), at the Montego Bay Conference Centre, Rose Hall, on Thursday,...


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Hon. Karl Samuda speaking at the Signing of a Tripartite Agreement

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 20 Oct 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Karl Samuda, speaking at the issuing of licences involving the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), Everything Oily Labs Limited and Epican Medicinals Limited, held at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 18, 2017. Seated from left are Chief Executive Officer, Greg Douglas and Chairman, Cindy Lightbourne, of the CLA. The CLA is an agency of MICAF.


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