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2017 – 2018 Conch Close Season begins September 1

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 21 Aug 2017    communications   
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture & Fisheries, Fisheries Division hereby informs the public that the 2017 - 2018 Close Season for Conch will be in effect September 1, 2017 through to April 1, 2018. During this period the fishing of queen conch is strictly prohibited by law. Under the Fishing Industry (Conservation of Conch (Genus: Strombus)) Regulations, 2000 every licensed fisherman and every person in charge of commercial cold storage facilities, hotels and eating establishments, planning to have conch meat in storage during the Close Season for Conch must be aware of the...


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Agriculture Minister Hails Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit Following Shutdown of Illegal Slaughterhouse

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 18 Aug 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda has hailed the Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force for its quick action on the weekend, which resulted in the arrest of four men, seizure of over 2000 pounds of uninspected meat and the closure of an illegal slaughterhouse. The lawmen, who were acting on information, made the find after trailing men from St. Thomas to an address in St. Andrew last Saturday. The St. Andrew address is believed to be a hub for the collection of stolen meat, which is then passed off to meat shops for sale...


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Minister Samuda, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Lori-Ann Lyn at the CB Group’s Unveiling of the Nest ceremony

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 18 Aug 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (1st right), engages (from left) Managing Director, CB Group, Lori-Ann Lyn; and Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, in conversation at the CB Group’s Unveiling of the Nest ceremony, held at the Hill Run Farms in St. Catherine, on Friday, August 18, 2017. The Nest will be home to a $15 billion poultry processing plant.


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Prime Minister The Most Hon. Andrew Holness participates in breaking of ground at the CB Group’s Unveiling of the Nest ceremony

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 18 Aug 2017    communications   
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (2nd left), participates in the breaking of ground at the CB Group’s Unveiling of the Nest ceremony, held at the Hill Run Farms in St. Catherine, on Friday, August 18, 2017. Others from left are Chief Executive Officer, Mark Haskins; Managing Director, Lori-Ann Lyn, of the CB Group; Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda; and Director (CB Group), Mathew Lyn. The Nest will be home to a $15 billion poultry processing plant.


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Crooked River Skills Training Centre

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 17 Aug 2017    communications   
From left, Stefano Cilli, Attaché/Programme Manager, Rural Development and Environment, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands; Horace Dalley, Member of Parliament for Northern Clarendon; Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; and Elizabeth Terry, Senior Director at the HEART Trust/NTA; in conversation at the Partners’ Appreciation Ceremony held at the Crooked River Skills Training Centre in Clarendon on August 11.


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (left), Prime Minister The Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre) and President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Norman Grant, at the 2017 Denbigh Agriculture Show in Clarendon.

Monymusk Factory to Remain Open to Protect Interest of Farmers

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 17 Aug 2017    communications   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda, has instructed that the Monymusk Sugar Factory remains open until cane farmers crops have been reaped. Addressing the official opening of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show in May Pen, Clarendon, on August 5, Mr. Samuda noted that the move was necessary to protect the interest of the farmers. “My job, as I understand it, is to do everything in my power to make our people better off…not to shut them off from their livelihood and let them suffer out there…that is not my philosophy,” he said. Additionally,...


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Students prepare His Excellency Masanori Nakano, Ambassador of Japan, for a shampoo during a tour of the Crooked River Skills Training Centre in Clarendon on Friday, August 11. Others from left are Stefano Cilli, Attache Programme Manager, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica; Keleen Young-Grandison, Manager of the Sugar Transformation Unit; and Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Stanberry says agriculture critical to rural development

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 12 Aug 2017    communications   
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry, has said that agriculture is critical to rural development. He was speaking at an appreciation function held at the Crooked River Skills Training Centre in Clarendon on Friday, August 12. Noting the migration of people from rural areas to urban centres, the Permanent Secretary said that Jamaica needs a renewed emphasis on rural development and emphasised that economic development, without addressing the social imperative of the people in the community is unsustainable “We believe that...


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Permanent Secretary Donovan Stanberry (left) receives champion black bull trohpy on behalf of Bodles

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 11 Aug 2017    communications   
Permanent Secretary Donovan Stanberry (left) receives champion black bull trohpy on behalf of Bodles from Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness (2nd right), at the Denbigh 2017 Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, at the Denbigh Showground, Clarendon, on Monday, August 7, 2017. Also sharing in the moment from left are Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda; and President, Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS)/Chairman, Denbigh Show Committee, Norman Grant.


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Minister Samuda (centre) with National Farm Queen 2017 contestants at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show

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 11 Aug 2017    communications   
Minister Samuda greets some of the National Farm Queen 2017 contestants at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show in May Pen, Clarendon, on Saturday, August 5, 2017. Also looking on are Minister of Health, Agriculture and Human Services, Turks and Caicos Islands, Hon. Edwin Astwood (left); and President, Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS)/Chairman, Denbigh Show Committee, Norman Grant.


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