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December 2024
 

Honourable Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, displays a copy of the Compulsory Standards (Declaration of Standard Specification) (Brown Cane Sugar [Revised]) Order, 2016, which was gazetted on Friday, December 30. Minister Samuda was speaking at a media briefing to discuss the new standards governing the packaging and labelling of brown sugar at the ministry’s offices in New Kingston. At right is Permanent Secretary, Donovan Stanberry.

New Brown Sugar Standard Gazetted

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 30 Dec 2016    communications   
The Government has completed the standards governing the packaging and labelling of brown sugar. The Compulsory Standards (Declaration of Standard Specification) (Brown Sugar [Revised]) Order, 2016 was signed by Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, on Thursday, December 29 and was gazetted on Friday, December 30, 2016. The new standard revokes the Compulsory Standards (Declaration of Standard Specification) (Brown Cane Sugar) Order, 1985. Under the new labelling system, brown sugar sold on the local market will be packaged to guarantee the integrity of...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda.

Ministerial Order on Frosty Pod Rot of Cocoa Disease Withdrawn

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 30 Dec 2016    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Karl Samuda has withdrawn the Ministerial Order for the Frosty Pod Rot of Cocoa Disease (Moniliophthora roreri) that was issued in late September under Section 3 of the Plants Quarantine Act 1993. The lifting of the Order follows the recommendation by the Plant Quarantine/Produce Inspection Branch of the Ministry to withdraw the Order for the entire island. The recommendation is consistent with the findings from the delimiting survey report, which was conducted by the Plant Health Coordinating Committee. Whilst the recommendation...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda.

No Evidence of Plastic in Rice Samples Tested So Far

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 23 Dec 2016    communications   
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica has indicated that there is no indication of contamination in the fifty- five (55) samples of rice that it has tested to date. The samples of both cooked and uncooked rice were collected from nine (9) locations across the island and included those taken from a complainant who appeared in a CVM TV news report on Friday, December 16. The samples were subjected to starch, moisture content, floating and flame tests as well as Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analyses. Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda says the...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda addressing a press conference to update the country on the importation of rice held at the Ministry’s St. Lucia office on Tuesday, December 13, 2016. Looking on is Acting Permanent Secretary, Mr. Reginald Budhan.

Minister Samuda Says No Reason to Fear “Fake” Rice

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 14 Dec 2016    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda has moved to allay the fears of Jamaican consumers following reports of an unconfirmed case of plastic contaminated rice in Jamaica. Speaking at a media briefing Tuesday afternoon at the ministry’s 4 St. Lucia Avenue offices, the Agriculture Minister said every effort is being made by the Government to safeguard the health of consumers. Minister Samuda said that there has been no evidence of plastic in the samples tested by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica to date. The samples were taken from supermarkets in Manchester...


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Head of the Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Kevin Francis. The Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit was established on March 2, 2015 through a partnership formed between the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of National Security.

Farmers Encouraged to Secure Crop and Livestock During Christmas Season

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 07 Dec 2016    communications   
Head of the Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kevin Francis, is advising farmers and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector to take extra precaution to secure crop and livestock to prevent theft during the Christmas season. “Where it is Christmas or festive seasons, you find there is a spike in the theft of animals, especially goats and pigs. We try to engage the community relations part of the praedial-larceny programme to reduce these incidents,” he says. The Jamaica Constabulary Force, which is leading the anti-praedial larceny programme, has...


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