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December 2024
 

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Floyd Green (2nd left) listens attentively to a point made by President of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education, Dr. Derrick Deslandes (second right), at the launch of Moody’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises lending masterclass workshop, at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Wednesday, January 15, 2020. Others from left are International Consultant of Consultancy Inc., Dr. Charlene Ashley; and Principal Management Consultant at the Business Works Collective, Andrea Livingston-Prince. MICAF’s MSME Division, in collaboration with Business Works Collective launched the programme to assist in the development of SMEs.

Government prioritizing 20 per cent procurement spend for small businesses

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 15 Jan 2020    communications   
Government is placing priority on ensuring that Jamaica’s small businesses will benefit from 20 per cent share of the Government’s procurement spend this year. Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, who made the disclosure noted that the process started late last year and will be increased this year. “For a very long time our small businesses have advocated that the government should use some of the resources that it puts into procurement to help drive and grow small businesses. The passage of the Government’s Public Procurement...


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From left, Deputy Chairman of First Rock Capital Resource Limited, Philip Martin, and Dr. Michael Banbury, Co-founder and Chairman of First Rock Capital Holdings, converse with the Hon. Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the First Rock Capital Holdings IPO Investors Briefing, held in St. Andrew on January 9, 2020. In addition to Jamaica, First Rock has investments in Cayman, Costa Rica and the United States. Its IPO will open on January 13 and is aimed at attracting and investing some $2 billion.

Shaw calls for improved productivity to enhance workers’ wealth

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 10 Jan 2020    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, has emphasised the need for improvement in the country’s productivity as a means of enhancing workers’ wealth. “We have to focus on improving the quality and productivity of country so that our workers can get a better paycheque that can enhance their own wealth in a productive way,” said Minister Shaw. Speaking at the First Rock Capital Holdings Investors Brief in St. Andrew on January 9, Minister Shaw stated that the country needed to change its focus to that of building wealth in the brain of its population where...


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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), is delighted by the conversation between Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (right), and Myanmar’s Country Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Farmer-to-Farmer Programme, Dr. Ai Thanda Kyaw. Occasion was the 2020 staging of the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Conference, held at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston on January 6.

Agricultural transformation coming for St. Catherine

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 08 Jan 2020    communications   
Agricultural land transformation in sections of St. Catherine that will bring wealth to several farmers in the area is scheduled to get under way over the next six to twelve months. Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, says the areas of focus will include Bernard Lodge and Innswood in the parish, which amounts to roughly 6,000 acres of land. “This will be a dynamic partnership of large business operators and small farmers…These large business people have the financial capacity and the technology capacity to work with farmers in a mother farm concept and...


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Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Peter Thompson (centre), presents farmer Keisha Vassel (right) with a certificate of completion, at a graduation ceremony at the Church of God of Prophecy on Old Harbour Road in St. Catherine on December 18. At left is Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney.

400 farmers benefit from training to improve technical skills and livelihood

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 20 Dec 2019    communications   
Four hundred farmers were presented with certificates of completion on Wednesday (December 18), after an eight-month capacity building training programme geared at improving their technical skills, livelihood and overall earning potential. The training programme was facilitated under the ninth cycle of the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF), which is aimed at contributing to the improvement in the living conditions of poor and vulnerable communities. It is being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to the tune of US$8.9...


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Minister without Portfolio in the Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (centre), cuts a ribbon to symbolically open Marl Road in St. Elizabeth on December 19. Mr. Hutchinson is joined by Member of Parliament for North East St. Elizabeth Evon Redman (left) and Chief Executive Officer, Rural Agricultural Development Authority, Peter Thompson. The road opening is part of the National Farm Road Rehabilitation Programme, established by the Ministry and implemented by the RADA for the rehabilitation of roadways so that farmers and marketers have easy access to purchase and transport produce.

January 2020 deadline set for submission of requests for repairs of farm roads

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 20 Dec 2019    communications   
A deadline of mid-January 2020 has been set for requests to be submitted for repairs of farm roads. The announcement was made by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, at the opening of two farm roads, Marl Road in Balaclava and the other in Castleton, St. Elizabeth on December 19. The introduction of the requirement for submission of requests forms is among the measures being undertaken to ensure accountability and transparency in the rehabilitation of roadways under the National Farm Road Rehabilitation Programme...


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