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Minister Shaw greets IICA Country Representative Dr. Elizabeth Johnson

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 08 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Country Representative at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, at the launch of the MSc in Integrated Rural Development programme at the University of Technology, Jamaica on February 7, 2019 in St. Andrew. Others from left are Claire Bernard, Deputy Director General , Planning Institute of Jamaica, and Julia Bonner Douett, director of the Standards Division at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica. The MIRD programme is the first of its kind to be established in...


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Hon. Audley Shaw greets Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), greets Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe use.


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Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence in dialogue with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence (right), in dialogue with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to...


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Minister Shaw converses with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), converses with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda,at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe use.


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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon Audley Shaw (right), purchases carrots from farmer Ricky Robinson of Bull Savannah, St Elizabeth, at the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019. The event was one of the JSE’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.

Use agriculture to grow the economy, says Shaw

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Audley Shaw says the country needs to use agriculture to grow the economy. In doing so, Jamaica could create wealth from the ground up, utilising creative financing with the assistance of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE). Minister Shaw made these comments while delivering the keynote address at the “Market meets Market on the Sea” event, held February 7, 2019 at the waterfront in downtown Kingston. “We cannot grow the economy,” Minister Shaw said, “without growing agriculture.” In this regard, the Minister said, linkages and...


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Hon. Audley Shaw and Managing Director Marlene Street-Forrest view turnip on sale

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
From left, Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, view turnip on sale by a vendor at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Antoinette McKain, Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation, Steven Gooden, CEO, NCB Capital Markets and Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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Minister Shaw discusses castor bean at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea event

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 07 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses castor bean with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and Michael Pryce, Acting Chief Executive Officer at the Agro-Invest Corporation (AIC), during a tour of the AIC’s booth at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.


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BSJ launches standard specifications for structural steel products

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 06 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
In an effort to strengthen and support the building and construction industry in Jamaica, the Bureau of Standards Jamaica, an agency of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in collaboration with the Building and Associated Materials Technical Committee, has developed and established eight standards for adaptation, which will provide minimum requirements for structural steel products. Speaking at the official launch at the BSJ’s Multi-purpose Facility on February 6, 2019, Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw said, “These standards...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), receives a sample of the meal prepared utilizing Jamaica’s indigenous produce from Executive Mission:FoodPossible Chef, Patrice Harris-Henry, at the official launch of Mission:FoodPossible, at the St. John’s Primary School in St. Catherine, on Friday February 1, 2019. The menu consisted of pumpkin-banana bread, green banana salad, barbeque chicken and yamackee - consisting of a mixture of yam, plantain, ackee and pumpkin. Looking on at right is Founder of the programme, Peter Ivey, along with St. John’s Primary students.

St. John’s Primary School students to benefit from school meal programme initiative

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 04 Feb 2019    nicola.wint   
Students at St. John’s Primary School in St. Catherine will now benefit from a school meal programme, which will utilize Jamaica’s indigenous produce such as pumpkin, cassava, yams and green banana, along with other local produce, under an initiative dubbed ‘Mission:FoodPossible’. Mission: FoodPossible seeks to combat global hunger and food insecurity by using locally grown products to make creative, nutritious and low-budget meals and was conceptualized and founded by New York-based Jamaican chef and past student of St. John’s Primary School, Peter Ivey. Speaking at the official launch of ‘...


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