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Hon Karl Samuda (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, tours banana farm of Winsome Crosdale (right) in Canewood, Portland, which was severely impacted by the flooding caused by the recent rains. Minister Samuda was accompanied by representatives of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, including Peter Thompson (left), chief executive officer, and Michael Stern (in the background), chairman. According to Miss Crosdale, some 40 per cent of the mature fruits on the 10-acre property were lost, the irrigation system was disrupted and rubble from the Swift River was deposited on to the property.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (centre), hands over the accreditation certificate for the Veterinary Services Division (VSD) Diagnostic Laboratory to Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. Osbil Watson (2nd right), during a ceremony at VSD’s offices on Old Hope Road in St. Andrew on January 31. Others (from left) are Dr. Wintorph Marsden of the VSD, Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry; and Sharonmae Shirley, Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation.

(L-R) Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Donovan Stanberry, along with Chief Technical Director, MICAF, Andrene Collings; Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Valerie Veira; and Director General, MICAF, Vivian Brown, in discussion at the Final Validation Round Table for Updated MSME and Entrepreneurship Policy, held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, on Thursday, January 25, 2018. Among some of the areas discussed were the Business Enabling Environment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Social Value Creation and Cross Cutting Issues, Increasing Financing to the Sector, Enhancing Business Development Support.

Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett (centre), in conversation with Juliet Holness, Member of Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew, at today’s (January 23, 2018) launch of the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival in Kingston to be held March 23-25, 2018 at Newcastle in St. Andrew. At right is Gusland McCook, acting director general of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority.