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June 2025
 

Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, shares a light moment with (from left) Sandra Garrick, Chief Executive Officer, and Kevin Richards, Chairman, both of the Real Estate Board (REB). The occasion was the REB’s 30th Anniversary Banquet & Awards Ceremony, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on October 6. Minister Shaw commended the REB for its stewardship and urged the REB and its practitioners to continue the drive to support the Anti-Money Laundering legislation and enforcement initiatives of the Government.

Gov’t developing regulatory framework to address inadequate housing

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 10 Oct 2018    nicola.wint   
Government is in the process of developing a comprehensive regulatory framework for the housing sector in order to meet the annual demand for houses, which currently stands at 15,000. This announcement was made by the Hon. Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, who was representing Prime Minister The Most Hon. Andrew Holness at the Real Estate Board’s 30th Anniversary Banquet & Awards Ceremony, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on October 6. Among the initiatives to be undertaken to address this situation, Minister Shaw said, are the...


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Minister Shaw greets Mayor Winston Maragh

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 10 Oct 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), greets Mayor of May Pen , Winston Maragh (2nd left); Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security and Member of Parliament for South East Clarendon , Rudyard Spencer (left); and cane farmers, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, October 9, 2018. The meeting was held with the farmers affected by the reopening of the Monymusk sugar factory in Clarendon.


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Courtesy Call with Cane Farmers from Clarendon

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 10 Oct 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), along with Mayor of May Pen, Winston Maragh (left); Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security and Member of Parliament for South East Clarendon Hon. Rudyard Spencer (2nd left); and Chairman, Sugar Company of Jamaica, Joseph Shoucair (right), in discussion with cane farmers from Clarendon, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, October 9, 2018. The meeting was held with the farmers affected by the reopening of the Monymusk sugar factory in Clarendon.


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Potato farmer Claudette Derby in discussion with Minister Shaw at the National Irish Potato Sensitization Meeting

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 05 Oct 2018    nicola.wint   
Potato farmer Claudette Derby(right) in discussion with (from left) Deputy Chief Executive Officer of H&L ,Olive Downer Walsh (left), and the Hon. Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the National Irish Potato Sensitization Meeting, held in Christiana, Manchester, on October 4, 2018. In the background at right is Odean Bradshaw, Marketing and Business Development Manager, H&L Agro.


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Managing Director Chris Okonmah greets Minister Shaw at the launch of the TOTAL Jamaica Startupper of the Year Challenge

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 05 Oct 2018    nicola.wint   
Managing Director, TOTAL Jamaica, Chris Okonmah (left), greets Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, at the launch of the TOTAL Jamaica Startupper of the Year Challenge, at the Courtyard Marriott hotel in Kingston, on Friday, October 5, 2018. The 2018-2019 TOTAL Challenge will support and reward young local entrepreneurs in any business sector with a project or business less than two years old. Over 60 countries will be participating in the Challenge.


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The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce is described as Jamaica's "Business Ministry." It's mandate is to lead the development of policies that will create growth and jobs, while achieving social inclusion and consumer protection. The Ministry, working its stakeholders is primarily responsible for business policy development, monitoring and evaluation, while giving direction and oversight to a cluster of implementing departments and agencies.

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