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Posted on 14/03/2025
Jamaica Ripe for Business
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator the Hon. Aubyn Hill, says Jamaica is one of the most attractive investment destinations in the Caribbean and is urging more diaspora members to do business in the country. Senator Hill was addressing a panel discussion on Monday (June 17) on the topic ‘Jamaica Open for Bu...
Posted on 14/03/2025
Aubyn Hill engages private sector to build back St Elizabeth
AUBYN Hill, the minister of industry, investment, and commerce, has made a sweeping call to private sector stakeholders to aid in rebuilding communities affected by Hurricane Beryl with an eye for more resilient structures. The minister, a St Elizabeth native, invited members of Lydford Mining Company and Jamaica Institution ...
Posted on 27/10/2017
MOU With Chinese Government Will Not Allow Chinese Vessels or Fishers to Fish in Local Waters
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries has taken note of discussions in the press relating to a Memorandum of Understanding between MICAF and the Ministry of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic...
Posted on 27/10/2017
Deputy Director Wend Wendland speaking at the National Consultative Workshop
Deputy Director, Traditional Knowledge Division, Global, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Wend Wendland, speaking at the National Consultative Workshop on Issues and Options in Developing a National Policy Legislation on Intellectual Property and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural...
Posted on 20/10/2017
Better Waste Management System to be put in place on Pedro Cays
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda has made a committment to take the necessary steps to improve conditions for fishermen on the Pedro Cays. Minister Samuda, who was speaking on Wednesday, October 18, while on a...
Posted on 20/10/2017
Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organizations Bill Passed
Parliament has passed the Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organizations Bill, which seeks to modernise the agricultural sector to meet the nation’s growing demands of food security and productivity. The Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organisations Act also facilitates the...
Posted on 20/10/2017
Co-operatives critical to economic growth and development- Ministry rep
Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr Vivian Brown, says that co-operatives are increasingly becoming drivers of economic growth and development. He noted that through their critical role in business development they have been having...
Posted on 20/10/2017
Hon. Karl Samuda speaking at the Signing of a Tripartite Agreement
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Karl Samuda, speaking at the issuing of licences involving the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), Everything Oily Labs Limited and Epican Medicinals Limited, held at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday,...
Posted on 20/10/2017
Minister Samuda at the Issuing of Cannabis Licences
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Karl Samuda (left), in discussion with Claudine Liu (centre) of Everything Oily Labs Limited and Karibe McKenzie, Epican Medicinals Limited, who were issued with licences on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, by...
Posted on 20/10/2017
Cannabis Licensing Authority issues first two licences
The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), an agency of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, has granted the first two licences for participation in Jamaica’s medical marijuana industry. Licences were issued to Everything Oily Labs Limited for the processing...
Posted on 20/10/2017
St. Ann National Irish Potato Stakeholders’ Seminar
Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, addressing farmers at one in a series of the National Irish Potato and Onion Stakeholders’ Seminars held in Claremont, St. Ann, on Wednesday, October 18....
