General Manager at the Banana Board Jamaica, Janet Ferguson-Conie, highlights characteristics of a local banana variety to (from left) Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Professor Tannecia Stephenson; Chairperson of the Musa Technical Working Group, Caribbean Plant Health (CPHD) Directors Forum, Nelson Laville; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green and Phytopathologist at the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier, Dr. Yolande Chilin Charles. The occasion was the opening of the Regional Musaceae Priority Disease - Banana Diagnostic Workshop held on Monday (April 15) at the Life Sciences Department of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green (seated 4th from left), along with (seated from left) Chief Executive Officer at the Agro-Investment Corporation (AIC), Vivion Scully; Director of Projects at Champion Industrial Equipment and Supplies Limited, Courtney Harford and Managing Director at the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney, sign contracts for the AIC’s Irrigation Transmission Force Main and Equipping Project. Standing and observing the signing (from left) are Program Lead at the World Bank Group, Mr. Emre Ozaltin; Managing Director at Beckford & Dixon Limited, Everard Dixon; Director of Finance and Corporate Planning at the National Irrigation Commission, Mrs. Lillian Smith and Director of the Planning, Projects Monitoring Evaluation & Research Division at the National Environmental Planning Agency, Ainsworth Carroll. The occasion was the Contract Signing Ceremony of the AIC’s Irrigation Transmission Force Main and Equipping Project, at Ebony Park, Clarendon held at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices in St. Andrew, on April 11.

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green (seated right); Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (seated second right); Director of Projects, Champion Industrial Equipment and Supplies Limited, Courtney Harford (seated second left) and Chief Executive Officer, Agro-Investment Corporation, Vivion Scully, affix their signatures to documents for the implementation of the Agro-Investment Corporation irrigation Transmission Force Main and Equipping project, at a ceremony at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Hope Gardens offices in St. Andrew, on April 11. Witnessing the signing (standing from left) are Programme Lead, The World Bank Group, Emre Ozaltin; Managing Director, Beckford and Dixon Limited, Everad Dixon; Director, Finance and Corporate Planning, National Irrigation Commission, Lillian Smith; and Director of Planning, Projects, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research, National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Ainsworth Carroll.

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green (second left), engages in a light discussion with Director of Projects, Champion Industrial Equipment and Supplies Limited, Courtney Harford (second right), during the $106-million contract signing ceremony for the Agro-Investment Corporation Irrigation Transmission Force Main and Equipping Project, at Ebony Park, Clarendon, at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices in St. Andrew, on April 11. Others (from left) are Chief Executive Officer, Agro-Investment Corporation, Vivion Scully; Programme Lead, The World Bank Group, Emre Ozaltin and Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney.