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30 December 2016

Honourable Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, displays a copy of the Compulsory Standards (Declaration of Standard Specification) (Brown Cane Sugar [Revised]) Order, 2016, which was gazetted on Friday, December 30. Minister Samuda was speaking at a media briefing to discuss the new standards governing the packaging and labelling of brown sugar at the ministry’s offices in New Kingston. At right is Permanent Secretary, Donovan Stanberry.

New Brown Sugar Standard Gazetted

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 30 Dec 2016   

The Government has completed the standards governing the packaging and labelling of brown sugar.
The Compulsory Standards (Declaration of Standard Specification) (Brown Sugar [Revised]) Order, 2016 was signed by Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, on Thursday, December 29 and was gazetted on Friday, December 30, 2016.
The new standard revokes the Compulsory Standards (Declaration of Standard Specification) (Brown Cane Sugar) Order, 1985.
Under the new labelling system, brown sugar sold on the local market will be packaged to...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda.

Ministerial Order on Frosty Pod Rot of Cocoa Disease Withdrawn

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 30 Dec 2016   

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Karl Samuda has withdrawn the Ministerial Order for the Frosty Pod Rot of Cocoa Disease (Moniliophthora roreri) that was issued in late September under Section 3 of the Plants Quarantine Act 1993.
The lifting of the Order follows the recommendation by the Plant Quarantine/Produce Inspection Branch of the Ministry to withdraw the Order for the entire island. The recommendation is consistent with the findings from the delimiting survey report, which was conducted by the Plant Health Coordinating Committee.
Whilst the...

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