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03 April 2017

Hon J.C. Hutchinson (2nd right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, presents garden supplies and tools to Marvalee Samuels, guidance counsellor at Lacovia Primary School, one of 15 participating schools in the National School Garden and Breakfast Programme in St. Elizabeth, at the launch of the Breakfast Programme on March 31. Others, from left, are Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Rural Agricultural Development Authority; and Nathan Samuels, Parish Manager.

$900,000 contributed to School Garden and Breakfast Programmes

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 03 Apr 2017   

Tools and supplies valued at $900,000 were presented to 15 primary schools in St. Elizabeth by Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Hon J.C. Hutchinson as part of the Nation School Garden and Breakfast Programme at the launch of the programmes in St. Elizabeth on Friday, March 31.
Addressing participants from the participating schools, Minister Hutchinson said that fencing would also be provided for every school garden that was not fenced and schools that had empty chicken coops would receive 25 broiler chickens and five bags of...

AMCHAM Jamaica’s breakfast forum

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 03 Apr 2017   

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (2nd left) in dialogue with (from left) managing director, Launchpad USA/AMCHAM Finland, Dr. Erika Sauer; country managing partner (EY)/director, American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica (AMCHAM Jamaica), Allison Peart; and past president of AMCHAM/managing director, ADM Jamaica Flour Mills Limited, Derrick Nembhard; at the AMCHAM Jamaica’s 1st breakfast forum held at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston on Friday, March 31, 2017.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Hon. Karl Samuda (right) greeting sugar cane cutter during a tour of the Monymusk Sugar Factory in Clarendon, on Friday, March 31, 2017.

Samuda wants Monymusk to target 500,000 tonnes of cane in the next 5 years

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 03 Apr 2017   

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Karl Samuda, wants the Monymusk Sugar Estate to aim towards the production of 500,000 tonnes of cane over the next five years.
The Minister expressed this desire on Friday March 31 at the official opening of the 2016-2017 crop year at Monymusk Sugar Factory in Clarendon where he took Prime Minister Andrew Holness on a tour of the factory currently being temporarily managed by the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings Limited.
Minister Samuda expressed his belief in the resilience of sugar cane and thanked the...

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