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23 January 2018

Media briefing to update the country on the scrap metal industry, motor vehicle pre-shipment regime and the refined sugar regime

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 23 Jan 2018   

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (right), listening intently to Board Chairman, Jamaica Cane Products Sales (JCPS), Karl James (left), during a media briefing to update the country on the scrap metal industry, motor vehicle pre-shipment regime and the refined sugar regime, at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ (MICAF) New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Others (l-r) are Chief Technical Director, Andrene Collings and Permanent Secretary, Donovan Stanberry, MICAF.

Board Chairman Karl James in discussion with CFO Paul Henriques and Chairman Phillip Henriques

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 23 Jan 2018   

Board Chairman, Jamaica Cane Products Sales (JCPS), Karl James (left), along with Chief Financial Officer, Worthy Park Estate, Paul Henriques (centre) and Chairman, Sugar Industry Authority, Phillip Henriques, in discussion at a media briefing to update the country on the scrap metal industry, motor vehicle pre-shipment regime and the refined sugar regime, at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ (MICAF) New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.

Hon. J. C. Hutchinson (2nd right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and fisheries, tastes ginger grown using tissue culture technology along with Jherane Patmore, Gender Equity and Youth Programme Officer; and Alvin Murray (left), Project Coordinator ; both of the Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL)– World University Services of Canada; to the delight of ginger farmer Taja Simpson (2nd left) from Maroon Town in St. James. The occasion was a Women and Youth in Agriculture Consultation Forum organised by PROPEL in Kingston on January 19.

Hutchinson recommends youth involvement in agriculture to curb crime

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 23 Jan 2018   

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon J.C. Hutchinson, is recommending that one way of curbing crime in the Jamaica is by getting more young people involved in agriculture. He was speaking at a Women and Youth in Agriculture Consultation Forum organised by the Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages – World University Services of Canada in Kingston on January 19.
In supporting his suggestion, he cited an example of how a community in St. Elizabeth, which was affected by crime, was...

Women and Youth in Agriculture Consultation Forum

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 23 Jan 2018   

Alvin Murray (left), Project Coordinator ; Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages – World University Services of Canada (WUSC); explains the advantages of using tissue culture in the production of seedlings to the Hon. J. C. Hutchinson (2nd right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; and Walter Bernyck (right), Counsellor and Head of Development Cooperation, Global Affairs Canada; during a Women and Youth in Agriculture Consultation Forum in Kingston on January 19. Listening in is Munish...

Minister Hutchinson in discussion with sweet pepper farmer Michelle Irving

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 23 Jan 2018   

Hon. J. C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with sweet pepper farmer from Mocho, Clarendon, Michelle Irving at a Women and Youth in Agriculture Consultation Forum held in Kingston on January 19.

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