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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (left) greets Eve Crowley (seated) Deputy Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean and FAO Representative in Chile, at the opening session of the FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean on March 5, 2018 at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, Montego Bay. Looking on at left is Antonio Sa Ricarte, Deputy Representative, Minister Counselor, Brazil/Conference Rapporteur, and Permanent Secretary, MICAF, Donovan Stanberry (right). The conference is shaping up to be one of the largest...

Chief Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole, is calling on the private sector to collaborate more with the Government in an effort to increase citrus production in Jamaica.
Speaking at Citrus Day 2018 on March 2, Cole said that while there is a demand for some 4.5 million boxes of citrus annually; Jamaica was producing fewer than 2 million boxes. This, he said, was due to capacity constraints at the Ministry’s budwood facility at Bodles where only an average of 24,000 budeyes is produced annually to...

Students sample citrus fruits at Bodles Citrus Day held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on March 2. The event was organised by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ Post Entry Quarantine and the Jamaica Citrus Protection Agency and was geared at increasing awareness amongst the public and nursery operators of the various varieties of citrus available in Jamaica, their flavours and uses, and how they can be incorporated into various foods.

From left, Courtney Cole, Chief Technical Director for Special Projects, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses citrus tree with Alfred Barrett, Jamaica Citrus Protection Officer Plant Quarantine at Bodles Citrus Day held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on March 2. Some 46 varieties of citrus are maintained in a clean state by the Post Entry Quarantine Unit at Bodles and are tested regularly for the more common and problematic diseases that affect citrus.

Senior Energy Engineer, Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, Mark Williams (left), in discussion with (from left) Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vivian Brown; Executive Director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Stephen Wedderburn; and Chief Executive Officer, National Compliance and Regulatory Authority (NCRA), Lorice Edwards Brown, at the launch of the Household and Similar Electrical Appliances Standard by the BSJ. The Standard covers general safety requirements of electrical appliances for household and similar purposes and...