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In keeping with its mandate to drive growth and improve the quality of lives of the people, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries partnered with the Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) in the development of its Local Sustainable Development Plan:2030 & Beyond through grant funding of $20m.
Speaking at the launch of the plan on March 16, Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry, Courtney Cole, who represented the Hon Karl Sumuda, commended the TMC for its initiative in developing the plan.
“We anticipate the implementation of this plan...

Chief Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole(left), converses with Minister of Local Government & Community Development Hon Desmond McKenzie at the official presentation of the Trelawny Local Sustainable Development Plan:2030 & Beyond on March 16, held at the Trelawny Municipal Corporation Meeting Room in Falmouth. The Ministry, through its Sugar Transformation Programme, provided European-Union grant funding of $20m towards the development of the plan.

Stefano Cilli, Attaché/Programme Manager, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, speaking at the official presentation of the Trelawny Local Sustainable Development Plan:2030 & Beyond on March 16, held at the Trelawny Municipal Corporation Meeting Room in Falmouth. Grant funding of $20m was provided by the EU through the Ministry’s Sugar Transformation Programme towards the development of the plan.

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (fourth left), cuts ribbon to officially open the Seprod Group’s new $3-billion state-of-the-art grains mill, at the facility located on Felix Fox Boulevard, Kingston, on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Others (from left) are Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie; Opposition Spokesman for Development and Physical Planning, Anthony Hylton; mother of Seprod’s Chairman, Paul B. Scott (pictured fifth left), Susan Scott; Member of Parliament for St. Andrew North Western, Dr. Nigel Clarke; Minister of Industry,...

Chairman, Seprod, Paul B. Scott (centre), converses with Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (right), at the Jamaica Grain and Cereals Limited’s official factory opening and launch of Gold Seal Flour, at the company’s facility on Felix Fox Boulevard, Kingston, on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Seated at left is Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness.

Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Affairs Commission, Dolsie Allen (centre), in discussion with (from left) Director, Commerce Division, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Michelle Parkins; and Executive Director, Jamaica Intellectual Property Office, Lilyclaire Bellamy, at the Word Consumer Rights Day 2018 Seminar and Exhibition, under the theme, ‘Making Digital Marketplaces Fairer: Access, Security and Protection‘, at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, on Thursday March 15, 2018.