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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), greets Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe use.

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence (right), in dialogue with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda, at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), converses with Chairman, Standards Council, Senator Matthew Samuda,at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specifications for Structural Steel Products, at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The structural steel standards are instrumental in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end users of steel and its variants in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure quality towards safe...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Audley Shaw says the country needs to use agriculture to grow the economy. In doing so, Jamaica could create wealth from the ground up, utilising creative financing with the assistance of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE).
Minister Shaw made these comments while delivering the keynote address at the “Market meets Market on the Sea” event, held February 7, 2019 at the waterfront in downtown Kingston.
“We cannot grow the economy,” Minister Shaw said, “without growing agriculture.”
In this regard, the...

From left, Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, view turnip on sale by a vendor at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.

Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Antoinette McKain, Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation, Steven Gooden, CEO, NCB Capital Markets and Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.

Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses castor bean with (from left) Marlene Street-Forrest, Managing Director at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Ian McNaughton, chairman, JSE, and Michael Pryce, Acting Chief Executive Officer at the Agro-Invest Corporation (AIC), during a tour of the AIC’s booth at the JSE’s Market Meets the Market by the Sea at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on February 7, 2019, one of the events marking the 50th Anniversary of the JSE.