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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, speaking at the Mona School of Business and Management media launch for the 4th staging of its Business and Management Conference at the MSBM North, Executive Lecture Theatre, University of the West Indies, on Thursday, June 27. Seated (l-r) are Executive Director, Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM), Dr. David McBean; Senior Research Fellow, MSBM, Dr. Indianna Minto-Coy, and Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Strategy, MSBM, Ambassador Ralph Thomas.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (left), greets Vice- President, Public Affairs, New Fortress Energy, Verona Carter (2nd right), at the launch of Mona School of Business and Management 4th Business and Management Conference to be held, July 10-12, 2019. The launch was held at the MSBM North, Executive Lecture Theatre, University of the West Indies on Thursday, June 27. From left are Managing Director, Development Bank of Jamaica, Milverton Reynolds, and Private Financial Operations Specialist, IDB Labs, Inter-American Development Bank of Jamaica,...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, had high praises for the Rural Agricultural Development Authority’s school-feeding project in St. Thomas, where fruit plates and fruit juices are packaged and sold to 22 schools in the parish on a daily basis.
Under this project, which started in 2018, fruits such as pineapple, melon, sorrel, June plum and otaheite apples are purchased from local farmers and processed and packaged at the agro-processing facility located at the RADA St. Thomas office.
“We want...

From left, Kerone Fairclough, Fisheries Extension Officer, discusses ornamental fish rearing with the Hon, J. C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, and Bevin Martin Dickenson, Parish Agricultural Manager, both of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), at the 21st staging of the RADA St. Thomas Open Day held at the Rudolph Elder Park in Morant Bay on June 28.

Hon J. C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, presents plaque to Lynett Johnson for exemplary service to rural development in St. Thomas at the 21st staging of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority St Thomas Open Day, held at the Rudolph Elder Park in Morant Bay on June 28. Looking on is Opposition Spokesperson on Agriculture and Rural Development and Member of Parliament for St. Thomas Eastern, Dr. Fenton Ferguson.

Hon J. C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, samples melon from the Plantain Garden River Agro-Park in St. Thomas during a tour of exhibits at the 21st staging of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) St Thomas Open Day, held on June 28 at the Rudolph Elder Park in Morant Bay. Others from left are Bevin Martin Dickenson, Parish Agricultural Manager, and Leonie Sawyers, farmer and board member, RADA St. Thomas.

Hon J.C. Hutchinson (3rd left), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, views seeds on display at the 21st staging of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) St Thomas Open Day, held on June 28 at the Rudolph Elder Park in Morant Bay. Others from left are Bevin Martin Dickenson, Parish Agricultural Manager, Melvina Phidd, board member, RADA St. Thomas, and Richard Grant, Marketing Development Officer, H&L Agro. Organised by the Ministry, RADA and the Technical Centre for Cooperation on Agriculture, a seed fair was...