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Dr Carl Larsen (left), Executive Secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), welcomes the Hon Floyd Green, Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, to the 10th GFRAS Annual Meeting in Negril, Jamaica, on October 1, 2019. Others from left are Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, and Nigel Myrie, Chairman, both of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority. The forum, which has delegates from several countries such as Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Korea, Italy, United States and South Africa, is being held under the theme 'Role of Rural Advisory Services in Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management'.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), in dialogue with Vice President, National Consumers’ League (NCL), Michael Diamond (centre); and Professor Fitzroy Henry, School of Allied Health and Wellness, University of Technology, at the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the NCL, held under the theme Consumers Health, Jamaica’s Wealth: ‘Healthy Approach to Nation Building’, at the Multipurpose Facility, Bureau of Standards Jamaica, Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, October 2, 2019.