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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a debilitating impact on the global community. Not least of the consequences is the crisis this created for seafarers – the many men and women on the front line, working on-board ships, ensuring the flow of vital goods such as food, medicines, essential supplies and energy. As many governments sought to protect their citizens from this contagious disease, ports and borders were closed....

The Airports Authority of Jamaica is projecting a recovery in passenger traffic for Jamaica’s two international airports even as capital improvement works proceed apace at the Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, St James. President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), Audley Deidrick, says the travel and tourism industries have, by far, suffered the most significant impact from the COVID-19 pandemic....

The creative community has received a breakthrough following on the forging of a three-year technical agreement between Kingston Creative Limited and IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank. The collaboration, which will fast track social and economic transformation through the merger of creativity, culture and technology will support 1,500 entrepreneurs and creative enterprises, notably 300 creative entrepreneurs based in downtown Kingston. Additionally, 60 creative businesses...

Following Derrimon Trading Limited’s (DTL) initial acquisition in August 2014, which culminated in a majority interest control in February 2017, Caribbean Flavours and Fragrances (CFF) has grown significantly with the company set to gain a larger runway as DTL expands into the North American market after its highly successful additional public offering. Despite several flavourings in food being imported into Jamaica, CFF has supplied the local market by...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has provided the Government with US$70,000 to implement a project called ‘Formalising Operators in the Jamaican Agriculture and Fisheries Sectors’. This project will promote the benefits of formalisation and assist target operators to formalise their operations. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed during a virtual broadcast, which connected representatives from the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce; the Ministry of Agriculture and...

Jamaica’s first resident diplomat to India is making the case for the strategic importance of increased trade and investment flows between the two countries on the eve of his departure to take up the post of envoy in the second most populous nation in the world, the second-largest democracy and the sixth-largest economy. Having got a feel for diplomacy as Jamaica’s ambassador to Mexico for the past two years,...