Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
Jamaica's Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has urged farmers to increase production to fill the void created by the decline of the bauxite industry.The minister, who was addressing the annual conference of the St Elizabeth branch...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 25/05/2009
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Christopher Tufton has called on the international community to put aside its "business as usual mindset" in favour of urgent, concrete action for the benefit of small island states struggling to meet their...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
In Jamaica, Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton announced the sale of the St Thomas and Trelawny sugar companies, but did not elaborate on the fate of the Petrojam Ethanol unit that was added to the package last year when Brazil’s Infinity was negotiating to make the acquisition. The Jamaica Gleaner is reporting that the buyers [...]
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
There is no clear vision being articulated by Govern-ment at this point as to what role ethanol production would play in the new sugar-cane industry.Ethanol was being sold as the new direction of the industry during the Government's courtship of...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
Government has reached a deal for the sale of the Trelawny and St Thomas sugar companies, as a first step in divesting the country's assets in the sector. Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton made the announcement in Parliament...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
"In both instances the sugar factories and the attendant facilities are being sold and the sugar cane lands are being leased for a period of 50 years, renewable for another 25 years," said Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Christopher Tufton.KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 25, 2009 - Two of the factories owned by the failed Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) have been sold for a combined...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaica sold two debt-ridden sugar estates for $2 million and continues to seek buyers for three, the agriculture minister said Wednesday.Christopher Tufton said two Jamaican companies paid $500,000 for the St. Thomas Sugar Co. The new owners will invest nearly $3 million in the property, he said.Another local company, Everglades Farms, paid $1.5 million for the Trelawny...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
... in a partisan way."Responding to recent media reports which quoted Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton as saying farming groups had been 'hijacked by political agenda", Grant sought to reassure the minister that he had never been driven by political motivations."I don't know if he was misquoted. I'd just like to assure him that the JAS has not, will not, and cannot be hijacked...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The Government will have to come up with more than $2.7 billion by next week to pay sugar workers whose positions were made redundant last year. Next Tuesday is the deadline for the payments and Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday...
Diarios Latinos (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Armed with a study showing that more than half of the 1,100 abattoirs set up across the island are operating illegally, Agriculture Minister Christopher Tufton wants to establish centralised slaughter houses to safeguard against praedial larceny and unhealthy practices.
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
... and Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Karl Samuda, as well as Agriculture Minister Christopher Tufton.The Government says it will now be, "Ensuring that the move to have CARICOM formally address the streamlining of intra-regional sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) procedures is given highest priority."A regional inspection team was expected in Jamaica to visit processing...
