Portland Gets Export Centre/Business Information Point

Author: ASTON G. BAILEY
Title: Portland Gets Export Centre/Business Information Point
Source PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica Information Service (JIS)
Date Monday, March 09, 2009
URL http://jis.gov.jm/agriculture/html/20090309T200000-0500_18788_JIS_PORTLAND_GETS_EXPORT_CENTRE_BUSINESS_INFORMATION_POINT.asp

Abstract:
The article reports on the opening of a new business or export information centre in Jamaica in the rural parish of Portland. Location and the funding behind the centre is revealed. Also discussed are the intentions behind the establishment of the centre.

Excerpt from Source:

Business related information and support will be more accessible to Portlanders, with the opening of the Jamaica Exporters Association/Rural Agricultural Development Authority's (JEA/RADA) Export Centre and Business Information Point, in Port Antonio, on Thursday(March 5).

A report on B'dos Library's Black History Month's panel discussion on Black entrepreneurship

Author: ANMARIE BAILEY-BLAKE
Title: Blacks must 'grab bigger piece of business pie'
Source: Barbadian Nation News
Date: February 07, 2009
URL: >http://www.nationnews.com/story/329839168447613.php.

Excerpt:
BLACKS CAN and need to do more to control a bigger piece of the local business market.

This was the consensus of a Black History Month panel discussion, Blacks In Business - The Way Forward, held at the main branch of the Barbados Library Service last Thursday.


Abstract:
The article provides a report on the Black History Month panel discussion, Blacks In Business - The Way Forward, held at the main branch of the Barbados Library Service.

JTI Reports Marked Success with Export Centre/Business Information Point Project

Title: JTI Reports Marked Success with Export Centre/Business Information Point Project
Source: KINGSTON (JIS)- Jamaica Information Service
Date Friday, February 06, 2009


URL: http://jis.gov.jm/commerce_science/html/20090206T090000-0500_18330_JIS_JTI_REPORTS_MARKED_SUCCESS_WITH_EXPORT_CENTRE_BUSINESS_INFORMATION_POINT_PROJECT.asp

Abstract:

Details are given about the Jamaica Trade and Invest (JTI) Export Centre/Business Information Point (EC/BIP)project. This is a project set up to serve Small and Medium Enterprises in Jamaica. Business Facilitation Manager at the JTI, Marlene Porter, provides an evaluation of the project, its implementation, successes and the activities surrounding its implementation. Also revealed in Porter's comments, is the purpose of the project and the aspirations of the impact it will have on the target group (SMEs).

Export and Business Information Centre comes to Westmoreland

Title: Westmoreland Gets Export/Business Information Centre
Source: MONTEGO BAY (JIS):
Date: Monday, February 09, 2009

URL: http://jis.gov.jm/commerce_science/html/20090209T090000-0500_18377_JIS_WESTMORELAND_GETS_EXPORT_BUSINESS_INFORMATION_CENTRE.asp

Abstract:

Report on the launch or opening of an export and business information centre for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Jamaica. The opening took place at the Savanna-La-Mar Civic Centre on Great George Street. It was conducted by Jamaica Trade and Invest (JTI), in partnership with the Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce. The hopes, mission, objectives and expectations about how the centre will serve the SME sector in Westmoreland are expressed by President of the JTI, Robert Gregory.