Did Bruce take a trip to China ,India, Brazil or S. Africa ?

[Sir X]

[Sir X]

Next stop Brazil , India & S. Africa , mi nuh inna Russia.

[Sir X]

Brazil Still A Viable Source To Boost Jamaican Economy - Stone Roofe

Published: Friday | August 16, 20131 Comment




DESPITE A slowdown in Brazil's GDP growth, Jamaica's ambassador to Brazil, Alison Stone Roofe, says the power of Brand Jamaica offers great opportunities for the island to tap into the [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]South[COLOR=blue !important]American [COLOR=blue !important]nation[/COLOR][/COLOR].[/COLOR]
"I don't worry too much about Brazil's slowed growth, given what I see on the ground here in the country as the head of mission and Jamaica's representative here," said Stone Roofe, who took up her current post last year.
"It is a country which is the size of the United States, 200 million strong with a growing middle class, a groundswell of new areas of investment with businessmen who are now more prone to be looking at new markets outside of Latin America and who are developing tastes which include travel and tourism and outward investment in economies which were previously ignored," Stone Roofe told The Gleaner.
She said Jamaica and other [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]CARICOM[/COLOR] states should "place themselves in the psyche of the [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]Brazilians[/COLOR][/COLOR] and become strategic partners in business, exporting, joint ventures and cross-cultural cooperation".[/COLOR]
Growth in Brazil has slowed considerably since 2010, when it reached 7.5 per cent, according to the [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]International [COLOR=blue !important]Monetary [COLOR=blue !important]Fund[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] (IMF). It slowed to 2.7 per cent in 2011 and to 0.9 per cent in 2012.[/COLOR]
The [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]IMF[/COLOR] now expects the Brazilian economy to grow by 2.5 per cent this year, down 0.5 points from its April forecast of 3 per cent. For 2014, Brazil's economy will grow by 3.2 per cent, down from 4 per cent.
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[Rockman]

The last picture is sybolism at its best, closer to the chinese hosts(really delegation is the Jamaican flag.That is where the warm and cozy reception begins and ends.These Chinese are shewdly informed business people,and we are outmatched and outwitted by them.
It is my belief that the news coming out of this meeting will have something to do with water.
I do welcome the moves being made by the PM,tweaking can have appreciable effects but she has tp surround herself with the smartest of the lot.

[Sir X]

Old Harbour Gives Thumbs Up To Goat Island Development

Published: Thursday | August 22, 20130 Comments

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang greets Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on her arrival at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, yesterday. - JIS PHOTO




Residents and fishermen in Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine

, have been reacting to news of the proposed transformation of Goat Island into the widely anticipated logistics hub, in anticipation of the expansion of the Panama.]
When The Gleaner visited yesterday, the beach at Old ]Harbour Bay was full of fishermen, residents and business operators, some of whom were eager to share their thoughts on the potential development.[/color]
Clifford Wright, a resident of Old Harbour, said he was in support of Goat Island as the site of the logistics hub as long as the environment is kept intact.
"If the development is not going to be detrimental to the environment as a whole, it's a good plan," Wright told The Gleaner from outside a bar just metres from the shoreline of Old Harbour Bay.
Fisherman Fredrick Henry pointed out the need for balance in relation to developments of this kind benefiting the neighbouring communities.
"Infrastructure like that have good and it have bad. The good [is that] it give work to some people, but small fishermen like me, wi lose the area where wi do ]fishing. Most time, it always ban, so we nuh get to do nuh more fishing in the area and we lose that part deh," he explained.[/color]
martin.baxter@gleanerjm.com


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[Exile]

"If the development is not going to be detrimental to the environment as a whole, it's a good plan,"....

Fisherman Fredrick Henry pointed out the need for balance in relation to developments of this kind benefiting the neighbouring communities.
"Infrastructure like that have good and it have bad. The good [is that] it give work to some people, but small fishermen like me, wi lose the area where wi do ]fishin

[Lazie]

He didn't have time to. Man was busy try to navigate the country through the worst global crisis in decades. Pity, as soon as the economy started growing again he was chased out.

Now, the country is back in recession, the $ is now 102, unemployment is 16%. Sound like tings really tun up.

[Willi]

Why doubt, surely there is no precedence for environmenatl damage from such ventures. loL

[Sir X]

Yep Duduss kept him occupied at home .

[Lazie]

Yep Duduss kept him occupied at home .

Tell yuhself that. Explain why after taking the country out of recession, as soon as PPL Poorer gov't took over the country went right back into recession? Explain why the $ is now 102? Oh mi figet, you nuh deal with facts.

[Sir X]

What is to explain , they are screw ups like your party , this isnt rocket science.

[Lazie]

What is to explain , they are screw ups like your party , this isnt rocket science.

Not man enough to critcise your party so like the others round here? Not surprised. Yes, they both may be screw ups, but statistical data show under which gov't the country's economy is better managed.

[Exile]

Gov't admits Goat Islands under 'serious consideration' for trans-shipment hub

Prepares for battle with environmentalists
BY JULIAN RICHARDSON Assistant Business Co-ordinator richardsonj@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, August 22, 2013

BEIJING, China — Government may face a tough battle against environmentalists and time as it explores the possibility of constructing a trans-shipment hub at Goat Islands, located off the south coast of St Catherine.
Minister of Land, Water, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickersgill revealed that the site was "now under very serious consideration" to facilitate the much talked about project, as he and a team of officials, including Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, met with representatives of China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) during a lunch meeting at the state-owned firm's headquarters in Beijing yesterday. Simpson Miller and her team is on a five-day visit to the Asian country.


Satellite imagery showing the location of the two cays called Goat Islands.

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The development comes four months after CHEC — which last year signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Port Authority to explore the feasibility of establishing a new trans-shipment port at Fort Augusta — rejected that location as it was not big enough to provide the space they needed.
CHEC wants some 3,000 acres of land to build the port. It had showed interest in Goat Islands before, but looked elsewhere when met with environment restrictions. Lobby groups have argued that the Goat Islands are important for biodiversity, with a vision of the area being developed into a reserve for iguanas and other threatened species.
"They (China Harbour) looked at the Goat Islands area and are attracted to it, but truth be told there are some environmental prohibition as we speak," Pickersgill told journalists.
In fact, environmental groups this week — apparently getting wind of Government's intentions — came out forcefully against the move.
According to the Jamaica Environment Trust and the Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation — which manages the Portland Bight Protected Area — a large-scale port development will have devastating impacts on the coastal environment adjacent to and including the Goat Islands.
"These impacts include destruction of mangroves, seagrass beds, coral reefs, opening up access to currently inaccessible areas on land leading to further degradation of the ancient dry limestone forest of the Hellshire Hills," they said in a joint press release, reiterating that any port development and associated infrastructure would have a major adverse impact on the ecology of the Portland Bight Protected Area.
But at yesterday's meeting, CHEC assured Simpson Miller that it is committed to environmental protection and social responsibility as it looks to expand its footprint in Jamaica.
"Jamaica is a major target market for CHEC and we hope Jamaica can provide us with a platform to continue and expand our collaboration to larger levels," said Liu Quitaio, president of CHEC parent company China Communications Construction.
CHEC is behind numerous infrastructure works in Jamaica, including the recently concluded Palisadoes Shoreline Protection Project and the North South link of Highway 2000.
Simpson Miller highlighted that any future collaboration would be a "win-win" situation for both Jamaica and CHEC.
"There are investment opportunities in Jamaica at this time and I hope you will give favourable consideration to other investments in Jamaica," she told Liu.
Simpson Miller has said previously that the final location for the logistics hub project will be a direct investment of CHEC and its parent company.
The preliminary estimates of the mega investment are between US$1.2 billion and US$1.5 billion.
Meanwhile, Pickersgill told journalists that time is of essence.
"There are competing interests and they are not waiting on us," Pickersgill said, reiterating that the Government is aiming for the hub to become operational in 2015 to coincide with the reopening of the Panama Canal.
"I expect that the environmentalists will be defending what now exists and the development ministry and the Government will have to say to the country what it is we will be foregoing and why, because the employment opportunities are very much there," he added.
Meanwhile, Dr Carlton Davis, special envoy and chief advisor, noted that "there is no perfect universe, it is how you can balance and use engineering to correct things".
"At the end of the day, if a project promises to employ 10,000 people, not to mention on an economic value added, you can't just simply lose it," he added.
According to the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, the logistics hub is a multi-dimensional project that will include "clusters of global businesses operating from special economic zones, technology parks, logistics parks and industrial parks".


Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2chZId5R9

[Sir X]

Keep preaching probaby after 18 yrs, the masses will give yuh a bly again.

[Lazie]

Keep preaching probaby after 18 yrs, the masses will give yuh a bly again.

only 18 years? You all can stay there as long as unuh want. Who cyaan hear must feel.