Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Aubyn Hill, is inviting investments by Indian companies, particularly those involved in pharmaceuticals, in the Caymanas Special Economic Zone in St Catherine
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Aubyn Hill, is inviting investments by Indian companies, particularly those involved in pharmaceuticals, in the Caymanas Special Economic Zone in St Catherine.
Speaking with JIS News, Hill said the approximately 1,000-acre campus, which will be developed under the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) regime, is an opportunity to further strengthen the commercial collaboration between Jamaica and India.
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“I am inviting Indian pharmaceutical companies [and] Indian investors to come to Jamaica and invest in our logistics centre at Caymanas and to make sure that collaboration between Jamaica and India will strengthen commercially,” he said.
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He noted that due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, “long supply chains from… Russia to Egypt are now problematic”.
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He pointed out that “Jamaica is ideally situated next to the largest economy in the world (United States of America) and Canada is right there and then we have Latin America and the Caribbean”.
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