Caribbean Currents: Jamaica offers services to potential investors |

Our remaining stop on the Odunde Caribbean Roundtable is Make investments Jamaica spearheaded by JAMPRO, the Jamaica Promotions Company. JAMPRO is an agency of the federal government of Jamaica that is governed by a board of administrators appointed by the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce. It was recognized in 1988 to promote enterprise alternatives in export and investment decision to the local and international organization communities. Just one of the organization’s goals is to persuade individuals of Jamaican descent in the diaspora who have designed firms overseas or would like to create a company in Jamaica — to contemplate the positive aspects of investing in the island’s foreseeable future.

Teams strategically positioned in Kingston, Jamaica, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are conduits to aid the implementation of expenditure and export assignments. They not only function as an extension of JAMPRO by leveraging possibilities for trade in goods and expert services in the respective markets in which they are located but they also determine and stimulate foreign corporations from these markets to commit in Jamaica.

These well qualified people are critical policy advocates and advisers to the governing administration on the improvement of Jamaica’s organization environment and the advancement of new industries. The principal sectors that are specific are producing, tourism, mining, data and communications technological know-how, logistics, electricity, agribusiness and the innovative industries (movie, tunes, style, and so forth.).

Shane Angus, the North American regional manager of JAMPRO, took the flooring at the Odunde roundtable to give the attendees a glimpse into Investing in Jamaica. He mentioned that as an agency of the govt, JAMPRO’s concentrate is to enable investors to “Find It, Begin It and Expand It.” What does that mean? He stated, basic and uncomplicated, “we roll in the pink tape and roll out the crimson carpet.” If you pay back your plane fare and hotel, JAMPRO will do the rest. “After you land, we do every thing else,” explained Angus. “We even feed you.”

With the attentive ear of the audience, Angus spelled out that the agency guides traders through the vital procedures and delivers assistance in partnership with crucial governing administration organizations and ministries, even immediately after their investments are operational.

The group site plainly spells out the array of providers that Angus indicated investors can expect from JAMPRO, from commence to complete. They incorporate but are not constrained to: export and industry development solutions such as exporter registration analysis of business effectiveness/enterprise ranking and upgrading business approach improvement and revision benchmarking and score versus community & global competitors assessment of specifications for certification of merchandise providers and company administration procedure market access and marketplace penetration info which include company linkages and match-earning (such as through on the internet facilities) and facilitating entry to specialized support/donor aid systems.

And that is not all. They also supply industry investigate field facts selection and benchmarking customized investor itineraries investor matching joint enterprise partnerships facilitation of cost-free zone applications linkages with suppliers, contractors and numerous assistance providers facilitation of permits and approvals for get the job done, making, etcetera. identification of sources for technical and fiscal help intervention on behalf of customers and challenge-solving and familiarization tours.

With all of this assist, how can investors fail?

Many accomplishment stories are featured on the JAMPRO web-site, and we felt that the Heather Laine tale was the most relatable: “Heather Laine has been creating and developing gorgeous clothing for the previous 22 decades. Its CEO, Zoe Heather Summers, says that Heather Laine’s layouts are impressed by the Jamaican female: The Heather Laine style is very flowing and cozy — ‘comfortable chic’ as Zoe describes it.”

In addition to promoting in their Kingston boutique, Heather Laine results in a line of vacation resort clothes that is sold in vacation resort shops in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean, and extra a short while ago in Florida, as they search for to grow their overseas markets.

JAMPRO aided them to prepare for trade reveals, produce a marketing plan and make get in touch with with probable abroad customers. “They even arrived into the factory to support us make improvements to our productivity” as perfectly as offering guidance in acquiring financing. “JAMPRO has my back, and has been very beneficial,” Zoe reported.

Because 2004, JAMPRO has been regarded as the Best Trade Advertising Group from a Little Island Establishing Condition by the International Trade Centre, and as a top financial commitment promotion company in the Latin American and Caribbean location.

JAMPRO suggests that with their countrywide eyesight to make Jamaica the spot of choice to live, work, increase family members and do company by 2030, they are prepared and psyched to electric power your enterprise designs. You can log on to www.dobusinessjamaica.com for a lot more data.

Many thanks to the organizers of Odunde for being inclusive to all cultures.