JAMPRO’s Board of Directors and Executives will host an intense one day meeting to discuss the Agency’s 3 year plan to support Jamaica’s economic growth programme, and other initiatives to boost investments into Jamaica’s economy and exports.
Kingston, Jamaica– Chairman of JAMPRO, Don Wehby, announced Friday, July 15 that the Agency’s Board of Directors and Executives will be meeting to update the organization’s focus, and create a new three year strategic plan to support Jamaica’s economic growth programme.
The retreat will be held on July 20, 2016 in Kingston, Jamaica.
He explained that the retreat would examine global and local trends in investment as well as export and trade promotion agency best practice to create strategies that will attract more investments into sectors such as Tourism, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), agriculture and Logistics, and increase exports of Jamaican products and services.
JAMPRO’s executives will also examine the use of partnerships with key ministries, departments, agencies and councils such as the Economic Growth Council, to promote Brand Jamaica internationally, and the progress of the National Export Strategy, which focuses on boosting exports in sectors including the Creative Industries, Manufacturing and Agribusiness.
President of JAMPRO, Diane Edwards noted that JAMPRO was keen on bringing more innovation to the Agency’s operations to boost Jamaica’s economy, she said, “As we welcome our new board and the vision of our new Ministry, we thought that it was important to review the way we delivered services to the Jamaican people; particularly as we reposition the organization to drive economic growth in a more deliberate way, and create employment opportunities.
This intense one day retreat which is being led by our new Chairman will not only emphasize JAMPRO’s role in meeting National Development Goals but also analyze some of our current strengths and weaknesses in order to be more effective in delivering the Corporation’s mandate.”
JAMPRO’s new strategic objectives according to Chairman Wehby include among other things “…a greater focus on job creation and on driving value added investments that impact growth, exports and domestic linkages. The executive retreat will be a first step to positioning the organization for this new thrust by the Government of Jamaica.”
JAMPRO is an Agency of the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation. To learn more about the organization’s core functions visit: www.tradeandinvestjamaica.org .
