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In 1983, one of the recommendations of a World
Bank study was that the Jamaica National Investment
Promotions (JNIP – Office of the Prime Minister),
the Jamaica National Export Corporation (JNEC –
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade) and the
Jamaica Industrial Development Corporation (JIDC –
Ministry of Industry and Commerce) be constituted as
a single body. In 1986, during the restructuring of
ministerial responsibilities, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Trade assumed the additional portfolio
of Industry and Commerce, while the responsibility for
the JNIP shifted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Trade and Industry. By this action, the groundwork was
laid for the merger of the three corporations.
This consolidation became effective in April 1988 when
the JNIP, the JIDC and the JNEC were merged to become
the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO).
Initially, JAMPRO was incorporated as a limited liability
company, mandated to perform the following functions:
- Investment promotion and facilitation
- Trade promotion and trade services
- Regulation of export procedures
- Modernisation of industry
- Allocation of factory space
In 1990, while housed within the Ministry of Development,
Planning and Production, the JAMPRO Act was passed in
Parliament, establishing the company as a statutory
body of the Government of Jamaica.
Today, JAMPRO functions under the Ministry of Development
and its mandate and services have become more facilitatory,
while focusing primarily on investment and export promotion
within the Leisure, Manufacturing, Agribusiness and
Information Technology sectors.
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