New High Commissioner of Uganda to Jamaica, Amb. Mull Katende with Ms Shorna-Kay Richards Director of the Bilateral Relations Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
New High Commissioner of Uganda to Jamaica, Amb. Mull Katende met with Ms Shorna-Kay Richards Director of the Bilateral Relations Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Kingston this morning.
The two discussed negotiations on a draft framework of Cooperation Agreement in the areas of Agriculture, Culture, Education and Training, Trade and Industry, Tourism, Sports scientific and technical knowledge exchange, information, publications, news materials and tv programs etc. If concluded expeditiously, Jamaica has gone on to propose that it be signed on the sidelines of the UNGA in September. They are a motivated partner.
Amb. Katende presented Ms Richards with Uganda Tourism promotion materials while expressing interest in training opportunities, exchange programs and investment in a hospitality training institute in Uganda. Jamaica has a robust and mature Tourism and hospitality industry.
He informed her that Uganda has a sizable community living and working in different sectors of Jamaican life.
To underscore the importance of the African Diaspora, Amb. Katende presented Ms Richards with a gift of chocolates made in Jamaica by a Ugandan chocolatier living in Jamaica. Mrs Hellen Akiror French a Ugandan, who together with her Jamaican spouse Averell French, is the proprietor of Mt. Pleasant Farms, in the Blue Mountain area of Jamaica. They grow their own cocoa, and interact closely with a network of organic farmers.
Amb. Katende started to Ms Richards that even Jamaicans technical Cooperation agreements in place, Ugandans and Jamicans are doing business. The two governments, therefore, need to put in place favourable conditions for these businesses to thrive.
