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Standards Bureau in Jamaica study A CABINET minister and Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality (BBSQ) executives undertook a two-day study tour with their counterpart agency in Jamaica to learn how it opetrates. Hope Strachan, minister of financial services and local government, who has responsibility for the BBSQ, said the visit to Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), which has been in existence since 1969, was an invaluable hands-on experience. The Bahamian delegation listened to presentations by BSJ, the National Certification Body of Jamaica, the Jamaica National Agency of Accreditation (JANAAC) and the National Compliance and Regulatory Authority (NCRA). All shared the “principles, processes, procedures and practices” that have proven useful in advancing Jamaica’s quality infrastructure. They also saw how NCRA operates its metrology and food inspection facilities. The Bahamian group visited a petroleum station to
see how gas tanks are verified and calibrated. Jamaica’s customs department also allowed the officials to observe a standards compliance function visit to the island’s container port. The tour ended with a look into how standards operate at the J. Wray & Nephew Rum factory. “The Bureau of Standards Jamaica has emerged as a critical organisation in nation-building at home, and an elder statesman in the Caribbean community, providing support to other countries in their quest to establish a similar organisation and system,” said Yvonne Hall, BSJ’s executive director. “Having laid a solid foundation, undergirded by the highest principles of standards and quality, BSJ has always warmly embraced the opportunity for knowledge transfer activities to our sister islands across the Caribbean, as well as to other countries,” Ms Hall added: “We are privileged to provide this level of support to your or-
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A DELEGATION from The Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality (BBSQ) conducted a study tour of The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ). Pictured (front row l-r): Joan Albury, President, The Counsellors Limited; Edison Sumner, BBSQ council member; Dr. Renae Ferguson-Bufford, BBSQ Executive Director; Hon C V Hope Strachan, Minister of Financial Services & Local Government with responsibility for BBSQ; Sherrlyee Smith, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Financial Services; and Pauline V Curry, BBSQ Chairwoman. (back row l-r) Council members: Craig Delancy, Building Control Officer, Ministry of Public Works and Urban Development; Peter Bates, representative of the interests of manufacturers and Owner of The SignMan; Dr Ernest J Bowe, representative of interests of consumers and Chairman of the Prices Control Commission; Rodney Stuart, representative of the interests of wholesalers and Quality Systems Manager, Caribbean Bottling Company; Dr Pearl McMillan, representative of interests of health professionals and Director of Public Health, Ministry of Public Health; and Patricia Minnis, representative of the interest of agriculturalists and Microbiologist, Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources. ganisation and, by extension, your country, as you seek to embrace and inculcate in your operations, as well as in the operations of your stakeholders in government and the private sector in the Bahamas, the over-
arching principles of standards and quality.” Mrs Strachan said: “The Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality is one of the key building blocks in creating a quality infrastructure for Bahamian consum-
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ers. “Our objective is to ensure that goods imported and intended for export meet set and tested criteria in their processing and production. Moreover, BBSQ will ensure that the provision of services in the coun-
try are in conformity with best practices from a global perspective. ‘Of course, if we’re going to increase trade we have to be able to meet the standards of the developed countries. The only way to do that is first to create and declare standards for your products and services, and then to prescribe processes and procedures to ensure that those standards are maintained.” Mrs Strachan said the BBSQ’s evolution, and the development of standards tessting and infrastructure in the Bahamas, would create jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities tied to science and other sectors. “We’re going to need access to a lot of technical talent. So it’s incumbent upon our high school and university students to consider how they can be a part of the Bahamas Bureau of Standards in this quality infrastructure that we are creating,” Mrs Strachan said. “They can plan to have careers in research, laboratory technology or metrology - professional careers that are critical to creating a successful institution, and on a much larger scale, a quality infrastructure. I believe that this is the way forward for the country.”
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