As part of an ongoing effort to solidify its bilateral trading partnership with Ghana, Jamaica will be sending a trade mission to the African country next month to seek out additional avenues for investment.

Speaking on Wednesday’s final day of the 11th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference, in Montego Bay, St James, Foreign Affair and Foreign Trade Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith outlined details of the upcoming trade mission.

“Next month, the governments of Jamaica and Ghana will be fielding a trade mission, and we have 38 Jamaican companies that are already signed up that will be part of a delegation headed by the minister of industry and investment, Senator Aubyn Hill,” said Johnson Smith. “He (Hill) will be accompanied by the head of the Special Economic Zone Authority and the head of JAMPRO, and they will be meeting with investors, distribution companies, and the Ghanaian private sector, with the concurrence and support of Ghana's export promotion authorities and Jamaica's High Commissioner, based in Nigeria but accredited to Ghana.”