The Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA) is please to announce that there is a new licensee approved to join the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis…
(Stock photo) The Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA) is pleased to announce that there are two (2) new businesses approved to operate i .
The Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA) has distanced itself from a private entity’s plan to hire a non-national as a master grower because it has been unable to find anyone here to do the job.The BMCLA has made it clear it had nothing to do with a notice published in the newspaper by the Business and Employment Centre located at Kensington Court, Fontabelle, St Michael.The notice did not identify the entity that the job placement and business support services centre placed the ad for, but claimed no suitable applicants could be found in Barbados to take up the position. “Having received no suitable application in reply to our advertisement for a Master Grower – cannabis, it is our intention to apply for a work permit for a non-national to fill the position,” the notice stated, adding that anyone who wanted to challenge that application should do so in writing to the Chief Immigration Officer.
Two Barbadian companies have secured the first two licences to operate in the medicinal cannabis industry.The Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA) announced Friday that the two licensees, Best Buds and Cleland Organics Inc, hold a combined nine (9) licences.The authority’s Acting Chief Executive Officer Senator Shanika Roberts-Odle said: “We are excited and very happy to have the Board approve these licences, with Cabinet’s approval. Barbados is moving towards an ambitious new industry and our strategic plan clearly sets out bold targets to fully realise the potential of this market. This first set of licences represents a new economic sector under the medicinal cannabis industry, which will drive economic diversification across existing local sectors, stimulate job and training opportunities and encourage local, regional and international investment and entrepreneurship.”
Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA), Senator Shanika Roberts-Odle said the approval of its first nine licences to two Barbadian licensees was a great step for the island’s entrance into the sector. Roberts-Odle said she was “excited and very happy” that the board of the BCMLA and the Cabinet of Barbados had approved the licences for Best Buds and Cleland Organics Inc. “Barbados is …