Laba welcomes Jamaican Ambassador

LABA’s chairman, Uday Dholakia welcomed Her Excellency Mrs. Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, the Jamaican Ambassador to the UK to Leicester. The talks with the Ambassador ranged from forming trading links between Jamaica and LABA around food and drink as well as promoting inward investment, academic links and links with creative industries. The Ambassador was also keen to utilise LABA’s links with the Indian sub-continent to promote opportunities for investment in infrastructure of ports, roads and industrial parks and film locations for Bollywood. The Ambassador invited LABA to take a delegation to Jamaica supported by JAMPRO (the Trade and Investment arm of Jamaican government). Uday dholakia presented the Ambassador with Kashmiri Shawl as a welcome gift from LABA and received a tin of the world famous Blue Mountain coffee from the Ambassador.