“From farmer to export — overseeing integrity at every step.”
The Industry Regulations Division is a vital arm of the Sugar Industry Authority, entrusted with promoting fairness, transparency, and long-term sustainability across Jamaica’s sugar sector. Its mandate is broad and critical — from registering cane farmers, monitoring cane quality through core sampling, administering the cane payment system, and allocating domestic quotas, to overseeing supply flows. The Division also compiles and analyzes essential industry statistics that cover production, sales, exports, and imports. We also manage trade permits and represent Jamaica in the international sugar trade.
Equally pivotal is the Division’s regulatory and enforcement role. By ensuring that all stakeholders (farmers, processors, and traders) adhere to established standards and policies, it preserves the industry’s integrity and bolsters trust among domestic and foreign partners.
To achieve its mission effectively, the Regulations Division works in close coordination with SIA’s research, technical, and policy units. This integrated approach ensures that decisions and enforcement are informed by scientific evidence, technical support, and strategic direction which reinforces Jamaica’s ability to operate a sugar sector that is efficient, globally competitive, and aligned with national development goals.
Areas of Focus
The Industry Regulations Division operates across three key areas of the cane payment and quality assurance system. Explore each in detail:
Basics of the Core Sampling System
Understanding how cane quality is measured and verified at the point of delivery.
Learn MoreCane Payment System
How farmers are paid based on cane quality, sugar content, and delivered tonnage.
Learn MoreCheck on Core Samplers
Quality assurance procedures that ensure core sampling equipment and processes remain accurate.
Learn MoreOur Team
The division is headed by the Technical Officer for Regulations, who is supported by the Technical Officer for Planning, and two Quality Assurance Officers. The team works together in collating data from the factories, auditing factories and commercially sold sugar, interacting with trading partners and processing licenses within the industry.
Furthermore, the department is responsible for collecting weekly samples from the factories for testing at the Central Laboratory, inspecting factories, and arranging collaborative tests between the factories’ core laboratories and the Central Laboratory.
Christine Stewart
Heads the Industry Regulations Division.
Mark Waller
Supports the division with industry planning and data analysis.
Jermaine Blake
Ensures standards compliance across farmers, processors, and traders.
Jared Carter
Ensures standards compliance across farmers, processors, and traders.
Farmer Registration
The Industry Regulations Division manages cane farmer registration. You can download the registration form from the Documents & Forms page, or contact the division for assistance.