Joseph M. Matalon (seated, centre), chairman of Youth Upliftment Through Employment, signs with Therese Turner-Jones (seated, left) general manager, Caribbean Country Department, Inter-American Development Bank, and Alejandro Vares, (seated, right), general manager of Caribbean Cement Company, while looking on (from left, standing) are Senator Ruel Reid, minister of education, youth and information; Dianne Ashton Smith, head of corporate relations, Red Stripe; Sir Patrick Allen, governor general; Colin Bullock, director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica; Dennis Chung, CEO of Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica; and Alicia Glasgow Gentles, at the launch of the New Employment Opportunities for Youth in Jamaica Project at King’s House on Friday, June 3.
David Butler (left), CEO of Digicel, and Michael McMorris, chairman of the Victoria Mutual Building Society, were caught in animated discussion at the third University College of the Caribbean Leadership Power Morning Session. Both were guest presenters at the thought-leadership event held at the university’s New Kingston campus recently.
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Corrpak Jamaica Limiteds Executive Chairman, Howard Mitchell (centre) shakes hands with Mayberrys CEO, Gary Peart while Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance; Research and Special Projects, Tania Waldron-Gooden, looks on at a recent event hosted by Mayberry.
There was reason to laugh at the media launch of Jamaica House Rio at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Wednesday, after the announcement by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett (second right) that the budget was less than the one for London 2012. Sharing the moment are (from left) Sports Minister Olivia Grange; director of customer solutions at Digicel Jamaica, Patrick King; Adam Stewart, CEO Sandals; and Diana Jorge Valle, second secretary, Embassy of Brazil.
General manager for the Inter-American Development Bank’s Caribbean Country department, Therese Turner-Jones (centre), in a pleasant exchange with Professor Emeritus David Barker of the University of the West Indies’ Geography and Geology department and environmentalist Eleanor Jones, ahead of delivering her keynote address at the department’s 50th Anniversary Award Ceremony and Conference. Turner-Jones’ presentation was focused on the theme ‘Re-Imaging Development in an Era of Climate Change’. The conference was held at Alhambra Inn on June 30.
