Business Leader: News Updates
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Lowell Hawthorne: A study in tenacity and business acumen
Friday, December 09, 2011Last week, Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill boss Lowell Hawthorne was selected as the Jamaica Observer Business Leader for 2010 at a gala event held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingst ...more
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Brand Jamaica reigns supreme at Business Leader Awards
Sunday, December 04, 2011HE may not have won the 2010 Jamaica Observer Business Leader Award, but nominee George Yap was the clear audience choice for Mr Congeniality. Every time his name was read out at the presentation banq ...more 1 comments -
Business leaders share challenges
Wednesday, November 30, 2011GUESTS at the Jamaica Observer Business Leader luncheon yesterday shared stories of challenges faced by Jamaican entrepreneurs abroad, especially when they try to invest back home. Recognition must b ...more 0 comments -
Observer Business Leader Awards helps to promote diaspora investment — Jampro
Tuesday, November 29, 2011JAMAICA'S premier investment agency, Jampro, says it decided to sponsor this year's Observer Business Leader Awards because the focus of the event — entrepreneurship in the Jamaican diaspora &md ...more 0 comments -
Diaspora investors lauded for local economic contribution
Wednesday, November 23, 2011THE Jamaica diaspora, and in particular, the eight entrepreneurs who have been nominated for this year's Jamaica Observer Business Leader Award, have been lauded for their critical role in the continu ...more 0 comments -
Golden Krust: Feeding Jamaicans in the USA
Friday, November 18, 2011IF Lowell Hawthorne had succumbed to his earliest entrepreneurial temptation, the world would have been deprived of more than a legendary producer of patties and other culinary delights. For us in Ja ...more 1 comments -
Nicey's Food Mart — a piece of Jamaica in Toronto
Monday, November 14, 2011FOR thousands of Jamaicans living within the Greater Toronto area of Canada, relief from the occasional bout of nostalgia does not always involve a four-hour journey on an aircraft. Nicey's Food Mart ...more 6 comments -
Verona Greenland – transforming the Bronx with health services
Sunday, November 13, 2011Verona Greenland landed in New York in the early 1970s with an unshakeable sense of mission. Her passion for public health and community service had led her on a transatlantic journey to America&rsqu ...more 0 comments -
Marcus and Monique Hamaty-Simmonds: Flying Cayman's flag high with Tortuga brand
Wednesday, November 09, 2011To seek comfort in the thought that they live in an expansive country, Barbadians often cast their eyes a few hundred miles north, to The Cayman Islands. For them, this tiny place would be an unlikely ...more 0 comments -
Beverly Nichols — from abandoned child to model entrepreneur
Sunday, November 06, 2011NEARLY 40 years ago, Beverly Nichols made a vow that now seems prophetic. The man with whom the nubile country girl was in love and at whose hands she eventually suffered rejection "will read about m ...more 9 comments -
George Yap: Changing lives through employment
Wednesday, November 02, 2011LEASA Industries Ltd, south Florida's prolific manufacturer and distributor of health food products, is the most memorable chapter in the story of one man who has lived multiple lives. With steely gr ...more 0 comments -
Vincent and Jeanette HoSang — a little piece of Jamaica that fries
Wednesday, November 02, 2011WHEN Vincent HoSang first set foot on American soil, the country was well into its third decade of unbroken economic boom, and its president, Lyndon B Johnson, was overseeing the final push to land th ...more 0 comments -
Richard M Powell sets sights on Jamaica
Wednesday, October 26, 2011IN a world where Wall Street has become a metaphor for everything financial, the city of Orlando, Florida seems the unlikely host for a company with credentials perfectly suited to the iconic New York ...more 4 comments -
Business Observer Lifetime Achievement awardees acceptance speeches
Wednesday, December 08, 2010Today, the Business Observer publishes the acceptance speeches by Lifetime Achievement awardees Karl Hendrickson and Sameer Younis at last week's Jamaica Observer Business Leader Awards. Hendrickson i ...more 0 comments -
Business Leader winners: Honour to whom honour is due
Friday, December 03, 2010Our heartiest congratulations to Mr Denis O'Brien, founder and chairman of Digicel, on being named the top Observer Business Leader Foreign Investor for 2009. Just as deserving of praise are the othe ...more 1 comments -
I am humbled, extremely grateful, says Digicel boss
Thursday, December 02, 2010DIGICEL founder and chairman Denis O’Brien on Tuesday night won the coveted Jamaica Observer Business Leader Foreign Investor Awards at a glamorous ceremony held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Ki ...more 5 comments -
Digicel's Denis O'Brien is this year's Business Leader
Tuesday, November 30, 2010DENIS O'BRIEN of Digicel became the recipient of the Jamaica Observer Business Leader 2009 Award at a ceremony held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston moments ago. According to O'Brien's ci ...more 0 comments -
J Wray & Nephew message for Business Leader 2009 Awards
Tuesday, November 30, 2010J Wray & Nephew Limited through its flagship brand Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum is very proud to once again partner with the Jamaica Observer to present the Business Leader Awards. This award cont ...more 0 comments -
PanCaribbeanBank message for Business Leader 2009 Awards
Tuesday, November 30, 2010On behalf of PanCaribbeanBank, I congratulate the nominees of this year’s Jamaica Observer Business Leader Awards. This marks our fourth year as a major sponsor and it continues to impress me with ins ...more 0 comments -
PanCaribbean, JTB hail Observer Business Leader nominees for creating jobs
Tuesday, November 30, 2010PanCaribbeanBank Limited and the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) yesterday hailed the 2009 Observer Business Leader Award nominees for creating new jobs in Jamaica and expressed confidence that the countr ...more 0 comments -
Important to highlight overseas investors, says J Wray & Nephew
Monday, November 29, 2010J Wray & Nephew, which for decades has been promoting Jamaica around the world by constantly opening new and emerging markets for its flagship brand Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum, has hailed the dec ...more 0 comments -
Business Leader Foreign Investor award timely — JAMPRO
Monday, November 29, 2010JAMPRO, the State agency established to attract new investments to Jamaica, says the focus of the 2009 Observer Business Leader Awards supports its message that Jamaica is open for business and that t ...more 0 comments -
Hendrickson, Younis to be given lifetime achievement awards
Wednesday, November 24, 2010Karl Hendrickson and Sameer Younis took separate paths towards entrepreneurism and building enduring legacies within post independent Jamaica: Hendrickson as the creator and patriarch of an impressive ...more 0 comments -
What the selectors think about the Business Leader nominees
Wednesday, November 24, 2010The local entrepreneurs who make up the Business Leader Foreign Investor Award selection committee have expressed high praises for the six overseas investors who have been nominated for the 2009 Jamai ...more 0 comments -
Michael Lee Chin: setting new heights for investors
Wednesday, November 17, 2010AT his press conference on Friday, January 11, 2002 to announce the sale of National Commercial Bank (NCB), Dr Omar Davies is uncharacteristically muted. With ritualistic dispassion, the finance mini ...more 2 comments -
Brendan Paddick: Taking Flow to everybody's doorstep
Sunday, November 07, 2010DURING conversations about Jamaica, Brendan Paddick can't resist making passing reference to his tortuous 10-mile journey from the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, to Gordon House, six ...more 0 comments -
Carlos del Rio — bringing Sangster International into the 21st century
Sunday, October 24, 2010ON a flight path towards Montego Bay, minutes from landing, the Caribbean Sea that dominated the visual span of the aircraft passengers gradually begins to yield to the breathtaking white sand beaches ...more 4 comments -
Denis O'Brien — opening up communication to all
Wednesday, October 20, 2010THREE University of Technology students are leisurely browsing the Wednesday edition of the Jamaica Observer newspaper. The story announcing the Business Leader Foreign Investor Award catches the atte ...more 0 comments -
Luis and Carmen Riu — Tourism's game-changers
Wednesday, October 13, 2010ON the final day of a hectic investment promotion mission in Spain, a senior JAMPRO official is tying up a few loose ends with an executive from one of the country's large hotel g ...more 0 comments -
Arthur Lok Jack: the human face of 'Trinidad's invasion'
Sunday, October 03, 2010AT the height of the 1990s' economic meltdown, a Trinidadian with the reputation as a deft deal maker began sharing with skeptical boardroom colleagues the outlines of an audacious business idea he ha ...more 0 comments
