New boards in place - Vin Lawrence heads Clarendon Alumina Production team

Saturday, February 25, 2012

FORMER head of the Urban Development Corporation, Dr Vincent 'Vin' Lawrence has been appointed chairman of the nine-member board of Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) Limited.

His appointment was one of dozens announced by the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday. Overall, members of 25 boards were announced, with the appointments taking effect on February 13 and to last for a year.

Also sitting on the CAP board are Jopseph Cox, Delrose Campbell, Winston Hepburn, and Junior Rose — who currently chairs the People's National Party Youth Organisation — as well as Roderick Gordon, Moses Green, and Michelle Forbes.

Attorney and Jamaica Chamber of Commerce President Milton Samuda now heads the board of Jamaica Promotions Corporation Limited, with Jamaica National Building Society boss Earl Jarrett serving as vice chairman.

Former solicitor general Michael Hylton, QC is head of the eight-member Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority board, which also includes the authority's director general, Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Derby.

Dennis Chung is chairman of the Jamaica Ultimate Tyre Company Limited board and Garnet Roper heads that of the problem-plagued Jamaican Urban Transit Company Limited.

Noel Hylton remains executive chairman of the board of the Port Authority of Jamaica, with former Jamaica Tourist Board head, Dennis Morrison, as vice chair. Morrison, meantime, has also been appointed head of the Airports Authority of Jamaica board.

Human rights advocate Yvonne McCalla-Sobers is chair of the 12-member e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited board, which also has among its members entertainer Lloyd Lovindeer and media personality Fae Ellington.

Among the other board chairs named are Linton Walters, Jamaica Bauxite Limited; Reverend Garnet Roper, Rural Electrification Programme Limited; Erwin Jones, Petrojam Limited; Christopher Cargill, Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica; Hugh Campbell, Petrojam Ethanol Limited; Anthony Graham, Petroleum Company of Jamaica Limited; Ian Kelly, Wigton Wind Farm; Noel DaCosta, Jamaica Aircraft Refuelling Services Limited; and Gary Peart, Jamaica Bauxite Institute.