On 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 inspiring stories of leaders with uncommon vision.

This year, the Jamaica Observer has dedicated the awards to a special category of business leaders – leaders who truly chose to invest in Jamaica. Through visionary leadership, the nominees of this prestigious award recognized the potential of our island and planted resources firmly in our soil. Many have become almost indistinguishable from native Jamaicans – in their demonstration of commitment to and confidence in the economic future of this country. They may well be described as friends of Jamaica.

I note with interest that the nominees represent a wide range of industries – tourism, telecommunications, financial services and transportation and that many of these ventures are entrepreneurial in nature – bringing to Jamaica new technologies, new business models and creating new opportunities for not just economic growth, but also growth in our human capital.

PanCaribbeanBank is proud to be associated with the Jamaica Observer Business Leader Awards and with the success stories that are written every day by our home-grown entrepreneurs and our foreign investors alike. We all form a part of the “Jamaican Dream” of economic prosperity built on a progressive and peaceful society.  Let us work to shape the future of Jamaica, together.

– Philip Armstrong, Managing Director