Gloria Henry, assistant vice-president of operations and customer relations at the Port Authority of Jamaica is now president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is the second woman to hold the position and has replaced former president Nathan Rob, a prominent Mo Bay attorney.

Henry started her career as a manaaement support agent for the Development Bank of Jamaica in 1993, where she worked for more than 10 years, according to her LinkedIn profile. She then moved on to the Montego Bay Free Zone where whe worked as operation manager for some eight years before moving on to the Port Authority.

Henry studied project managment at the University of the West Indies in 2012 and holds an executive MBA from the University College of the Caribbean in Kingston as well as a BSc in general managment from Nova Southeastern University, based in Florida, USA.

The 70-year-old Chamber brings together some 200 businesses and indiviuals, and lobbies for a wide variety of issues in areas such as city development plannning, improving infrastructure, more efficient crime fighting strategies, social intervention projects, job creation initiatives, tourism enhancement and development, as well as more basic issues like traffic management, garbage collection and beautification.

Johnson Smith and Shoucair team up

Attorneys-at-law Kamina Johnson Smith and Joe Shoucair have announced their partnership of senior counsel at K. johnson smith & Co.

Johnson Smith worked for some 13 years as in-house counsel for LIME. she started at the organisation for Cable and Wireless plc head office in London in 2005. One year later she moved back to Kingston where she worked as assistant company secretary for some four years, taking over the company secretary role in 2011. In 2013 Johnson Smith was promoted to head of corporate affairs and projects, before leaving in September 2014 to start up her own law firm.

Prior to joining LIME, Johnson Smith was an associate at law firm Clinton Hart & Co from 1999 to 2001. She started her career in 1994 as a bilingual assistant at the French Embassy in Kingston where she worked for one year.

A senator, Johnson Smith is also the opposition spokesperson on education and youth.

Johnson Smith holds an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Legal Education Certificate from the Norman Manley Law School at Mona. She earned her LLB from the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in French and International relations from UWI at Mona.

Shoucair was first called to the Jamaican Bar in 1976 and worked primarily for the banking sector including some 20 years as in-house councel for National Commercial Bank. He has also worked in several other legal areas, including land development, public and private sector loan agreements, and mergers and receiverships.

Shoucair was previously managing director of the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) and from 2008 to 2013 he headed the Housing Agency of Jamaica. More recently he has Company and Banking Law at the Mona School of Business at the University of the West Indies.