Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, officially opens theMarket Place at the Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference held last week at the Jamaica ConferenceCentre in downtown Kingston from July 24-26. Participating in the opening were: Seth GeorgeRamocan (left), Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; Earl Jarrett, CEO of theJamaica National Group and chairman of the Diaspora Foundation; Vivienne Bayley Hay, lead groupcorporate affairs and communications at the Victoria Mutual Building Society; Steven Sykes, directoroperations, National Baking Company Ltd and Shereen Jones, chief information technology at theJamaica National Group. The opening took place on day three of the conference.
August 1, 2017
Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference
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are a few shots from last week’s Diaspora Conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.
A laugh among educators:From left: Minister ofEducation, Youth andInformation, Senator RuelReid (left), shares a jokewith Dr Renee Rattray,senior manager, learning,development and culture,The Jamaica NationalGroup; Leo Gilling, lead,Jamaica EducationTask Force, USA; TrevorMassey, chair, LifelongLeadership Institute,Toronto, Canada; andDr Hansel Parchment,Professor and ViceChairman, Basic Sciences,Division of Microbiology,School Medicine, LomaLinda Univeristy, USA. Allfive were participants inthe session: Building OurHuman Capital, during dayone of the Jamaica 55Diaspora Conference . Thesession was moderatedby Dr Rattray.
Senators in conversation: Senator Don Wehby, who is also CEOof the GraceKennedy Group, in conversation with colleague in theupper house, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of ForeignAffairs and Foreign Trade during day three of the Conference.
Harrington Stephenson, manager, JN Representative Office inToronto, Canada shares a moment with Tristana Lambert of theNational Housing Trust at the Market Place at Conference.
Victoria Rowell of The Young and the Restless fame greets DarylVaz, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growthand Job Creation with responsibility for Land, Climate Change andInvestments during day two of t Conference. Sharing the momentis Earl Jarrett (second from left), CEO of The Jamaica NationalGroup.
(From Left) President and CEO of Victoria mutual building Society, Courtney Campbell, Senator Don Wehby, Chief Executive Officerof the GraceKennedy Group and Franz Hall Consul General,Consulate General of Jamaica Miami, Florida pose for a photo atthe hospitality event hosted by Victoria Mutual and GraceKennedyat Hope Gardens in Kingston last week Tuesday
