From left: Kareema Muncey, CEO, Home Choice Enterprises; Shaheed Muhammad, general manager, Home Choice Enterprises; Fahad Siddiqui, IBM consultant; Dwight Jackson, assistant VP for capital markets at VM Wealth; and Michael Gillett-Chambers, director of the Jamaica Foundation for Islamic Charity, pose for the camera at the Empowerment Seminar and Business Expo held recently. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
November 15, 2022
Business Social – November 16
In recent years, Jamaica’s Muslim community has been getting more vocal about its practices and businesses and on Sunday, they gathered at The Summit (formerly Knutsford Court Hotel) in New Kingston, St Andrew, for an empowerment seminar and business expo. At that event, they showcased Muslim businesses in the country and pressed for other entrepreneurs to target the growing halal business market, not only in Jamaica, but worldwide. It’s a market, which they point out, is projected to reach US$3.5 trillion by 2023. Business Social has highlights of the event.
“The Captain” mixologist prepares halal beverages at the recently held empowerment seminar and business expo put on by the country’s Muslim business community. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Shaheed Muhammad, general manager at Home Choice enterprises and host of the Empowerment Seminar and Business Expo, makes a point to the audience. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
From left: Rez Burchenson (left), CEO, VM Investments, and Wade Brown, director of the Muslim Chamber of Commerce, engage in conversation at the empowerment seminar and business expo put on by Jamaica’s Muslim business leaders on Sunday. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Mahalil Navaz, owner, Sana Trading Limited distributor of Sweeto Candies, speaks to Tashan Hendricks, managing director of Cocreate Caribbean, at the empowerment seminar and business expo held on Sunday. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
From left: Sasha-Gaye Wilson and her husband Stanford Reid, members of the Muslim business community, and their sons, listen to Mendel Thompson, manager for business development at VMBS, outlining possible financing options. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
