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Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips (centre), displays the 2015 Latin America Bond Deal of the Year Award at the International Financing Review (IFR) award ceremony, held on February 10, at the headquarters of the IFR in Times Square, Manhattan, New York. Sharing in the occasion (from left) are: Thompson Reuters Bureau Chief of the Americas, John Doran; Managing Director and Head of Latin America Capital Markets Organization, Citi Global Group, Christopher Gilford; Technical Advisor to Minister Phillips, Helen McIntosh; Financial Secretary, Donovan Rowe; Dian Black of the Ministry of Finance, and Maxim Vernon from Merrill Lynch.
Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips (centre), displays the 2015 Latin America Bond Deal of the Year Award at the International Financing Review (IFR) award ceremony, held on February 10, at the headquarters of the IFR in Times Square, Manhattan, New York. Sharing in the occasion (from left) are: Thompson Reuters Bureau Chief of the Americas, John Doran; Managing Director and Head of Latin America Capital Markets Organization, Citi Global Group, Christopher Gilford; Technical Advisor to Minister Phillips, Helen McIntosh; Financial Secretary, Donovan Rowe; Dian Black of the Ministry of Finance, and Maxim Vernon from Merrill Lynch.

Bond Deal of the Year Award Shows Confidence in Country – Finance Minister

By: Derrick Scott, February 12, 2016
Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. the Hon. Peter Phillips, says the Latin America  Bond Deal of the Year award given to Jamaica by the International Financing Review (IFR), shows  the...
Recipient of the Atlanta Jamaica Association (AJA) Black History Month Award, Jamaican born Professor of Theology and Ethics at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Noel Erskine (center) displays his award at the AJA’s Black History Month celebration, which was held at the St. Timothy Methodist Church on Saturday, February 6. Others (from left) are: Immediate Past President of the AJA, Errol Ritchie; Journalist, Mrs. Connie Whitter; wife of Professor Erskine, Glenda Erskine, and Jamaica’s Honorary Consul to Atlanta, Mrs. Jewel Scott.

Jamaican Born Professor gets Black History Month Award in Atlanta

By: Derrick Scott, February 9, 2016
Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ralph Thomas (centre); United States Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke (2nd left); and President of Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO), Gary Williams (4th left), shares with COJO’s 2015 honourees, at the organisation’s 21st annual Awards and Scholarship Gala held at the JFK Airport, Hilton New York hotel in Queens recently. The honourees are (from left): Trevor Smith, representing Visionary awardee Patrick Jolley; Madge Warren, Distinguished Service awardee; Olympian Veronica Campbell Brown, who received the Humanitarian Award; Oliver McKenzie and Attorney Donald Vernon, who received the Community Service Award; and Carl Stuart, who received the Corporate Award for Caribbean Airlines.

Ambassador Thomas Hails Contribution of COJO

By: Derrick Scott, December 8, 2015

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