Montego Bay's Mayor Noel Donaldson (right) seems to have hardware mogul, Basil Johnson (second right) and owners of Montego Bay's most popular restaurant, The Pelican, Peter and Elaine Scuadamore, in stitches during the Pan Caribbean Financial Services Limited launch of its Montego Bay branch at Half Moon Resort, Montego Bay.
Janet Silvera, Gleaner Writer
WESTERN BUREAU:
Tons of flora encased the stunning red carpet that Pan Caribbean Financial Services Limited spread at the entrance of the Cornwall Room at Half Moon Resort, Montego Bay, last Friday, delivering on its promise to 'roll out the red carpet' to western Jamaica.
Pan Caribbean's chief executive officer, Donovan Perkins, and his Kingston team came equipped with 'Friendly City Passports' in hand, and the surprisingly large group that turned out to welcome them wasn't about to revoke their new residency status.
Brand new offices at the Life of Jamaica building providing employment to some of the tourism capital's best, enabling educational opportunities for the city's youths and forming a relationship with the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce proved they had already made the right moves in the friendly city.
great tasting food
Senior vice-president of the group, Anya Schnoor, spoke of the city's pride, the world famous Doctor's Cave Beach and her early days spent there, virtually earning her place among the citizens of the republic.
Speeches aside, great tasting food and a bar that had no possibility of running dry, heightened the energy that emanated from the packed room.
Pan Caribbean has what is termed in the world of business as 'Goodwill', having bought the Montego Bay-based Lets Investments and merging that
company with Manufacturers Sigma.
historic occasion
The dapper-looking Mayor, Councillor Noel Donaldson, was among the persons who turned out for the historic occasion, so were Dorothy Marzouca, former owner of Lets Investments, her son John Byles and wife Paola, hardware mogul Basil Johnson, attorneys-at-law Clayton and Doris Morgan, George Thomas and Andrea Lyle, National Commercial Bank's Bay West Complex manager Yvonne Wright, Winston and Denise Dear, Don and Ayesha Creary, Dr. Horace Chang, Elaine and Peter Scudamore and Kumar Samtani.
The Pan Caribbean management team of Maurice Facey, Yvonne Buchanan, Stephanie Vassell, Henry Pratt, Tara Nunez, Karen Vaz, Rez Burchenson, Philip Armstrong and Faith Gordon.
The likes of Ian Dear, Keith Slack, Shallman Scott, Peter and Lorna Pitter, Mark and Paula Kerr-Jarrett, Mark and Carlene Duhaney, Winston Chin, Robert Russell, Conrad Kirlew, Grace Martin, Kay-Ann Reuben, Anthony McCardy and Hazel Wilson.
