Juliet Moss-Solomon (left), chairman and chief executive officer of Compact Travel Agency, raps with Sharon Laidlaw (centre), director - human resource development at Courts Jamaica Ltd., and Arnaldo Peralto, operational manager, Free Form Factory, shortly after they collected the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) awards for job creation on behalf of their respective companies. Mrs. Laidlaw collected for Courts Jamaica Limited, which received the award for job creation over 40 years, while both Mrs. Moss-Solomon and Mr. Peralto collected the award for small businesses. The occasion was the PSOJ's monthly Job Creation Awards breakfast held yesterday at the Terra Nova hotel, St. Andrew. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

THREE job-creating companies were yesterday recognised by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) for strides they have made in providing employment.

The companies - Courts Jamaica Ltd., polystyrene manufacturers, Free Form Factory Ltd., and Compact Travel Agency Limited - were recognised at the PSOJ's Job Creation Awards ceremony at the Terra Nova hotel yesterday.

Criteria

The awardees met the criteria of having made investments that have led to the creation of a minimum of 25 newly - employed persons within the previous 12 months in the case of companies, and five new jobs in the case of small businesses.

Compact Travel Agency, which has been in operation since 1989, and the five-year-old Free Form factory walked away with job creation awards for small businesses.

Furniture giants Courts Jamaica Ltd., which has been in existence for more than 40 years, also got a prestigious award for providing jobs and nation building.