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Published:Sunday | March 11, 2012 | 12:00 AM
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Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, Michele Rollins (centre) and Tony Harrison.
From left: K.S. Kumar, Sutherland Global Services; attorney Nadine Amos, chairman of JAMPRO; Milton Samuda; and attorney Kelly Greenaway are caught on camera at the final night function of the Jamaica Investment Forum at the Rose Hall Great House on March 1 in Montego Bay.
Pat Ramsey (left) poses with one of the first black women on Wall Street, Marianne Spragginz, at the final night function of the Jamaica Investment Forum at the Rose Hall Great House on Thursday, March 1 in Montego Bay.
From left: William Pegnero, Jackie Simmonds and Sam Davis are also out for the party.
From left: Lorna Johnson, and Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Anthony Hylton and his wife, Yodit, pose for the camera.
Lynn Harrison (centre) poses for Outlook with his children Angel (left) and Asa.
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Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:

Prospective investors hungry to do business with Jamaica were exposed the island's rich entertainment for two consecutive nights in the tourism capital, Montego Bay, on Wednesday and Thursday, March 1 and 2.

Some 400 visitors attending the inaugural JAMPRO-organised Jamaica Investment Forum in the Second City were fêted at the Iberostar Suites and the historic Rose Hall Great House each evening after some serious deliberations on the prospects available for investment.

On Wednesday, Philipp Hofer and his team at Iberostar opened the appetites at what could easily have been labelled a grand feast, while Michele Rollins and the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall team changed the pace Thursday, showing the diversity of Jamaica.

By Friday morning, the Russians were ready to pump some serious money into ethanol and Fortune 500 company Convergys was looking at exactly where in Freeport it would set up shop.

Milton Samuda, Sancia Templer, Mark Thomas, Nicole Pandohie, Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Anthony Hylton; Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, the junior minister, who continues to bat for the west, and the women and men who represented the Office of the Prime Minister Western Jamaica can feel proud - this event was a tremendous success.

janet.silvera@gleanerjm.com