Business events in photos

1.  Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, examines the merchandise on display at House of Bags, a new store launched on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, accompanied by Chief Executive Officer Juliet Moss-Solomon. House of Bags is located at Barbican Centre in Kingston.

J$60 billion infrastructure investment

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2.  Deputy financial secretary in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Ann Marie Rhoden, addresses participants at the opening of a five-day training seminar on private participation in infrastructure development, on Monday, February 21, at the Management Institute for National Development (MIND) in Kingston. Seated from left are Kim Phan, executive director of the International Law Institute (ILI), and Glynis Salmon, acting chief executive officer of MIND. Rhoden said assessment of the water and housing sectors, roads and transportation, including port development, showed that the Jamaican Government has, over the past four years, spent approximately J$40 billion annually on infrastructural programmes, and that for the 2010-11 period, which closes in March, it is estimated that approximately J$60 billion would have been spent in the named areas. The workshop was developed by ILI in partnership with MIND and the Cabinet Office for public officials engaged in the design, negotiation, and financing of private participation in infrastructure.

3. Diageo's Learning for Life skills training project graduated its 2011 batch of students in Kingston on Thursday, February 24. Here from, Marlon Dunkley, student of Project Entrepreneur-Tiling class; Ryan Mitto, the class valedictorian, and Marguerite Cremin, Diageo regionals head of corporate relations, are tickled by something said by Janelle Prieto, Diageo Learning for Life manager.The project focuses on training residents of inner-city communities to make them more marketable to company recruiters. Its aim is to improve the skills of some 50,000 persons by the end of 2011.