Business events in pictures

(1) World Bank representative, Mozammal Hoque, giving a PowerPoint presentation entitled 'Parliamentary Control of Public Expenditures' at a broadbased workshop hosted by the World Bank on the role and responsibilities of parliamentarians held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Also pictured from left are Speaker of the House of Representatives, Delroy Chuck; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr Kenneth Baugh and World Bank Country Representative Giorgio Valentini; all of whom are paying attention to the display being shown by Hoque. - JIS

(2) Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Dr Christopher Tufton (second right) talking food over a display of produce with (from left) president and chief executive officer, Jamaica Broilers Group, Christopher Levy; Digicel's sponsorship manager, Tahnida Nunes; president, Jamaica Agricultural Society, Glendon Harris; and senior sponsorship manager and event strategist, Jamaica National Building Society, Joy Bennett, during the launch of this year's Denbigh Agricultural Show, set for July 30-August 1. The launch was held on the grounds of Broilers' retail facility, Ace Supercentre, at White Marl, St Catherine, on Tuesday, June 21. - Contributed

(3) Carlos A. Cintron, collaboration architecture specialist with Cisco, shows off the power and versatility of Cisco's videoconferencing solutions as he facilitates a video call between the guests at LIME's Executive Breakfast Seminar and Cisco's Telepresence Systems Engineer Francisco Tobon, who is seen on the monitor at his office in Bogotá, Colombia. The seminar was held on Wednesday, June 22, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. At the event, Cisco announced that LIME had achieved advanced unified communications specialisation which means members of its sales and technical support team are now qualified to sell, deploy, and support comprehensive Cisco Unified Communications solutions like the videoconferencing service.  - Gladstone Taylor/Photographer

(4) Mark Croskery (far right), chief executive officer of Stocks and Securities Limited, the lead broker and financial adviser on the AMG Packaging and Paper Company Limited initial public offering, speaks at an investors' briefing on AMG's plans to go public and list on the junior market at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in Kingston on Tuesday, June 21. Seated from left are representatives of the box manufacturing company: chairman Mark Chin; Chief Executive Officer George Hugh; non-executive directors Peter Chin and Paul Chin; and General Manager Michael Chin. The AMG IPO debuts on June 29 at J$2.88 per share.

(5)  Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation Inc, Jason Rudd, swears his oath on the Bible ahead of a second round of testimony on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, before the Finsac commission of enquiry, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Rudd testified that some US$172 million (J$15 billion) of Finsac debt remained uncollected, and that most of the bad debt might be unrecoverable.