Patterson
Former Prime Minister P J Patterson has launched an international consulting firm and has set up shop on the 10th floor of the Life of Jamaica Centre in New Kingston.
Patterson was not available for comment yesterday, but an announce-ment of the venture sent to a select group named the outfit as HeisConsults and said that it was an regional and international consulting firm.
A lawyer by training, Patterson served as Prime Minister for 14 years until he retired in March. Prior to being Prime Minister, Patterson held several ministerial posts, including that of foreign minister and is acknowledged to have wide international contacts, especially in the developing world.
Shortly after he retired, it was announced that Patterson would join the consulting firm of Goodworks International, in which former US Ambassador to the UN and one-time mayor of Atlanta, Andrew Young, is a principal.
It was not clear whether that arrangement remains intact and what, if any, relationship exists between Goodworks and HeisConsults.
This will be Patterson's second stint at international consultancy. After he lost his parliamentary seat in the 1980 general election, Patterson became a partner in a then new law firm Rattray, Patterson and Rattray and help form a separate consulting company.
