BCIC AT 50! - Minister Horace Dally (left) joins Chairman Joseph M. Matalon and Managing Director Peter Levy in raising a toast to BCIC at the insurance company's 50th anniversary cocktail reception on Thursday, January 17 at the Mona Visitors' Lodge.-Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer

SHOW OF UNITY Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips enter the press room at Jamaica House on Monday, January 14. The top two in Government faced the media at a press conference to assert that a deal with the International Monetary Fund was in sight and to warn that it would come with bitter medicine.-Rudolph Brown/Photographer

Dr Wayne Henry appears intrigued by the point being made by Pam Thompson (right), chief project officer at Jamaica National. Donneth Edmondson, monitoring and evaluation specialist of UNICEF, is at centre. They were at the launch of STATIN's new automated paperless system - Electronic Data Collection System or eDaCs - held at Knutsford Court Hotel on January 15.

FACE OF THE WEEK - Michael Isaacs and Lana Forbes are obviously having a great time at the Scotia Insurance Life Stars Awards 2012 ceremony held at the Hilton Rose Hall Hotel in Montego Bay on January 12.-Rudolph Brown/Photographer

Mark Nieta catches up with Judith Bloomfield, operations manager of Sterling Asset Management, at the Sterling Asset customer appreciation cocktails held at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Thursday, January 17.-Photos by Rudolph Brown/Photographer

Jennifer Cheesman (right) regales Charles Ross and his daughter, Marian Ross (left), with an anecdote at the Sterling Asset Management customer appreciation cocktails at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Thursday, January 17.-Rudolph Brown/Photographer

Delroy Foster, regional supervisor for JN Small Business Loans Limited, Region Four, accepts the Manchester Chamber of Commerce's Visionary Award from Shian Blackwood, human resource manager at Ricam Construction, at the Chamber's annual awards ceremony and banquet held at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville on January 12. The award is presented to companies that demonstrate leadership and support of the small business sector in Manchester.-CONTRIBUTED

JNBS loans officer Cheryl Kerr Daley (left) and loans officer Michael Collins (right) flank an unnamed new member of JNBS clutching a goodie bag at the building society's 'Wealth Mixer' held at Hope Zoo in St Andrew on January 12.- Contributed

JIS - Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Anthony Hylton (right) and executive director, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Yvonne Hall (left), sign a memorandum of understanding between the BSJ and Jamaica Business Development Corporation to assist micro, small and medium-sized enterprises with implementing standards and/or quality systems within their organisations. The signing took place on January 17 at the ministry's New Kingston offices. Also signing was the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, represented by President Brian Pengelley (standing). Seated at second right is State Minister Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams.

Lissant Mitchell (centre), CEO of Scotia Investments, poses with Sportswoman of the Year Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, (left) and Olympian Juliet Campbell at the Scotiabank Golden Cleats Awards Luncheon at the Venetian Suite, Terra Nova All Suite Hotel, on January 8.