From left: Orette Duncan, client and partner services manager, GK General Insurance (GKGI); Marva Allen-Simms, board director, Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers; poultry farmer, Shariann Brown, who recently received a symbolic cheque of $2.2m for the payout from GK Weather Protect, a parametric insurance coverage, payable to 30 female farmers following the passage of Hurricane Melissa; Steven Whittingham, chief executive officer of the GraceKennedy Financial Group; C.A.R.E International’s Jonathan Arageti, Caribbean humanitarian response lead; and Camille Davis, senior humanitarian director, who sponsored the insurance payments. For the 2025 Hurricane Season, GKGI has disbursed approximately $5.44m to insured farmers islandwide.
