Snapshots
Marlene Street-Forrest, (left) general manager of JSE, looks on while Krystal Chong, chief marketing officer of Honey Bun 1982 Limited, unveils the baking company's new products after ringing the bell at the Jamaica Stock Exchange to start the trading day on Tuesday, May 1. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer
Satania Brown, human resources executive at Sandals Negril, receives her Manager of the Year award from HR director Dr Phillip Brown and GM Andre Dhanpaul at the hotel's Annual Prestige Awards held April 26. - Photo Courtesy of Sandals
The Rev Dr Garnet Brown (right), a customer since 1957 of JN General Insurance Company (JNGI), formerly NEM Insurance Company, greets bearer Brenford Williams, who has worked with JNGI since 1969, while JNGI General Manager Chris Hind looks on at the renaming and official opening of JNGI's refurbished offices in downtown Kingston, on Tuesday, May 1. - Photo Courtesy of JNBS
Wine enthusiast and co-owner of Bin 26, Chris Reckford, samples the 'raspberry shiraz sorbet heaven' at the Debz Foods booth at JMA/JEA Expo 2012 last weekend. Debz founder Deborah Belcher assists. - Contributed
FACE OF THE WEEK - Medical student Candi Whittick got a boost last week when new online company IrieSocial handed over J$130,000 towards her studies, with the presentation which was made by track star Asafa Powell at the launch of IrieSocial on Wednesday, May 2.- Gladstone TayloR/Photographer
Munro old boy C. Lloyd Allen turns on the charm and Sharon Weber of the PetroCaribe Development Fund could not resist him. Occasion was the handover of J$7.7m to Munro College for a renewable-energy project at the school based in St Elizabeth. - JIS Photo
NEW BOYS ON THE BLOCK - They have already had one big coup - getting Asafa Powell to back their company as an investor and face of the online marketplace business IrieSocial. Co-founders Garnette Rose (left) and Will Pate will run the company as CEO and chief operating officer, respectively.
Sagicor Life's Merrick Plummer serves up his appetising peppered steak to patrons at the annual 'Men Who Cook', Lions Charities fund-raising event at Brooks Park, Mandeville, on Sunday, April 29.- Contributed