CARIB CEMENT IS JIE PROJECT OF THE YEAR
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
THE Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL) Kiln 5 project has been named “Project of the Year” by the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE).
JIE President, David Chung presented the award on Saturday, November 28, 2009, at the organisation’s annual awards banquet at the Jamaica Pegasus to Ken Wiltshire, manager for the project which encompasses the construction of a new 2,800 metric tones per day clinker manufacturing line at the company’s Rockfort, Kingston plant. (more…)
‘We need a plan’ – Sagicor boss says Jamaica’s ‘corner shop’ economy holding nation back
Jamaica is lagging behind because it has no plans to solve its economic and social problems and create an environment in which the country’s potential can be realised, says the head of the island’s largest life insurance company.
Richard Byles, president and CEO of Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited, lamented the deepening of the nation’s woes, while countries like Singapore and Barbados are achieving creditable growth in their gross domestic product (GDP).
He said the growth levels of those two countries, as well as Jamaica, could in the recent past have been compared to a corner shop.
“One has become a supermarket, the other a Wal-Mart and the third has remained a corner shop. That’s Jamaica,” he declared while speaking Saturday night at the annual awards banquet of the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. (more…)
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