Corporate Canapé - recognition and announcements

 Corporate Canapé

 Recognition and Announcements

Director of Development and Public Relations at the Institute of Jamaica is Durrant Pate

Carlene L Edwards has been promoted to Sponsorship and Public Relations Manager at Supreme Ventures

Clover Johnston is the General Manager of the Bob Marley Museum

Trevesa DaSilva Ashman will shortly demit her post at the Office of the Children’s Registry

The photo album, Our Golden Jubilee of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) received the 2012-2013 Mercury Excellence Award bronze award in the photo album category for general audience. Mercury Excellence is an international awards programme for public relations

Public Relations practitioner Maia Chung of the Ministry of Agriculture  - Rural Agriculture Development Agency (RADA) will shortly launch her memoirs Maia's Journal: A Jamaican Mother's Journey with Autism

Past President, Janneth Mornan Green has launched her poetry anthology Crossings

Audrey Williams of the Jamaica Public Service has published her Kindle e-book Our Bad Dogs

Ann Margaret Lim of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade's anthology of poems Festival of Wild Orchid was shortlisted for the Bocas literary prize for poetry

Head of the Nortnern Caribbean University's Department of Communication Studies, Elaine Oxamendi Vicet, recently curated the Lignum Vitae Symposium and Film Festival called Show me the Ginger

Christopher Benjamin recently concluded PR arrangements for the commemoration of Earth Day by the Jamaica Environment Trust

Head of communications at Western Union, Patria Kay Aarons, executed the agency's annual Reading Week and is preparing for their debating competition

Dionne Rhoden and Simone Clarke Cooper are anchoring the 30th year of the participation of Grace Kennedy in the 30th Child Month activities of the Ministry of Youth and Culture

Maxine McDonnough and Marcia McDonnough of Touchstone Productions are preparing for the renewal of Jamaican Epicurean Escape food festival later this year

Grace Morrison recently executed another Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) 5K Walk Run on the Palisadoes Road with timekeeping by On Di Run

Marie Berbick Graham is now the Public Relations Manager at the Jamaica Information Service.

Director, Client Services, Communication and Information at Court Management Services, Sydian Brissett recently executed the awards ceremony for graduates of the etiquette course at the Family Court Attendance Centre of the Family Court.

PROComm recently executed the National Road Safety Council's recognition events around the visit of Prince Michael of Kent and the international road safety award that is named after him.

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Christmas Card from the Public Relations Society of Jamaica

Merry Christmas from the Public Relations Society of Jamaica

Click on the link to see our Jacquie Lawson Christmas Card.

Opportunities - US Embassy, Early Childhood Commission

The PRSJ has been advised that there will be job openings soon in the following areas:

USA Embassy Kingston PR Office.
Popular practitioner and journalist, Fern Whyte, will shortly be pursuing higher education.

The Early Childhood Commission in the Oxford Mall, Downtown Kingston will be shortly screening applicants for the post that includes public relations.

Mr Meeckel Beecher will be closing his service with the Institute of Jamaica to join the Jamaica Anti Doping Commission (JADCO).

To join the PRSJ, Click here to visit the Members Section of our website to download application form.

Are you paid up? To keep the work of the Society going ask for an invoice.

Live Trinidad TV discussion on PR solutions in Trinidad

The Public Relations Association of Trinidad and Tobago invites us to join them to watch a television programme Thursday morning, February 10, at 6:45 a.m. Jamaica (local) time on when Roy Mitchell, founder PRATT will be interviewed on the topic of Public Relations solutions to issues of public interest.

Streaming live at ctntworld.com/livestream/:

Former PRSJ President elected Chairman of Women's Leadership Initiative 2011-2013

Gleaner: December 27, 2010

Women's Leadership Initiative elects new chair


Communications Consultant Marcia Erskine has been elected chairman of the Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI) for 2011-2013.


She succeeds Senator Marlene Malahoo-Forte who recently completed a two-year term as chair of the WLI, a committee of the United Way of Jamaica (UWJ).

Mrs Erskine, managing director of the Kingston-based Caribbean Communications consultancy firm, Marcia Erskine and Associates and a member of the board of governors of the UWJ, is a founding member of the WLI and has served as chair of the communications committee since 2003.

She is also a member of the board of directors of the St Patrick's Foundation and a former president of both the Public Relations Society of Jamaica and the Jamaica and Caribbean chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.

The WLI was launched in November 2003 by former United States Ambassador to Jamaica Sue McCort Cobb following a series of 'exchanges' between a select group of women in Jamaica and Florida, United States of America, aimed at fostering economic development, knowledge sharing and partnership between the two countries.

The WLI has since accomplished much, including substantial retooling of the Sylvia Foote Basic School and the Mary Issa Clinic at the Voluntary Organisation for the Upliftment of Children in downtown Kingston. The WLI also funds three scholarships to local tertiary institutions.

Mrs Erskine said that her focus as WLI chair is to continue the work of the inaugural chair, Pat Ramsay and her successor, Senator Malahoo Forte, to achieve the mission of the WLI of "building bridges of cooperation in developing, implementing and sustaining projects in health, education and philanthropy, which contribute to the improved well-being of all Jamaicans".

A Networking Christmas Mixer

Dear Colleagues, The Public Relations Society of Jamaica (PRSJ and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) will be hosting our 2nd Annual Christmas Mixer on December 17, 2010 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel Port Antonio Suite.

The event is scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. and the theme is “Special Children” as we seek to raise awareness for children with special needs. Practitioners will be asked to pledge time in the coming year to assist the public relations needs of organisations that support these special children.

Tickets are $2,500.00 and will be available as of Monday December 6, 2010. Please contact me for tickets at:

Demares White
c/o ODPEM 2-4 Haining Road
Phone: 928-5111-4; fax 928-5503; Cel 399-1627
e-mail DWhite@ODPEM.ORG.JM

Other executive members are: Christopher Benjaminchrisbenjamin@flowja.com; Gwyneth Davidson gwyneth_h@hotmail.com; Analisa Downes adownes@slbja.com; Deborah Hickling deborahhickling@gmail.com; Stephen Shaw stephenshaw@nwa.gov.jm; Cheryl Smith cheryls@mof.gov.jm; Mark Thomas mthomas@jamprocorp.com.

We encourage you to purchase at least one ticket. You will not only be supporting a worthy cause, but also the associations that represent the professional practice of PR in Jamaica.
Regards
Delmares White

The News Awards Bursary

Republished from the October 15-November 14 edition of The News

THE NEWS AWARDS BURSARY

TO PR STUDENT

Jermaine Young, a 22-year-old second-year student at the Caribbean Institute of Media Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies, has been awarded The News bursary for the 2010/2011 academic year.

The $40,000 bursary was granted to the former captain of the Rusea's High School's School Challenge team, to mark the 24th Anniversary of the News, which began publication on October 16, 1986. In making the award, Managing Editor of the News, Ben Bridie, congratulated Young on being the student selected for the honour and encouraged him to make the most of his good fortune.

He said that the News had been established 24 years ago on the premise that the profession of journalism was a vital element in the development process of Jamaica and indeed of any country, and that this bursary underlined The News' faith in that belief.

"Make the best of it; and above all, keep your focus on national development rather than personal success. The success will come with hard work and dedication to the profession," he advised.

For his part, Young thanked the fortnightly newspaper for its gesture and promised to make the organisation proud.

He will be mastering in Public Relations