Scotiabank sweetens Trade and Investment Mission to J’ca

Scotiabank recently sponsored a breakfast meeting at the Trinidad Hilton and Conference Centre on July 30 to promote the upcoming Trade and Investment Mission to Jamaica on September 7-12. The Trade Mission is also being sponsored by Scotiabank and is being organised jointly with the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) and the Tourism and Industrial Development Com-pany of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (TIDCO). The Mission will be held at the Hilton, Kingston to showcase the goods and services of Trinidad and Tobago businessmen, and to meet with the Jamaican business community.  The primary objective of this Mission is to further enhance and strengthen commercial trade relations between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and stimulate the shared vision of economic integration in the Caribbean region.

At the breakfast meeting,  Richard P Young, Managing Director of Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Limited told the business community to “be more aggressive and with a sense of urgency to make their businesses into competitive global brands”. His Excellency Lorne T Mc Donnough, High Commissioner for Jamaica stated that the Jamaican government continues to “fine-tune its fiscal and monetary policies to cope with the effects of liberalisation while ensuring that the economic foundation is laid for sustainable growth and development”. Also speaking at the breakfast meeting was Janice Robinson, General Manager of Scotia Jamaica Investment Management Limited, who presented “Jam-aica’s Business Environment - The Real Story.” She addressed the business partnership bond that exists between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and supported further joint ventures to “enable Caribbean territories to survive the erosion of preferential trade agreements, the establishment of the Free Trade Areas of the Americas in 2005 and global competition.”