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Apr 29
Jamaica Charts New Path to Digital Future at MSBM hosted Inaugural Caribbean DPI Summit
After two and a half days of dynamic dialogue between April 8-10, 2025, bold commitments, and regional solidarity, the curtains came down on the inaugural Caribbean Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Summit at the University of the West Indies, Mona. The summit, a first of its kind in the region, was hosted by the Mona School of Business and Management in collaboration with Co-Develop, a grant-making and resource mobilisation organisation, and brought together policymakers, innovato ››Read More
MSBM marks 10 years of the merger between Mona School of Business and the Department of Management Studies
August 1, 2022, marked a very special milestone in the life of our School as ten years ago on August 1, 2012, the Mona School of Business (MSB) and the Department Of Management Studies (DOMS) merged to form the Mona School of Business & Management (MSBM).  MSBM inherited and built on the rich traditions, strength and impact of both parents and emerged “Stronger Together” to become the premier Business School in the Caribbean. Guided by our vision, our ethos has been one of exc ››Read More
Mr. Patrick Hylton appointed Chairman of Mona School of Business and Management
  Mr. Patrick Hylton, President and CEO, NCB Group has been appointed Chairman of Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) with effect on August 1, 2021. Mr. Hylton is no stranger to MSBM, having served as Chairman between 2015 and 2019. He boasts an illustrious banking career which includes his tenure as Managing Director of Financial Institutions Services Limited and FINSAC, where he successfully led the intervention, rehabilitation and divestment of the Jamaican banking an ››Read More
Lawrence Nicholson: The invisible hand in family businesses needs to be visible
The long and storied history of family-owned businesses, FOBs, has been plagued by the hurdle of not always recognising the real influence in many successful family ventures – the ‘invisible hand’ of the woman. The role and influence of women in FOBs are more than the relic of the past, where, inter alia, women were denied loans from financial institutions to start or support businesses, unless such agreement was signed or co-signed by their husbands or male partners. This was n ››Read More
Skills for the Future graduate reaps rewards
Javaughn Douglas, a recent graduate of the Flow Foundation’s Skills for the Future digital literacy programme, is ready to put his training to good use after being selected for an internship with technology company Fujitsu. Douglas, who was the valedictorian and top overall student with an average of 99.6 per cent for the second cohort of graduates in April, will gain valuable experience as a data entry clerk. He said the Skills for the Future programme played a tremendous role in ››Read More
Delroy Hunter | The cost of using fiscal councils to achieve discipline
Jamaica is in the process of establishing a fiscal council, an entity tasked with assisting the government in conducting more fiscally responsible operations. If the government emulates the best in class, then the local fiscal council should be a legally and operationally independent entity that assesses government’s forecasts of revenues and expenses, develops its own forecasts, makes possibly binding recommendations on matters of fiscal policy, and robustly communicates with th ››Read More
450 graduate from FLOW Skills for the Future programme
The FLOW Foundation recently graduated 450 students from its second cohort of the Skills for the Future Programme. The recent graduation now brings the total to almost 600 Jamaicans that have successfully completed the programme, many of whom are employing the skills they have learnt in their daily lives. Kayon Mitchell, executive director of the FLOW Foundation, commended the graduates for their commitment to improving themselves. The graduates included high school students as we ››Read More
Lawrence Nicholson | Family business governance is critical
    Good governance is critical for effective generational transition and sustainability of family-owned businesses, FOBs, and goes beyond boards of directors and advisory boards. There is the need to adopt a family governance framework to address the ad hoc, disorganised and informal approach to governance observed in many FOBs The framework refers to joint decision-making among family members, structures and processes that families use to guide their relationships within the ››Read More
The UWI and University of Waterloo, Canada sign a Student Mobility Agreement to facilitate Exchange of Students
            The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and Canada’s University of Waterloo (UW) have renewed a landmark student mobility agreement. After finalising the details of the arrangement in 2021, officials of the two Universities met virtually on Thursday May 5 for the symbolic signing of the agreement. The agreement strengthens opportunities for internationalizing educational programmes through student mobility initiatives, aimed at developing global citizenship, ››Read More
Vincent HoSang UWI Venture Competition All Star: Mother Teresa Driving School
  Mother Teresa Driving School CEO Leneka Rhoden, a graduate of the Queens High School and Faculty of Social Sciences with an Honors BSc. Degree in Marine Biology and International Relations, started the driving school to teach a new generation to have knowledge, respect and discipline when on the road. Her entrepreneurial journey began when she came to the personal realization that she did not want to put in what she characterizes as “116,480 hours” of work for someone else, so ››Read More
JMMB/Joan Duncan Memorial Scholarships 2022
  Applications are OPEN for the JMMB/Joan Duncan Memorial Scholarships 2022! Please download application form at https://bit.ly/JMMBScholarships2022 and email completed form to msbm@uwimona.edu.jm with the subject line: “JMMB Scholarship 2022”. Deadline: May 31, 2022. ››Read More