By Rasbert Turner, Gleaner WriterSPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine:
THE PORTMORE municipality is moving ahead with plans to establish a private sector organisation group to work within the area.
These steps were taken at a meeting held at the Lion's Civic Centre, Edgewater, on Wednesday, which was well attended by 40 members of the business community and was chaired by Rudolph Green, president of the St. Catherine Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The group selected 11 persons to the steering committee to work with the private sector community of Portmore with a view to form a private sector organisation. Their initial objective is to identify two persons to sit on the Citizens Advisory Committee.
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They will also have responsibility to determine the articles and memorandum and to set up basic committees that they will need to get started.
The seven persons nominated were: Millicent Lynch administrator, Caymanas Track Ltd.; Dr. Dane Levy; Archibald McCalla, businessman; Donald Walsh; Leroy Cooke, businessman; Doreen Holness of Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB); Patricia Campbell, Dehring Bunting and Golding (DB&G); Nicholas Azan businessman; Norman Walker businessman; Noel Brown businessman; and Ransford White, who will chair the committee.
In his remarks, Portmore's Mayor George Lee said that in 1972 the municipality had a total of 10,000 persons and now, reflecting over 200,000, was the fastest developing community in the English-speaking Caribbean. He implored the business community to be proactive in the approach necessary for effective and orderly change for the betterment of the municipality, which is plagued by criminality.
