Persons Accepted As Student Members

Kalando Wilmoth

Memorial To Deceased Members

The PRSJ honours members who have passed on

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Immortality is the recollection one leaves...Napoleon Bonaparte

Bill Bennett

Charles Balfour

Desmond Henry

Dick Pixley

Dickie Coke

Jacqueline King
Kirsten Fraser

Patrick Jones

Pauline Gray

St Hope Thomas
Marcia Bowen 2009

Pamela White -2011
Corina Meeks - 2013

"PR means telling the truth and working ethically - even when all the media want is headlines and all the public wants is scapegoats. Public relations fails when there is no integrity."

Viv Segal, MD of Sefin Marketing.

Persons Accepted As Associate Members

Akilah Maxwell

Kamika Williams McKellop

Persons Accepted As Full Members

Aine Gaskin
Alethia Lambert
Alison Christie-Binger
Alison Symes
Alston G Stewart
Analisa Downes
Andrea Gordon-Fisher
Angela Gray
Angella Hamilton
Ann Aneita Williams
Annette Atkinson
Ann Marie Mittoo
Anthony Ray
Antoinette Knight
Audrey Anderson
Austin Maxwell


Barry L Cross (SSP)
Berl Francis
Beverley Josephs
Beverley Lewis
Beverley Newell
Bill Bennett
Bill Carter
Byron Henry

Camille Taylor
Carlene Edwards
Carmen Tipling
Carol Hay
Carole A Walker
Carole Guntley
Carroll Edwards
Charles Balfour
Cheryl Smith
Christene Bernard Collins
Christine Bell
Christopher Benjamin
Claudette Christie
Claudette Myers
Clea Mayne
Clive Oliver
Cloreth Green
Collin Campbell
Corina Meeks
Corine Kiddoe
Cynthia Williams

Daphne Northington
Daphne Schmidt
David Geddes
Dayner Azzellino
Deborah Hickling
Delmares White
Denise Hepburn Howe
Desmond Henry
Dionne Rhoden
Donna Marie Rowe
Donnette Chin-Loy
Doreen O'Connor

Ealane Livingston Smith
Easton Lee
Elaine Commissiong
Elaine Hartman-Reckord
Elizabeth Allen
Ellis James Laing
Eric Barrett
Errol Miller
Eunice Bent

Gail Sommerville
Genevieve Barnett
Genia Reynolds
Geoffrey Fairweather
George Lee
Gerrard Mc Daniel
Gillian Haughton
Glenn Bowen
Gloria Royale Davis
Gordon Brown
Gwyneth Harold

Ivor Connolly

Heatha Miller
Hector Wheeler

Jacqueline Getfield
Jacqueline King
Janice James
Janneth Mornan-Green
Jean Lowrie Chin
Jennifer McDonald
Jessica Jones
Joan Young-Davis
Judith Bruce
June Degia

Kamika Williams
Karelle McCormack
Karen Burke
Karen Findlay
Kathleen Johnson - also Life Member
Keith Brown
Keith Swaby
Ken Chaplin

Lance Neita
Leo Lambert
Leo McEwan
Leslie Bennett
Lindsay May Isaacs
Lloyd Russell
Lois Grant
Lorna Clarke
Lorna L Lee

Lorna Morrison

Lorraine Jones
Lystra Sharp

Marcia Erskine
Marcia Forbes
Marcia Seapaul
Margaret Lecesne
Marguerite Jackson
Marguerite Newland
Marian Stewart
Marie Berbick Graham
Marie Williamson
Mario Romans
Marline Stephenson-Dalley
Maxine Francis
Maxine McDonnough
Meris Haughton
Michael Brooks
Misha Lobban
Monica Campbell McFarlane

Natalie Fearon
Neville Graham

Orville Green

P Mc Nish
Pamela White
Pat James
Patricia Gillings
Patricia Meikle
Patricia Tyrell
Patrick Jones
Patrick Ritchie-Haughton
Paula Anne Porter-Jones
Pauline Gray
Peter Samuels
Phillippa Hewan-Sherwood

Philmore Scott

Ransford Neil
Raymond B. Knight
Renae Mills
Rowena Palmer
Ruthlyn Johnson

Sandra Graham
Sandra Lindsay
Sandra Manderson
Sandra Morgan
Sharon Morgan
Sharon Shaw
Shawnette Henry
Sheleka Walker
Sonia Davidson
Stephen Shaw
Suzanne Francis-Brown
Suzette Rochester
Sydney Lowrie

T.K. Whyte
Tamara Williams
Tanya Lindo
Thaddeus Laidley
Tony Ray
Tracey Ann Menzies
Tracey Hamilton
Tyrell Morgan

Vinton Spencer

Wesley Sybblis
William H Wilcox
Winnifred Cross
Winsome Callum

Yvette Nunes
Yvonne Cross
Yvonne Grinam Nicholson
Yvonne J Graydon
Yvonne Johnson

Ministry Communicators Urged To Collaborate More

Ministry Communicators To Collaborate More

New Members Admitted to the PRSJ

The PRSJ is pleased to accept ten practitioners as members: nine Full and one Associate. In reviewing the applications, the Executive was impressed by the level of training and experience of the applicants and was satisfied to acknowledge their professional achievements. The new members will be inducted into the Society at the AGM on March 30 at JTI/Jampro on Trafalgar Road.
The new members are:

Full

• Shawnette Henry, The Management Institute for National Development (MIND)
• Heatha Miller, Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN)
• Cheryl Smith, Ministry of Finance and the Public Service
• Analisa Downes, Students Loan Bureau (SLB)
• Christopher Benjamin, event planner and lecturer, business writer, marketing and sponsorship consultant
• Meris Haughton, Tax Administration Department
• Tyrell Morgan, Urban Development Corporation (UDC)
• Rowena Palmer, Ministry of Health
• Stephen Shaw, National Works Agency (NWA)

 Associate

• Akilah Maxwell, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ)

The new members are entitled to list the Society membership on all statements of personal accomplishment.

PR Practitioners Must Be At Forefront of Change - Mornan Green

PRSJ Starts Anew: New Blood, New Trends, New Vision

By Akilah Maxwell, PRSJ

Kingston, Jamaica – March 4, 2010 - After a hiatus from the local communications industry, the Public Relations Society of Jamaica has resurged with a new vision and mandate to strengthen the public relations industry in Jamaica.

The Society will hold its Annual General Meeting on March 30 where a vibrant group of practitioners are expected to be elected into office. Their mandate will be to represent the interests of a growing community of professionals who handle commodity and social marketing, advertising, event planning, the business of sports and entertainment and corporate strategic decision making.

Country branding specialist, David Lightle, is the guest speaker for the event. Mr Lightle developed successful strategies for the Taiwanese manufacturing industry rebranding; the New Zealand expansion into Asian markets and more recently exposing Colombia’s merits as a creative crucible, investment friendly environment and engaging tourism destination.

At the Society’s general meeting on February 15, Past President, Janneth Mornan-Green, recalled the invaluable contribution that the Society made to business and government over the past 29 years and charged the members with the work to be done now.

“PR practitioners must be at the forefront of change, helping our clients to effectively reach greater numbers in further markets; confronting and outsmarting the competition and reshaping their business to meet the demands of a changing world.

“Today, corporate Jamaica is far more aware of public relations, its purpose and role…Jamaica too is far more aware of PR and its importance. I am sure you, like me, have heard the frequent calls for a public education campaign when anything goes wrong or seems to go wrong in the wider society.”

She also listed the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) and the former Jamaica Institute of Management (JIM) and the Institute of Management and Production (IMP, now University of the Caribbean) whose communications curricula were designed with great input from practicing professionals who also taught the courses.

PRSJ’s former role was to educate the Jamaican society about the impact and possibilities that lay in the Public Relations field. The benefits of this effort is visible today as every successful organization now makes communication a valuable component of its core functions.

Mrs Morman-Green used the last United States Presidential Elections to highlight the impact that non-traditional forms of communication have on a society. She has called all communicators to be innovators and trendsetters by understanding the changes that exists in the international market place.

The new goal for the PRSJ is that once again, it can harness the power of its collective membership to re-scope the communication practices and norms in the Jamaican society.

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CONTACT: PRSJ MODERATOR

prsj2009@gmail.com