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Published:Thursday | March 12, 2020 | 12:00 AM
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Nicholas Nunes
Sheree Rhoden (left) makes a special delivery to Minna Israel. Israel, who is featured in the book, has the distinction of being the first woman to break through the proverbial glass ceiling in the local banking industry.
Nicholas Nunes
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange (right) landed on her page after she was presented with a copy of the book by The Gleaner Editor-in-Chief Kaymar Jordan.
Kenyon Hemans
Above: Chorvelle Johnson-Cunningham, chief executive officer, Sagicor Bank, accepts her copy of the book from The Gleaner’s senior researcher, Ahon Gray, at the Dominica Drive head office of Sagicor Bank.
Ian Allen
Mariame McIntosh Robinson, president and CEO, First Global Bank, beams as she looks at the portrait chosen for ‘Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up More Than Half the Sky’.
Nicholas Nunes
Gleaner Information Systems Manager Sheree Rhoden (left) presents Lisa Hanna with an early copy of ‘Jamaican Women of Distinction Book: Holding Up More Than Half the Sky’ at The Gleaner Company (Media) Limited’s office in Kingston. Hanna is one of the 60 distinguished women featured in the publication.
Nicholas Nunes
Dressed to impress and spread awareness of her compelling brand is Shanique Ellington, general manager of Teas Limited.
Nicholas Nunes
Clarendon native and founder of Women for Change, Britney Bowen, won this year’s Distinguished Award for Volunteerism.
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Women truly represent much of the world’s potential, just take a look at the amazing stories in Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up More Than Half the Sky , commissioned by the RJRGLEANER Communications Group, in association with the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, and The Jamaica National Group Limited. The book was officially launched on March 8, International Women’s Day. Since then, we’ve been making the rounds, hand-delivering copies of the book to the amazing women featured in the publication. Here are the highlights.