Recently the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) held its annual economic conference in a virtual format under the theme ‘Crossing the Chasm: The Road to Economic Recovery’. There was a very clear effort by the organisers to build on the 134-page report of the COVID -19 Economic Recovery Task Force, itself subtitled ‘Rebuild Jamaica’. Many of the participants had been part of that Economic Recovery Task Force, chaired by Finance Minister Nigel Clarke.

On Thursday evening, as part of its smallbusinessportal.com podcast joint venture, the PSOJ COVIDCastJa Facebook livestream had two journalists, myself and Nationwide’s Kalilah Reynolds, review the conference with their media partner, adtelligent’s Nevada Powe, as moderator.

At the end of the review, PSOJ President Keith Duncan made a passionate, valuable attempt to summarise the event and the way forward.

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