Courtesy Call : Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce (MIIC), Hon. Karl Samuda (left) listens attentively to a point being made by Priscilla Rivera (right), academic advisor, University of Miami (UM) during a courtesy call on May 28. Also in photo (left –right) are: Britanny Birnbaum (partially hidden), UM student; Itziar Diez-Canedo, UM student; Henry Holaday, UM graduate, Aubrey Swanson, UM student and Hon. Michael Stern, Minister of State, MIIC.
The students and their advisor were in Jamaica as part of the University of Miami/Student in Free Enterprise Jamaica Project (UM-SIFE) in collaboration with the Scotiabank chair in Entrepreneurship and Development at the University of Technology, the MSME Alliance and the Entrepreneurial Skill Development Unit (ESDU), HEART Trust/NTA.