The Peer Awards Foundation staged the 2006 Awards Presentation Banquet of The Caribbean Peer Awards, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on Thursday, September 7, 2006. This marked the first time that the awards recognised figures and companies beyond Jamaica.
Billed as a red carpet and black-tie affair, the event had as main speaker recently appointed chairman of CVM Television and Superplus Food Stores Limited, Wayne Chen.
Lifetime Achievement Awards was presented to Lester Spaulding, chairman and managing director for the RJR Group and Ken Gordon, president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Peter Webley, publisher of the regional newspaper Caribbean Today; and Neville Blythe, former chairman of CVM Communications Group and chairman of the UGI Group of Companies.
Lester Spaulding has overseen the expansion of Radio Jamaica from a single station to an integrated communications group encompassing radio television and Internet entities.
Peter Webley's Caribbean Today has for over 17 years been covering Jamaican and Caribbean interests in the US, particularly in South Florida.
Neville Blythe fashioned an integrated communications group, the CVM Communications Group, out of seemingly disparate properties: CVM Television, Hot 102FM; the X-News and Teen Herald. Blythe last year sold a majority stake in his media interests to Michael Lee-Chin, retaining holdings in finance, insurance and tourism.
Gordon has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in business, during which time he was chairman of a major Caribbean conglomerate, Neal and Massy Holdings, and had considerable interests in the media, serving as managing director of the Trinidad Express and CEO and chairman of Caribbean Communications Network (CCN). He has also had a significant role in the establishment of the Jamaica Observer as well as a number of regional media houses, including in Guyana and Barbados. Gordon also served as a senator in the parliament and as a government minister in Trinidad & Tobago.
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