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march 2012 Joan Webley: The journey is the destination p.15
Kingston Kitchen shares the love p. 3 New York Fashion Week 2012 p5 One piece, two looks p.6 Beauty must-haves p7
It’s time for women to take the helm p.8 Respect women now, tomorrow, always p.10
Editor's Note New York Fashion Week has come and gone, setting the trends we’ll all be following for the rest of the year. There were definitely some common notes across the various designer collections this season, and we’ve rounded up some of the standouts. March is also an important month for women as we mark both Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8). Your Style celebrates by looking at how our local women have fared in the competitive, male-dominated business environment. Our cover story featuring Joan Webley is a great example of a determined young woman who was not afraid to take risks and is now able to enjoy the successes, living by the motto ‘the journey is the destination’.
Five notable women in business p.11 Yoga Angels workshop p.19
On The Pulse: News and Culture p.20 Olga’s Daughter by Marie Campbell p.21
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Kingston Kitchen shares the love O n February 12, Hope Gardens was home to the second staging of Kingston Kitchen, with many patrons out in their numbers to take advantage of the more than 40 vendors who showcased the best of what they had to offer. Not even the rain could stop the foodies from having a good time as they continued their culinary quests in the downpour. The event seemed to have been enjoyed by all in attendance and the Kitchenettes stayed true to their mantra to ‘Eat Good.’
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Fashion
Highlights from New York Fashion Week 2012 ew York Fashion Week recently N wrapped its fall 2012 presentations
Prints
and it gave us a peek at what trends will be in store when the designs hit the market later this year.
White
Zac Posen
Mara Hoffman Monique Lhuillier
Derek Lam
Behnaz Sarafpour
Military
Erin Fetherston
Suno Jason Wu Tommy Hilfiger
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career
Contributed by Meisha-Gay Mattis
It’s time for women to take the helm T
his month, we celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, and although women have been breaking the glass ceiling even before the burning of the bra, it is surprising that only a few make it to the top of their organisations, let alone as far as the boardroom. Last July, Christine Lagarde became the first woman appointed as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While we jumped for joy, our balloon was quickly burst after realising that in the US, only 12 Fortune 500 companies are run by women, down from 15 last year. The numbers are just as dismal here on local soil. Of the companies listed on the Jamaican Stock Exchange (JSE), only one is headed by a female - Fayval Williams of Kingston Properties Ltd. Some may contend that this has been the line of argument for years and there are others who will say that women have settled; we want the home and the family, so we are not as dedicated to business pursuits. While this may be true for some women, men want these same things, too, yet they don’t face the same obstacles or criticism on their way up the corporate ladder. Are we asking too much of ourselves to try to balance home and career responsibilities and make it to the top of our companies? By now, we all know the statistics that women outnumber men
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in higher education institutions by a ratio of 7:4. Yes, women still have to contend with the ‘old boys’ network’ and its perks in many situations, but obstacles like these should not stop us from having it all. And there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel as the President of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ), Joseph Matalon recently acknowledged the disparity and encouraged publicly listed companies to be bold and not shy away from appointing women as members of their board of director. One company that has embraced this movement is eMedia Interactive Ltd. The new media company, publishers of this eZine, has appointed not one but four women to its sixmember board. Though not a publicly listed company, eMedia Interactive’s move is definitely forward thinking. Countries across Europe have been adopting quotas to put women in directors’ seats. For instance, Norway has already reached it’s 40 per cent mandate since signing on in 2002, while Spain and France have set similar goals for the next three and four years, respectively. Let us keep our fingers crossed and support Jamaican women as they pursue their career goals to the boardroom of major local companies. We have to keep a constant watch on the situation so we will have better statistics to report by the next International Women’s Day. Your Style eZine
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International Women's Day
By Keresa Arnold
respect women now, tomorrow, always a
s we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, it is important to drive home the importance of creating an environment that encourages and ensures respect for females everywhere. Ladies, we need to demand respect from our spouses, associates, friends, family and strangers. You should never sit silently while anyone verbally or physically disrespect you, or promote unflattering stereotypes about your gender. You have to set the standard by which those around you will be held. How can you expect others to respect you if you don’t even appear to respect yourself?
even the song lyrics. It highlights a longstanding perception and treatment of women that must not be allowed to continue. It is very clear but unfortunate, that I live in a country with some men (and women), who believe that rape ‘isn’t all that bad’, people who believe that it is the lesser of two evils. But understand this: It is absolutely, indisputably, indefensibly unacceptable for a man to force himself into/onto a woman. That’s disgusting and as females, we should never become so desensitised that we also play down this unforgivable violation of a woman’s body.
A few weeks ago, there was a heated debate about a popular song, in which the artiste made mention of the fact that he would rather rape than be seen as homosexual. What disturbed me the most was not so much that he thought it acceptable to write those lyrics (I have very low expectations of many dancehall artistes), but the passionate defense by some individuals.
For years men have treated women as objects to be used for sexual favours and for slaving around the house, with no consideration for the woman on the inside who is crying out to be seen and to be accepted for more than just a body. It’s time that we speak out against these stereotypes. How dare you tell me that I’m overreacting because I take offense to men saying that compared to other things, rape isn’t all that bad? What? Un-accep-table.
“The artiste was comparing two things, rape which he infers is bad and homosexuality which he finds even more repugnant than rape so much so that he would prefer to be classified as a rapist than as a homosexual,” one person said. In other words, the artiste isn’t saying that he wants to rape, he is just saying that homosexuality is so repulsive that if forced, he would choose rape? Huh? Let’s dump 500 truckloads of sand on that argument. How does that even make sense?
Who are you to tell that to young girls and women who have been raped, beaten and abused by individuals, who like you, also clearly believe that rape isn’t all that bad? How dare you? I’m not even what you would call a feminist, I’m simply a female with enough respect for myself to know that there are certain arguments that I should never accept.
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International Women's Day
FIVE NOTABLE WOMEN
in business
There’s no question about it – women have made an invaluable contribution to the development of Jamaica’s economy, both in the public and private sectors. Some are bold entrepreneurs and others have risen through the ranks to lead major organisations. As we celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this month, Your Style commends five women who are at the top of their game in the business world.
Sandra Glasgow
Sancia BennettTempler
President, Jamaica Trade and Invest (JAMPRO)
This quiet powerhouse is credited for steering JAMPRO in a more focused direction during her tenure, first as deputy president in mid2006, then as acting president between June 2006 and February 2007. She was appointed president of JAMPRO in August 2009. Outside of JAMPRO, Bennett-Templer has served as chief technical director for the restructured Planning & Development Unit within the Office of the Prime Minister and also serves as CEO of the National Planning Summit, a public-private sector development partnership. Before JAMPRO, Bennett-Templer was a senior vice president at the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and previously, the managing director of International Shipping Limited. A graduate of the UWI and Plymouth Polytechnic in England, she holds a BSc in Management Studies, an MSc in International Shipping and an Executive MBA. www.ezineslimited.com
Think of a major local business organisation and it is likely Sandra Glasgow is or has been on the board of directors. This accomplished leader sits on boards including the National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited, the National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica (Ex-IM), the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), the GraceKennedy Foundation and the Jamaica Productivity Centre, among others. Glasgow, a former teacher at her alma mater St Hugh’s High School, was Jamaica’s Eisenhower Fellow in 2000. She is also recognised and certified by several international business organisations, including the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance (CACG), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Inter-American Investment Corporation and the US Department of Commerce. A staunch advocate for small business development, Glasgow was instrumental in the establishment of an Entrepreneurial Centre in 1987, which later became the Technology Innovation Centre located at the University of Technology. Glasgow holds a BSc in Applied Zoology and Applied Botany and an MBA from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona. Your Style eZine
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audrey Tugwell-henry Bank (NCB)
One of NCB’s front women, Tugwell Henry began her banking career as a teller at Mutual Security Bank after ending her teaching career at the former Herbert Morrison Comprehensive High. Throughout her 20-year career, Tugwell Henry has made her mark at Citizen’s Bank, Citibank and Scotiabank before joining NCB in 2008. As the senior general manager in charge of retail banking, she is responsible for the bank’s 47 outlets, developing and implementing initiatives that have allowed NCB to cop the Best Banking Group, Jamaica and Most Innovative Bank, Jamaica at the World Finance Awards in 2010. Tugwell Henry, an MBA graduate of the UWI, also believes in giving back, and has taught at the Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning and served in a UWI mentorship programme. She also serves on the boards of NCB Remittance Services (UK) Ltd, NCB Insurance Company Ltd and JETS Ltd.
Grace Silvera
Regional vice-president for marketing and communications, LIME
With over 20 years experience in a range of fields including international marketing, communications, brand management, public relations, events marketing, customer service and public sector leadership, Grace Silvera is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished women in Jamaican business circles. Silvera began her career as a journalist before moving into public relations. She spent a decade at Air Jamaica before going on to redefine the Red Stripe brand, first as a communications and marketing expert and within five years, as director of communications – the only female director in the company. At the height of her success, she was seconded to the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission as Executive Director in 2010, mandated to transform the JCDC’s image and programmes. After completing her stint, Silvera joined LIME in early 2011, assuming responsibility for marketing and communications across the company’s 13 markets. Silvera, a graduate of Nova Southeastern University and Harvard Business School, also serves as a director of the board of RISE Life Management Services, for www.ezineslimited.com
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audrey hinchcliffe
Founder, Caribbean Health Management Consultants and CEO,
Few people in business can boast as diverse a resume as Audrey Hinchcliffe. She began her career in nursing in the 1960s before migrating to New York in 1967, where she founded Nurses Own Education Centre, a training school in Brooklyn. She eventually joined the staff of the faculty hospital at the University of Florida in 1978. In 1982, Hinchcliffe returned to the Caribbean as the health development officer for CARICOM and came back to Jamaica in 1987. She established Caribbean Health Management Consultants Ltd and started Manpower and Maintenance Services in 1990. Despite battling several illnesses, Hinchcliffe has also served as director or chairman on several boards, including GraceKennedy Ltd, HiLo Food Stores, the Nursing Council of Jamaica and was also three-term president of the Jamaica Employers Federation. Last year, Hinchcliffe was invited by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to join the Department of State’s new International Council on Women’s Business Leadership (ICWBL) for a twoyear term.
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cover Story
Joan Webley
The journey is the destination By Tracey-Ann Wisdom Photographs by Warren Buckle
probably impossible to come I tupis with just one word to accu-
rately describe Joan Webley; it would likely burst at the seams. So we’ll go with two – perpetual motion. The attractive 29-year-old attorney and entrepreneur is always going somewhere or doing something, perhaps an attribute of her upbringing, which saw her moving from Jamaica to Grenada to Canada to Trinidad and Tobago to Australia and then back to Jamaica as a young adult.
“I think I’ve been all around the place, but the important thing for me is that I’ve always felt like Jamaica is home,” she said. “I’m just someone who is a real product of experiences. I suppose if you were to sum it up, the thing that I live my life by, or that I think is most true in my life, is that the journey is really the destination.”
“During that time, I was able to figure out what I wanted to do, which was to help Jamaicans make a living from our creativity”
While Webley has always been on the move, the former Yardie in Exile has by no means been adrift. She has used the skills developed from often being the new girl – a knack for reading people and assessing situations and unwavering determination, to carve her own path and create a unique career, first in Australia, where she lived for six years, and now back home in Jamaica. Her entertainment management company, Nanook Enterprises , is set to redefine how local cultural and entertainment products are created and marketed. However, things weren’t always so clear. After finishing high school in Grenada, where she moved at 14 when her mother worked for that country’s Prime Minister, Webley decided to www.ezineslimited.com
forego sixth form and moved to Toronto to complete year 13 in order to attend a Canadian university. She was accepted into the University of Toronto to study international relations, but this held no appeal. “I knew that I was always going to go on to school, but I really wanted to figure out why,” she explained.
Still searching, Webley returned to the Caribbean, this time to Trinidad, where her mother had settled. Recognising that many other students faced the same dilemma, she started her first business, offering college prep, scholarship and career guidance courses. “During that time, I was able to figure out what I wanted to do, which was to help Jamaicans make a living from our creativity,” Webley said. “Here it was that I had lived now in three countries and in all of those countries, Jamaican culture was so present and so popular and loved and commercialised by other people than us.” Your Style eZine 16
“First of all, I knew nothing. Crocodile Dundee, The Shrimp on the Barbie and Outback Steakhouse was pretty much the extent of my knowledge of Australia.” with people in the business and more overseas people. I started to be able to carry acts on tour and understand the whole logistics of it, understand how royalty collections work and those kinds of things,” she said. Fate would again step in to catapult Webley to the next level of her career. One night, the man she babysat for informed her that his friend, an entertainment lawyer, wanted to meet with her. It turned out that this friend was Bryce Menzies, who Webley described as a ‘legend’ in Australian entertainment law. He employed her as a junior secretary, but after a month, offered her an apprenticeship.
As fate would have it, Webley would visit Grenada, where her former principal and her husband, sports psychologist Rudy Webster, encouraged her to study in Australia, where the couple had once lived. “I smiled and nodded politely. As if I would be going to Australia!” she laughed. Webster showed her an academic guide, where Victoria University was offering the course of her dreams – “A Bachelor of business, music industry focused, combined with an LLB and you could do the whole programme in five years. Things just fell into place. From the time he told me that, I was in Australia with a full academic scholarship within seven months.” Webley, fiercely independent, made the long journey to Australia solo. “It was an eye-opening experience. First of all, I knew nothing. Crocodile Dundee, The Shrimp on the Barbie and Outback Steakhouse was pretty much the extent of my knowledge of Australia. So when I got there, you can imagine my surprise when I landed and it was hailing. I was like, what is this place?” she recalled. Webley soon found her footing, working in a local bar and later on, doing volunteer stage management, artiste support and publicity. After a year, she got a fulltime job as a junior publicist and later at a management company. “I got to start interacting www.ezineslimited.com
During that year, Webley added film law to her résumé, working on films such as Disgrace, Daybreakers and Mao’s Last Dancer, plus both the book and documentary for The Secret. Webley was admitted to the Australian Supreme Court for six months when she made the decision to return home, where she had to start all over again. “Going back to ‘the journey is the destination’, I really do think you need to, for lack of a better word, pay dues in an industry. You need to understand it before you try to really do something in it,” she said. “Sometimes I feel like I have to start all over again with a handicap.” The handicap is that she happens to share a similar name to politician, Joan Gordon-Webley. “Even though I hadn’t lived here for 12 years, everyone thought that they knew who I was because my name is Joan Webley,” she said. “Sometimes it opens a door and other times, I know that I’m getting fried in somebody else’s oil.” Name confusion aside, since returning from Australia in 2009, Webley has ‘paid her dues’, working on the board of the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JARIA) for two-and-a-half years. “I thought Jamaica needed an umbrella organisation to really speak on behalf of the industry. I think it’s a crying shame how little has been done to really commercialise that industry,” she said. “I was able to really start to do something to address what’s wrong, because I get very frustrated.” Your Style eZine 17
“I learned that as passionate as you are and as important as it is, it’s also not that serious. You have to retain perspective.” Webley, who also works with the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), is now gearing up to relaunch Nanook the entertainment management company she impulsively started upon her return to Jamaica. “We started out with something as lofty as ‘innovative entertainment, business and legal solutions’, but now where we’re at is to help people make a living from creativity, so it’s gotten a bit more real, a bit more tangible,” she said. Described as “equal parts platform and showcase”, Nanook is focused on developing music, film, fashion and sports. “I firmly believe the Caribbean, Jamaica, is not the market for what we www.ezineslimited.com
do. We are the factory, where the talent comes from, where the product is developed, refined and then properly and sustainably shipped out to the world,” Webley stated. The initiative becomes fully operational in April and the month of March will be spent working out the kinks with a few trial events. With such a busy schedule and her inability to be idle, Webley finds it hard to relax, but she has been making it a priority lately. “I learned that as passionate as you are and as important as it is, it’s also not that serious. You have to retain perspective,” she explained. This includes taking time to connect with friends – she is on bridesmaid duty three times this year, spends time with her mother and, when she starts to feel the itch, travels – often back to Australia. Webley described herself as being “cautiously optimistic” about the future of Jamaica’s entertainment industry and she is glad she is not alone in seeing its potential. “I can’t do it alone and I’m seeing more and more intelligent and serious businesspeople and creative people really making a move and trying to do things differently. I think it’s a really, really positive thing.” Your Style eZine 18
health & Fitness
by Tracey-Ann Wisdom
A look into the
Yoga angels Workshop
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n February 11, Yoga Angels kicked off their three-day workshop hosted by AcroYoga co-founder Jason Nemer.
AcroYoga is a variation of traditional yoga that incorporates Thai massage and acrobatics. The aim of this practice is to cultivate trust, connection and playfulness (http://www.acroyoga.org/about.cfm). Nemer, a California native was in Jamaica for the Caribbean Yoga Conference, which took place at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort in Montego Bay. He decided to extend his trip to see more of Jamaica and that involved travelling to Kingston to share his expertise. When Your Style eZine studio was full and the session well underway.
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News & culture
by Keresa Arnold
On the pulse
50 WOMEN TO BE HONOURED ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Every year, March 8 is celebrated as International Women’s Day and it recognises the contributions of women to nation building. On Thursday, the Bureau of Women’s Affairs will honour 50 outstanding Jamaican women for their contributions to national development. The nominees include women from all sectors, both in Jamaica and the Diaspora.This ic and Political Empowerment’. CARIBBEAN IS BEST PLACE TO BE A FEMALE JOURNALIST In the Caribbean, 45 per cent of TV, radio and print stories are reported by women, according to a study by the World Economic Forum. This makes it the region with the highest percentage of lead female journalists, compared to males. Meantime, as it relates to economic participation and opportunity for women, the Bahamas holds the top spot globally, closing it’s gender gap by 91 per cent in the last six years. www.ezineslimited.com
AT THE MOVIES: THE VOW If you’re feeling a bit on the romantic side this week, then you might ams, it highlights the story of a woman who goes into a coma after a car accident and forgets everything, including her husband. He must now work to win her heart again. WHERE TO GO: SOCACISE AT BACCHANAL its socacise event, which is a combination of soca and exercise. It will run for six weeks and takes place every Monday and Wednesday. It is free to the public. For more information visit bacchanaljamaica.com. Your Style eZine
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Books
By Tracey-Ann Wisdom
Olga’s Daughter
By Marie Campbell
Marie Campbell, born in London to a Jamaican single mother, grew up with an identity crisis. Who was her father and why did her mother, Carmen Browne (born Olga Browney), refuse to talk about him? Campbell shares the remarkable story of how she discovered love. Why did you decide to write Olga – A Daughter’s Tale? Until I was in my early 50s, I had very little knowledge of my mother’s family in Jamaica. Then in 1994, she was admitted to slowly recovered, I realised that had she died, so too would the and, of great importance to me, who my father was, information Marie Campbell
What did you learn about your mother that most resonated with you? I learned that in the face of great adversity, Mum had huge moral courage, strength of character and deep religious conviction. which I marvel at, particularly when she made a life-changing decision that few others (including myself) would have made, given the circumstances she was in. Were you shocked or disheartened by anything you discovered? My mother had always refused to talk about or name my father. In the end, I stopped asking. His name doesn’t appear on my he’d done to Mum, I was devastated and angry. The other thing that upset me was the racist reaction some of Mum’s siblings demonstrated to their mother, my grandmother was an incredibly courageous thing to do at that time. They were unhappy about being the offspring of a mixed marriage. But my research on the culture and class system that operated in Jamaica around that period made it easier to understand why they might have behaved that way. www.ezineslimited.com
How has discovering your roots helped you? The cliché that, “you don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been” held such resonance for me. Because I knew nothing of my heritage I spent my teens and early-20s in a very dysfunctional state and wasted what should have been productive years. I calmed down a lot when I married and had children, but it wasn’t until I was in my 50s and learned about my heritage, my father and met some of my mother’s family, that
What challenges did you face writing the book? It was after I’d found my mother’s family and met with them in Jamaica that I decided I would write my book. But Mum was very opposed to it for reason I now understand, but I still felt strongly that her family and future generations should know
story. But once I found it, I wrote the book in about six months. Olga – A Daughter’s Tale is available as a download or paperback on Amazon and lulu.com/mariecampbell. Your Style eZine
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