The FCJ then

FACTORIES CORPORATION of Jamaica Limited was incorporated under the Companies Act of Jamaica in 1987. The company, which is fully owned by the Government of Jamaica, was formed to implement the Government’s Emergency Factory Building Programme.

Under this programme, approximately 92,903 square metres, or approximately one million square feet of factory space, was built.

In 1988, when the company began operation from the sixth floor of the Oceana Hotel in downtown, there was a staff complement of 23, to include two managers, two supervisors, a secretary, an office attendant, a maintenance officer and 16 security officers. Most of the staff complement were deployed to the Garmex Freezone where approximately 75 per cent of FCJ’s tenants were engaged in the garment industry. With the 1989 phasing out of the Jamaica Industrial Development Corporation (JIDC) a company which as part of its role was involved in the Government construction programme, it was decided that FCJ’s role should be expanded to include the management of the properties that were under the JIDC’s control. Following the downturn in garment manufacturing towards the end of the 1990s, a significant number of tenants began pursuing other manufacturing and commercial activities.

With the prospects that the information communication technology industry held, the organisation embarked on an expansion of space to serve the growing area of information technology.

CHAIRMEN AND MANAGING DIRECTORS

Over the 30 years, FCJ has had seven chairmen and 10 managing directors:

CHAIRMEN

Dr Vincent Lawrence: 1989-1996 Dianne Bell-Wright: 1996-2000 Hilma McNeil-Daniel (Actg): 2000-2001 Senator Noel Sloley: 2001-2007 Neil Seaton: 2007-2012 Clive Fagan: 2012-2016 Lyttleton Shirley: July 2016-present

MANAGING DIRECTORS

Eric Dean: 1989-1996 Cedric Taylor (Actg): 1996-1997 Glenroy Mellish: 1997-2004 Ambassador Stewart Stephenson: 2007-2009 Horace Sutherland: 2009-2012 Derrick Webb (Actg): 2012-2013 Desmond Sicard (Actg): June 2013-April 2014 Clive Greyson: May 2014-October 2015 Kenneth Rowe (Actg): October 2015-November 2016 Dr Donald Farquharson: Dec 2016-present