Message from Camille Facey

Attorney-at-law; Chair (Interim), PSOJ Corporate Governance Committee

Today in Jamaica, there are regulations before parliament which when passed will ensure that appointments to public boards are based primarily on competency; that the membership of boards must be comprised of at least 30% females and 30% males and that when administrations change at least one-third of the board must be retained so as to ensure continuity in public affairs and that all institutional knowledge is not lost from the board … and so much more.

When we attend international conferences and speak about the strides in governance that Jamaica has made, Jamaica stands tall and we owe so much of our progress to the grit and determination of our Corporate Governance guru, Greta.

She saw the possibilities of what good governance could bring to both public and private sector and was relentless in hunting down best practices, educating herself and then educating others, delivering corporate governance training to so many companies both public and private, including MSMES.

She chaired the PSOJ Corporate Governance Committee; she was integral to the development of the Corporate Governance Index which is serving to measure and improve governance in the private sector; she conceptualized and was the heart and soul of the Public Sector corporate governance awards; she was one of the judges for the private sector Corporate Governance awards;

She represented the PSOJ on the government’s corporate governance policy committee; she was the lead presenter at the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s E-campus’ Directors’ Strategic Leadership post graduate diploma course; she along with her colleagues were in the process of updating Jamaica’s Corporate Governance code; she had just agreed to sit as a director on the board of the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute and we could go on and on.

Once it was corporate governance, she was going to play her part in whatever venture it was, and she ran herself ragged in doing so.

This giant of a woman was a national treasure and hers is a legacy that will live well beyond her and will continue to ensure to the benefit of Jamaica for a very long time to come.