Panmedia Limited

Emerging markets like Jamaica need economic growth and development to generate jobs, enhance infrastructure, and give citizens a better quality of life. Access to capital and credit brings such opportunities through the affordable financing the Development Bank of Jamaica provides.

Now the DBJ gets a chance to highlight its work and promote its products and services online. The Bank has awarded Panmedia its new web site design and development.

We have moved into new and larger offices at 10 Argyle Road, just down the street from Jamaica Trade and Invest, and Red Bones Blues Café where we celebrated our move to New Kingston last week.

By the nature of what we do we see young people often on the up trajectory of their careers and aspirations. So we are accustomed to our brightest heading somewhere in the universe that will also nurture them. We are happy to have caught some of their genius and always wish them well.

So too we must with writer Nicole Smythe-Johnson, who brought her own style and energy to Panmedia although we didn’t have her company long. We share her joy in her acceptance to the London School of Economics for the 2008/2009 academic year.

This month Panmedia begins communications support to the Jamaica office of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. We are developing a strategy for the Institute to connect more directly with its stakeholders and give the public a better understanding of its role in Jamaica’s agriculture.

Since the 1970s, IICA has been working to make that industry here sustainable.

This month Panmedia launches a website for The Mill Press, a project that had its beginnings ten years ago. In 1998, we were so impressed with The Mill Press’ preservation of Jamaica’s historical heritage, that we designed a demo site for Executive Director Valerie Facey. She liked the idea, but believed then that The Mill Press was not yet ready to go online.

The new site features work The Mill Press has produced since it began 20 years ago, but its special focus is on the soon to be published Jackie Ranston’s Belisario – Sketches of Character – A Historical biography of a Jamaican Artist.

Starting this month Panmedia will provide affordable SSL Certificates as an Authorized Reseller of GeoTrust. We are offering three distinct options for clients to secure their web and mail servers.

• RapidSSL is a low cost certificate that is suitable for serving internal audiences (e.g. securing CMS logins or email servers). It is not recommended for public facing websites.


• GeoTrust QuickSSL is suitable for public facing sites with a low volume of traffic/transactions.


• GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium is recommended for high impact or high volume websites, particularly for e-commerce websites.

Jamaica’s white sand beaches and gorgeous countryside are what brings most visitors to the island. But our resort towns are not the only attraction for foreigners. Some people come to Jamaica to do business. The island is home to several call centres and other IT related foreign businesses.

And in the same way North Coast visitors want nice space, so, too, does business people. For the manufactures that want to set up shop here The Factories Corporation of Jamaica fills their need for proper infrastructure.

We often look for opportunities to explore new talent. One way we do that is to bring someone in for a few weeks to see what they’re made of.

So we invited Marlon Maulsby to join Panmedia for the Holiday Season. The web developer had already spent three days with us last month honing his skills for the WorldSkills International Competition in Shizuoka, Japan, recently. We liked his enthusiasm and enjoyed his industriousness.

The Private Sector of Jamaica asked Panmedia this month to repurpose its website for easier access to information and to offer more functionality to its members. After winning the tender, we met with a PSOJ team to begin our discovery process.

The organisation says its current site is inadequate to meet the modern-day demands of its members.  PSOJ’s old site lacked coherent information architecture, was less than attractive, and encouraged paper based processes.