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The Montego Bay entrepreneur, heir to the former Barnett Estates sugar plantation, who diversified the family business into non-traditional export crops and real estate development, said his Barnett Limited will be forking out $180 million to develop infrastructure for the new offshore business park and has signed up his first client, a company now operating in the Port Authority of Jamaica-managed Montego Free Zone. The firm is expected to buy 11 acres in the development and has a right of first refusal of an additional 7.5 acres.
"This shows confidence in Jamaica and a shared vision in the Barnett Tech Park and expanding the ICT industry in Montego Bay which is the favoured location," the businessman argued."We have been advised that a start-up centre is desperately needed where foreign companies can come into the start-up centre, which will have up to 50 fully functional (call centre agents), and test their services in the Jamaican environment," [Mark KerrJarrett] told The Weekly Gleaner in explaining the idea behind his latest venture. "If they are satisfied with the results they then will have the opportunity to invest in larger spaces and set up their own operations."See the full content of this document
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$356m Investment for New Call-Centre Park
THE GOVERNMENTOWNED Montego Bay free zone is withstanding the global recession, and the offshore call centre service-oriented business park has run out of available space, spurrin...
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