Graphic Designer of The Year

2000 Recipient

Patrick Waldemar - Creative Director, Waterworks Limited
One of the Caribbean’s leading watercolour artists, he has worked on murals, conceptualised and designed a number of award-winning booths and advertising campaign. But, Patrick Waldemar Creative Director, Waterworks Limited, is inclined to do better than the last time. His varied media in which he expresses his artistic work provided the platform for this gifted artist. Among his work for the year is the Cable and Wireless Digita and Lees Fifth Avenue campaign, which secured his Nomination for 2000.

Previous Recipients

DiMario McDowell
First Graphics - 1999

Sebastian Ogden - Managing Director
Quantum Communications - 1998

Best Radio Commercial of the Year

2000 Recipient

Digita Voicemail

Marketing Manager:Sandra Bodden
Ad Agency: Waterworks Ltd.
Creative Director: Patrick Waldemar
Art Director: Kevin Reittie
Account Executive: Kirk Waldemar/Patrick Waldemar

Previous Recipients

“The Music is a Zinga”
Red Label Wine

Dunlop Corbin Communications - 1999

Best Director TV Commercial

Previous Recipients

Brian St. Juste - With a father who was in film production, and a mother who was also in the broadcasting business, his gravitation towards the communications industry is understandable. Brian St. Juste’s life behind the lens began in earnest during his high school summer break, as Assistant cameraman at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS). There and then he knew that his career would be spent in production houses.

In 1978 he assumed the post of Managing Director at Apex Productions.Over the years, Brian has been director/producer of several outstanding productions, but among his work for 2000 he was nominated for his Directorial work of the Cable and Wireless ‘Digita” television commercials.

Public Relations Personality of the Year

2000 Recipient

Mrs. Berl Francis, Managing Director,
Berl Francis & Associates

As a PR and communications specialist with over 30 years experience, Mrs. Berl Francis has assisted in the communications programme for numerous private and public sector organizations in varied sectors: Finance, Manufacturing, Hospitality and Travel; Education Information Technology, among others.

It takes finely-honed skills in business communications to develop and implement communications audit systems, such as Mrs. Francis has instituted for the Bank of Jamaica and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Her outstanding work in the field has led to much recognition, not the least being invited to the membership of the International Association of Business Communicators’ (IABC) Blue Ribbon Panel of Judges, in 1997 and 1998, to assess the best of communications programme from around the world. Mrs. Francis was named to the IABC’s Executive Board in 2000.

Previous Recipients

Mrs. Berl Francis, Managing Director,
Berl Francis & Associates - 1999

Best Technical Artistic Acheivement of the Year

2000 Recipient

Mark Gentles - Mark Gentles entered the film business as a teenager when he did a summer stint with Phil Harvey, one of Jamaica's premier film producers at the time.

For the Year 2000, Gentles spent eight and a half months preparing and producing for video, a new Episode of the hilarious comedy Laugh Jamaica, starring Tony Hendricks.

But for public viewing on television, “Emancipate Your Senses”, the Lotto Double Play commercial was the peak of his commercial production for the year. It offered Lotto players an extra opportunity to win a new Beosound 9000 stereo system with Beolab speakers and to experience the new dimension of sound.

Another of his top commercials for the year was the second “Crime Stop”, a public service announcement featuring Tony Rebel’s Sweet Jamaica.