Veteran customs broker offers to expand profile of customs brokers’ body as it turns 60
Members of the Customs Brokers And Freight Forwarders Association of Jamaica (CBFFAJ have re-elected veteran customs broker, Marcia Bent, to the helm of the professional and advocacy body for the vast majority of the over 200 licensed customs brokers operating in Jamaica.
The returned president said she intends to play a pivotal role in rallying the membership of the CBFFAJ to celebrate its 60th anniversary celebrations with a series of activities commencing in November this year.
“It is my goal that, in our 60th year, CBFFAJ will be profiled and understood as a professional body operating within the tenets of exercising a duty of care to its members, the customs brokering and logistics industry, and to the welfare and development of the nation”, said Bent to members gathering for their 59th annual general meeting at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, Kingston.
Among the key deliverables of the 60th anniversary observations is to improve the visibility of the services of customs brokers, especially for international clients and returning residents seeking bona fide, professional customs brokering services, with the production of a comprehensive Customs Brokers Catalogue.
“This brokers catalogue, in print and online formats, will profile CBFFAJ members as world-class professionals who are effectively dispensing their roles and obligations to facilitate vibrant cross-border trading in support of the Jamaican economy”, added Bent.
“This initiative will make it possible for anybody in the world requiring the services of a customs broker in Jamaica to be able to find that broker, get a clear understanding of that broker’s area of specialisation, and ultimately engage that broker in business,” she said.
The largely unchanged CBFFAJ Executive for the Administrative Year 2025-2026 is as follows:
. Marcia Bent – president
. Paulette Watt-McIntosh – vice-president
. Ann Brown-Chang – vice-president
. Susan Neil – vice-president
. Leon Smith – vice-president
. Jacquline Mason-Reid – honorary secretary
. Roxanne Williams – assistant honorary secretary
. Roger Stewart – honorary treasurer
. Javar Wilson – assistant honorary treasurer
Executive Members: Tesonia Green, Mark King, Ramon Binns, Colin Cunningham, Clive Reid, Steve Billings, Michael Brown, Trevor Powell.
Clive Coke remains as immediate past president