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How To ExfoiliateYour Skin

In Full BloomA Peek Inside the East Mountain Pride

Avenue block garden in Long Mountain

Many women have spent their entire careers trying to break

into the “old boys’ club” of top level management. Through

hard work and a laser-sharp focus, Kristine Bolt is on the fast

track to the corner office. We also take you inside the Long

Mountain Country Club with a peek into the East Mountain

Pride Avenue block garden project, plus more in this week’s

Your Style.

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Editor’s Note

Quote of The Week “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to

tell people you are, you aren’t.”

- Margaret Thatcher

JUNE 27, 2011

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Kristine BoltOn the Sagicor Fast Track

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In FullBloomA PEEK INSIDE THE EAST

MOUNTAIN PRIDE AVENUE

BLOCK GARDEN IN LONGMOUNTAIN

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home & garden

everal residents of East Mountain Pride Avenue in the Long

Mountain community shared the sentiment that a lush garden

would add to the aesthetic appeal – and value – of their homes, and

they came together to create their own oasis.

The garden is in bloom all year round, with different plants showing

their colours at various times. These vibrant blooms include: tiny white

roses; red, pink and yellow hibiscuses as big as tea saucers; fragrant

white gardenia and frangipani; red and orange Cuban cigars and canna

lillies; flamboyant birds of paradise and heliconias; over 70 varieties

of orchids, including the hybrid cattletonia; a few ‘special plants’ that

has not yet been identified and red and yellow Pride of Barbados, that

country’s national flower and an homage to the garden’s pioneer, Jeff

Sealy’s, roots.

The East Mountain Pride Avenue block garden is also a sanctuary for

a host of butterflies and birds and a safe haven for bees to pollinate.

The variegated hummingbirds, sunny gold canaries and a family of par-

rots feast on the natural bounty provided by the flowers and various

fruit trees such as mango, guava, cherry, sweet sop, otaheitie apple and

passion fruit.

S Jeff Sealy (right) with his partner Alicia Lyle (left)

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Kristine Bolt ON THE SAGICORFAST TRACK

lthough no relation to Mr. “Lighting Bolt” himself,

Kristine Bolt has indeed blazed a trail of her own on

the business and finance track. With both a BSc. in Actuarial

Science from the University of the West Indies, Mona and an

MSc. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from

the University of California, Berkeley, she has separated her-

self from her peers by defining and focusing on her own stan-

dards. Kristine is not deterred by the fact that the top execu-

tive positions are male-dominated and refuses to be confined.She continues to impress her colleagues with her hard work

and is truly an example for young girls to emulate.

Kristine began her career at the former Life of Jamaica (LOJ)

in 1998 and left in 2001 to pursue her Master’s degree. Upon

returning to Jamaica, she worked with the National Com-

mercial Bank Capital Markets before moving on to Advantage

General which, at the time, had just been acquired by Michael

Lee Chin. Even though there have been periods of challenge,

especially as it related to her career advancement, Kristine

never lost sight of her goals. “You tend to find that when

you are young woman moving up because of your hard work,

people are suspicious and that was probably the hardest thing

to get used to,” she said. “I tend to be fairly pragmatic and I

realize that you can only control how you behave and how

you think. I can’t control what other people are thinking, so

if they think things about how I got to be where I am, then

that’s their business.”

Kristine credits her determined work ethic and discipline to

her parents’ example. “I have a teacher and pastor for par-

ents, and my parents were very dedicated to school work,

though not to the exclusion of everything else,” explained the

Immaculate Conception High School alum. She believes that

kind of framework has helped tremendously in shaping her

character.

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“I tend to be fairly prag-matic and I realize thatyou can only control how

you behave and how youthink. I can’t controlwhat other people arethinking, so if they thinkthings about how I gotto be where I am, thenthat’s their business.”

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Since her return to Sagicor Life Jamaica in January of 2009,

Kristine has moved up the ranks to the position of Vice Presi-dent in charge of Productivity and Customer Experience. She

now works across all divisions of the company to help stream-

line various processes in order to improve operational effi-

ciency and ensure that the company delivers better service to

its customers.

Currently, Kristine’s main focus is the quality of the customer

service experience that Sagicor delivers through its Contact

Centre and other areas. She considers herself very fortunate

to have a boss who is very focused on what the company

wants to achieve and how to get there, which eliminates the

possibility of falling off-track.

Growing up, Kristine never really dreamed of wanting to run

a company or being an executive. “I just wanted to have a job

that I really like and really enjoy doing and I just ended up on a

path that took me to an executive position,” she said.

WHO DO YOU ADMIRE IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL

LIFE?

My boss Richard Byles, who is a very incisive leader. I have

learnt a lot from him and Myrnelle Akan, who works with AIC

Financial Group. She has been an inspiration in my working life

about how a woman can lead without acting like a man and

without feeling threatened by a man.

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO FEMALES

TRYING TO BREAK THE GLASS CEILING IN COR-

PORATE JAMAICAN?

When you look in the work force in general, it consists mostly

of women, so that in itself tell us that the leaders of our cor-

porations for tomorrow will be women. It is important for

young women to just work hard and not focus too much on

what other people are saying or doing.

WHERE WILL KRISTINE LEAVE HER MARK IN

THE YEARS TO COME?I’m interested in our young girls of today, particularly teenag-

ers. From my interactions with them, I realize that they place

little to no social value on themselves. In the future, I definitely

hope to work with them in developing their self worth.

HOW DO YOU RELAX?

Read a lot, my favourite authors change based on my topic.

read for business especially a lot of research papers, as well as

stuff for personal growth.

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