Photo by Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Allison Rattray (right) presents outgoing director of FirstCaribbean International Bank, Chris Bovell, with a gift at his farewell function. Looking on is his wife, Michelle.

FirstCaribbean's Managing Director, Clovis Metcalfe (right), and Marlene Williams (second right), corporate manager, welcome Laurie Broderick and companion, Sandy Gregory, to the farewell.

FirstCaribbean (Jamaica) boss Clovis Metcalfe (left) 'holds a reason' with former director of the bank, Chris Bovell.

Former big boss at FirstCaribbean, Milton Brady (left, now at LIME), hobnobs with the bank's CFO, Lancelot Leslie, and Michelle Campbell, head of technical support.

Noted attorney Chris Bovell can now put up his feet ... at least with regard to FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB).

The team at FCIB hosted a quaint send-off for the former director on Thursday, December 17 at The Jamaica Pegasus, newest 'suite', the Coconut Gardens (on the lawns adjacent to the main parking lot's entrance).

Executive chairman of FCIB, Michael Mansoor, said the group had benefited tremendously from Bovell's services and that he had served the region well. He called Bovell one of the "finest legal minds in the region", and lauded his work in the transition from CIBC to the current entity, after a merger with Barclays Bank.

But he also paid tribute to Bovell the man, saying he was a soft-spoken, affable, sincere and patient director who always brought a degree of wisdom to all areas.

Bovell, who admitted to feeling under the weather, didn't speak long, but hit the spot. He joked about whether Mansoor was telling the truth with all his glowing plaudits, but then expressed appreciation for the occasion. He thanked the FirstCaribbean family and said he had learned much from them. He said that he had stories and jokes aplenty to tell but didn't want to keep them there all night. Don't think they would have minded.

Guests out included Clovis and Hermine Metcalfe, Gerald Wight, Ella Hoyos, Richard Stewart and children Duncan and Jackie, Jean Lowrie-Chin, Maurice and Valerie Facey, G. Richard Fontaine, Alva Anderson, Robert Wright and Christopher Denny.