is Managing Director of Western Publishers Limited and Founding Editor of the WESTERN MIRROR, Jamaica’s award-winning flagship community newspaper now in its 25th year. He is Past President and Past Director of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was twice elected Vice President of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ). Lloyd B. Smith is the recipient of numerous awards and citations in the areas of Journalism, Performing Arts and Community Development and is popularly known as ‘The Governor’ in the city of Montego Bay because of his fearless advocacy on behalf of Western Jamaica in general

and Montego Bay in particular.
Mr. Smith, a graduate of Cornwall College, Church Teachers’ College and Newhouse School of Communication, Syracuse University, New York is Honorary Director of the Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill (CUMI).