Damean Beckford in his office at the Jamaica Customs Agency in Kingston.
Managing the team that oversees the importation of all goods into Jamaica seems like an extremely daunting task, but 41-year-old Damean Beckford handles it seamlessly.
Beckford manages the entry processing unit at the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA). The unit processes all import declarations, including calculating the charges where necessary.
But before he was hired 17 years ago, Beckford was preparing to do a degree in production and operations management, having already achieved an associate degree. However, that area of study was not offered in Jamaica at the time and overseas studies were too expensive for the Portmore resident.