Date: 4/03/2007

Dr. George Phillip

Guardian Holdings Group CEO Rory O’Brien has expressed his regret on the passing of Company Director Dr. George Phillip on Saturday, March 31, at his home in Jamaica.

Dr. Phillip, a Director from inception of Guardian Life Limited, Jamaica, in 1999 and of Guardian Asset Management Jamaica Limited in 2002, joined the parent company board in 2003. He represented GHL's significant interests in the Jamaican market where he was an executive director of Sandals/ATL Group and the former chief executive officer of the Jamaica Observer. He was also a Director of West Indies Alliance Company Limited.

A well known Human Resources and Industrial Relations specialist, Dr. Phillip served as chairman of several panels of the Industrial Disputes Tribunals and various Ministry of Labour boards and commissions of enquiry on industrial relations disputes in the public and private sectors in Jamaica. In 2006 Dr. Phillip published, in association with Bentham Hussey, a revision and expansion of an earlier successful publication – ‘The A to Z of Industrial Relations in the Caribbean Workplace’. A launch of the book took place in Trinidad & Tobago at GHL Westmoorings.

Rory O’Brien noted that his “warm personality, genteel diplomacy and immense Caribbean experience will be sorely missed in the Jamaican and Trinidad & Tobago board rooms”. His funeral service will be held on Tuesday 10th April in Jamaica.