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      e-Services Ltd investing US $2.6-million in St. Luciae-Services Group is now undertaking a US$2.6-million investment in St. Lucia, the first step the company's CEO Patrick Casserly says, towards creating a genuine Pan Caribbean information technology firm anchored from Jamaica. The operation is being set up at the site of a 20,000 square-foot former bottling plant in Castries - the capital city. The company is expected to begin opreating between July and August, gradually increasing its workforce to some 400 over the next three years. The move to St. Lucia was effected after Casserly examined alternative prospects in Guyana, Antigua, and Barbados, and ultimately decided that St. Lucia represented "the best match" based, he explained, on a range of factors including the workforce. "We looked to Guyana, Antigua, Barbados and St. Lucia, and looking at the St. Lucian people and staff, we believe it is the best match." Last year, e-Services grew its workforce by over a third to its present complement of 1,470. Of this, 1,260 are located at the Montego Bay Freezone area, and the other 210 between Kingston and Naggo Head in Portmore, St. Catherine.
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