Sean Nero

New­ly ap­point­ed CEO of Gulf In­sur­ance Lim­it­ed Ja­son Clarke says the suc­cess of the com­pa­ny was not built on de­ceiv­ing clients, but by ho­n­our­ing their le­git­i­mate claims."We need to do our part in purg­ing our sec­tor of those few who give it a bad name. In­sur­ance must not be a dirty word and we at Gulf will no longer al­low the few to tar­nish the many.

"We as an in­dus­try should self-reg­u­late and dri­ve reg­u­la­tions that are vi­tal to our in­dus­try rather than be dri­ven by reg­u­la­tions," he said in his ad­dress at the com­pa­ny's 40th an­niver­sary func­tion at the Kapok Ho­tel on Tues­day night."The home that is Gulf was built on a sol­id foun­da­tion that has stood the test of time. It was built on ho­n­our, high ethics and val­ues and, keen un­der­stand­ing of the im­por­tance of the in­sur­ance prod­ucts and ser­vices which we of­fer to the var­i­ous re­gion­al com­mu­ni­ties in which we op­er­ate," he said.

Clarke said the com­pa­ny is com­mit­ted to recog­nis­ing and re­spect­ing the needs of its cus­tomers while striv­ing to be­come the in­dus­try leader; not on be­ing the low­est to cost provider, but on the ful­fil­ment of the com­mit­ment made to the com­mu­ni­ties in which Gulf does busi­ness.Apart from T&T, Gulf In­sur­ance op­er­ates in St Maarten, the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States, the British Vir­gin Is­lands, Cay­man Is­lands and the Unit­ed States Vir­gin Is­lands (USVI).