NCB Fi­nan­cial Group Ltd (NCBFG) yes­ter­day an­nounced that it was ex­pand­ing its board of di­rec­tors with the ap­point­ment of T&T na­tion­al, Do­minic Ram­per­sad, ef­fec­tive De­cem­ber 4.

Ram­per­sad, a fi­nance and op­er­a­tions ex­ec­u­tive with more than three decades of re­gion­al in­dus­try ex­pe­ri­ence, most re­cent­ly served as pres­i­dent of Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd, a post he held for over ten years be­fore re­tir­ing last month.

He al­so sits on the board of Guardian Hold­ings Ltd and sev­er­al of its sub­sidiaries.
Last month, Ram­per­sad, who was the pres­i­dent of Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd, was asked to pro­ceed on pre-re­tire­ment leave de­spite not in­tend­ing to leave the com­pa­ny.
An in­ter­nal memo is­sued to staff stat­ed that Ram­per­sad had tak­en ear­ly re­tire­ment, ef­fec­tive No­vem­ber 21, 2025.

The memo, signed by Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) chair­man, Ger­ald Ramdeen, out­lined that Col­in Rame­sar will as­sume the role of act­ing pres­i­dent un­til fur­ther no­tice. Ram­per­sad has over 25 years ex­pe­ri­ence in the en­er­gy sec­tor.

NCBFG, on its web­site, said Ram­per­sad’s ap­point­ment brings ad­di­tion­al strate­gic depth to the group, which is Ja­maica’s largest and most prof­itable fi­nan­cial ser­vices con­glom­er­ate. His back­ground spans cor­po­rate gov­er­nance, fi­nan­cial man­age­ment, and or­gan­i­sa­tion­al lead­er­ship across mul­ti­ple sec­tors in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean.

Ram­per­sad is a mem­ber of both the As­so­ci­a­tion of Char­tered Cer­ti­fied Ac­coun­tants (AC­CA) and the In­sti­tute of Char­tered Ac­coun­tants of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ICATT).

He al­so holds a Mas­ter of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion with Mer­it from the Ox­ford In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Fi­nance.

NCB Fi­nan­cial Group, head­quar­tered in Kingston, serves as the hold­ing com­pa­ny for Na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Bank Ja­maica Ltd and over­sees a port­fo­lio of re­gion­al op­er­a­tions. The group’s com­pa­nies in­clude NCB Cap­i­tal Mar­kets, NCB In­sur­ance Agency & Fund Man­agers, and sub­sidiaries in Bar­ba­dos and Trinidad and To­ba­go. It al­so owns a ma­jor­i­ty stake in Guardian Hold­ings Lim­it­ed.

The group not­ed that Ram­per­sad’s ad­di­tion to the board is ex­pect­ed to sup­port on­go­ing strate­gic ini­tia­tives as NCBFG con­tin­ues to strength­en its foot­print across the Caribbean’s fi­nan­cial land­scape.

NCBFG’s chair­man is Michael Lee-Chin. The board of the com­pa­ny, which is pub­licly list­ed in both T&T and Ja­maica, in­cludes Arvin­der Bharath, a for­mer ex­ec­u­tive at T&T’s Cen­tral Bank.