This Is Who We Are

Alan G. Heron
Alan Heron CEO and cofounder of Jamaica Foreign Traders. He was born in Jamaica W.I. on January 9th 1947. During the year 1953, he visited Denbigh Clarendon to see Queen Elizabeth 11, just after she was inaugurated the queen of England the same year, and after her father’s death 2 years before. Even as a young boy, Alan was impressed by her beauty and her close resemblance to his Aunt Mina Anderson, whom he had accompanied to this extraordinary event. In 1959 Alan attend Ardenne High School, which was the same year Fidel Castro defeated Batista and his massive army to become the president of Cuba. It was Batista siding with the US government to sign a treaty, leasing Guantanamo Bay to the US that drove Castro to side with the communist. It was the history of Fidel Castro that impressed Alan tremendously, which caused a lifetime of strength, determination and courage to overcome unimaginable obstacles. After graduating from high school in 1964, he joined his father and partner in the CD Alexander Co business. During this period he started Heron International, a real-estate and development Co. There he was able to meet with Colonel Herbert Julian, who was a representative for Victory Carriers an affiliate of the Onasis Shipping Line Company. This company later invested $250,000,000.00 into Heron’s international Co in order to purchase two major sugar companies. In 1972 Alan entered the political arena in Jamaica and retired in 1976 to migrate to Costa Rica along with his family. A few years later he then migrated to the United States where he started Heron International USA, and manufactured Pirates Gold Rum and Pirates Gold Rum punch in Kingston Jamaica to be imported to the United States. During this period, he owned many different clubs, liquor stores, real estate and home construction. After all those years he decided to go into the fish industry.