Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wha Gwaan

Wha Gwaan

Updates on positive developments, events and activities in the island.

Wisynco’s Director of Marketing, Francois Chalifour (left) and Half Way Tree Primary School Principal Carol O’Connor Clarke (right), shake hands during the presentation of two 1,000 gallon water storage tanks to the institution on Thursday, January 19. The request from the institution’s Parent Teacher Association (PTA) was granted as part of Wisynco’s Bigga Soft Drink brand’s drive to support proper sanitation in schools which have a challenge with access to consistent running water. Looking on are Half Way Tree Primary School’s PTA 2nd VP, Tresha Hamilton Dunkley (centre); Head Girl, Erica Bernard (2nd from left) and Deputy Head Boy, Adjae McHugh (2nd from right).

Half Way Tree Primary is the first of several schools across the island to receive water storage tanks from Wisynco through the company’s Bigga Soft Drink brand’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative: ‘Bigga Sanitation in Schools’. Wisynco’s Director of Marketing,...

As of summer 2021 the team Nuff Respeck takes to social media to launch an instagram campaign with the goal to tackle the issues of disrespect in the workplace. Baring no form of disrespect, the team is slated to...

Last year Canada surpassed the US in additional air lift to Jamaica, with some 42,000 new air seats added for the winter tourism season. While the Jamaican government remains keen in their pursuit of additional airlift from key markets, Sandals...

Youth across Jamaica will have an opportunity to develop their skills, knowledge, and expertise in social enterprise come this July 26-28, 2018 at the inaugural Youth 4 Sustainable Development (Y4SD) Conference at the University of Technology, Kingston. The event themed...

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, has become the most recent recipient of the coveted Actor Boy Awards (ABA) Honouree Award. Each year, the prestigious Jamaican theatre based...
Shane Smyle, a Physiotherapist from the Board of Supervision in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development checks the blood pressure of a homeless man on World Homeless Day at the Drop-in Centre in Black River.

Theodore Roosevelt once said “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” It was with that thought in...

Sandals Earth Guardians in the Montego Bay region were part of a World Wetlands Day effort which collected a total of 1,175.35 pounds of garbage from major wetland areas in Montego Bay. The clean-up exercise, organized by the Montego Bay Marine...

Close to 400 children at Culloden Early Childhood Institution and Kings Primary in Westmoreland have started the new school year with a generous donation of reading books, educational games and learning manipulatives for their school library. The donation was...

Students at Green Island High School in Hanover recently won nine awards in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission National Drama Finals for their performance ‘Stop Gender-Based Violence’. The play was improvised and choreographed by the students themselves during a...