Fifty one new grants awarded for climate change adaptation
Fifty-one community and civil society organisations will be implementing projects to boost climate change adaptation in Jamaica after being awarded grants totalling J$228,000,000.00 under the Special Climate Change Adaptation Fund (SCCAF) – one of two funding mechanism under the...
REPOSTED: Ashleigh-Ann Mowatt Wins International Podcast Challenge
Ashleigh-Ann Mowatt’s podcast on the topic of homophobia in the Jamaican music scene was selected as one of three country winners of the International Podcast Challenge, This was the first year that the Podcast Challenge, which is open to all...
Sandals South Coast spearheads cleanup in Whitehouse Fishing Village
Sandals Foundation volunteers joined several other environmentally focused organizations to cleanup Coastlines across the Caribbean on International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day 2017.
Within the Whitehouse region, volunteers from Sandals South Coast and community members converged at the populated Whitehouse Fishing...
Westmoreland’s winning Peace Garden, a place of restoration in Grange Hill
When team members from Sandals, Beaches and Grand Pineapple Resorts in Negril visited Jabneh Christian Academy in April, they knew immediately, that they were helping to create a winning peace garden. They were right, as the Grange Hill-based institution...
SANDALS NEGRIL GUESTS MAKE HUGE LAPTOP DONATIONS TO GREEN ISLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL
When Sandals Negril guests Hector and Pamela Cooley signed up for one of the Sandals Foundation’s Reading Road Trips three years ago, they had no idea that going into schools and interacting with the children would be the start...
Tourism Ministry to Host First Falmouth Heritage Expo
Falmouth’s noted Georgian architecture and rich historical heritage will take centre stage on October 18, with the inaugural staging of the Falmouth Heritage Exposition, in Water Square in the parish capital.
The heritage expo aims to boost civic pride in Falmouth by...
SANDALS FOUNDATION DONATES BATHROOMS TO LOGWOOD BASIC SCHOOL: SCHOOL NOW 100 PERCENT COMPLIANT
Logwood Basic School in Hanover is five bathrooms bigger and now completely compliant where the Early Childhood Commission’s (ECC) sanitation standard is concerned after the institution received a brand new bathroom facility through the Sandals Foundation.
It was easy to...
Accompong community radio station receives added equipment on World Radio Day
Manager, Accompong community radio station, Abeng 88.7 FM, Norma Rowe Edwards (third right) receives a cheque from Isabel Viera Bermudez, Advisor for Communication and Information at the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean to purchase equipment...
PLASTICS BE GONE!
With every passing year, the detrimental effects of plastic waste on our environment become even more glaring. With roughly 300 million tons of plastic being produced globally each year, the Sandals Foundation has intensified its efforts to reduce plastic...
