Thursday, May 2, 2024
Wha Gwaan

Wha Gwaan

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

JCDC 55 Gospel Finalists Chosen The top ten finalists for the 2018 staging of the Jamaica Gospel Song Competition were chosen from the semi-final round of the competition, held on Ash Wednesday, February 14. The finalists, who will compete to...

Continuing on their commitment to supporting artists and producing quality, original content, Audiomack has today launched ‘Fine Tuned’ featuring Jamaican Dancehall maven, Alkaline. The series is being hosted via Audiomack’s ‘Audiomack World’ platform, which debuted earlier this year to...

DUMFRIES, St. James- Residents of the Dumfries community in St. James last Friday came in groups of threes and more to take full advantage of the complementary services at the fourth staging of the Annual Health and Social Fair...

Some 10 million listeners across the United States of America tuned in to their favourite disc jockeys (DJs) promoting Jamaica and Sandals Resorts last week as Sandals Negril hosted 18 top US radio shows reaching a total of 20...

Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL), in observation of its 30th anniversary, has a packed schedule of activities slated to run from November 1 to December 10, 2021. The organization which opened its doors in November 1991, remains Jamaica’s...

As we have entered the 2nd year in the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still experiencing the direct and indirect effects that this disease has had on various business sectors. Despite many businesses having to close their doors or cut...

On Saturday, October 28, 2017, team members from Sandals, Beaches and Grand Pineapple Resorts in Negril took to the streets of Lucea, Green Island, Savanna-la-Mar and Negril to enlighten residents on breast cancer in recognition of breast cancer awareness...
A key part of the assessments done in the twenty communities explored awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and actions being done to incorporate them into community development. Here indigenous people from the Surama Village in Guyana share cards with the 17 SDGs.

Twenty rural community groups in two countries were recently assessed by the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) through its Pilot Beneficiary Group Capacity and Programme Assessment. This intervention, which targeted 12 communities in...

Access to water has always been a challenge for students at the Mount Airy Primary and Infant School in Mocho, Clarendon. The tank at the school is insufficient to meet the needs of the 121 students and 13 members of...