Thursday, May 2, 2024
Wha Gwaan

Wha Gwaan

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

Close to one hundred educators across Westmoreland and Hanover are now better prepared to navigate the new blended approach to learning following the completion of the Sandals Foundation coordinated Great Shape! Inc.’s ‘Teach the Teachers’ Workshop. On August 2, seventy-six...

“Mental health is really what Motivate JA is built on,'' says founder Kyesha Randall. The former Miss St. James Festival Queen launched the Motivate Jamaica project as a parish initiative, with hopes of boosting youth development across Jamaica. “I...

The Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, has said that events such as Gosplash “reinforce the contribution of the cultural and creative sectors to the economy.” According to the Minister several stakeholders, including owners and operators, suppliers of goods...

Sandals Montego Bay launch the “Flagship Innovators” programme At Sandals Montego Bay, approximately 20 young dynamic team members comprising of line staff, supervisors and assistant managers, are on a game-changing mission as they make their contribution to the development of...

The people are Jamaica’s greatest resources; resilient, innovative and bursting with creativity. As things and times change and evolve, people have found ways to add to the ever-changing local (and by extension international) creative scene. They have found new...

Some 200 volunteers from Sandals, Beaches and Grand Pineapple Resorts participated in a "Labour of Love" on Labour Day, painting and refurbishing a number of schools across Jamaica. The teams painted buildings and playground fixtures, renovated furniture and constructed sign...

Ahead of the start of the new academic year, Home and Family Life Education (HFLE) teachers from at least five Caribbean countries met to discuss how parents can play an active role in the instruction of the Sexuality Education and...
Oceanfront glass balconies will offer guests uncompromising views of the Caribbean Sea at the all-new Sandals Dunn’s River in Ocho Rios, Jamaica

Eager to extend a warm welcome home to the wholly reconceptualized and fully renovated Sandals Dunn’s River, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) announced today that reservations are now open for arrivals beginning May 24, 2023. The resort company unveils today what’s...

Somewhere on the West End, Bob Marley’s could you be loved fills the air and sitting on the other side of the table is Brad Adams. Today he’s clad in shorts, sneaks and his signature Great Shape! Inc. Teach...
Sandals South Coast Entertainment Supervisor, Adam Powell shows student leaders from A.Z Preston Hall, UWI (Mona) the latest dance moves during the group’s visit to the luxury-included resort.

Life on campus should be one of the most empowering, fun-filled, insightful times of one’s life, and this semester, just over 300 students of the Aston Preston Hall of Residence, at The University of the West Indies, Mona, will...