Thursday, May 2, 2024
Wha Gwaan

Wha Gwaan

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

Sandals South Coast Volunteers, Vanessa Williams (foreground) and Evernie Taylor (background) paint the entrance gate at the Bluefields Police Station.

Nearly 200 volunteers from Sandals and Beaches Resorts, in alignment with this year’s Labour Day theme “Re-igniting a Nation for Greatness”, ventured into towns and districts across Jamaica to spearhead projects in aid of community development. The initiatives undertaken included...
Director of Nursing Services, Matron Maria Stampp (center) has given over 37 years of service to the nursing profession. She is joined by her colleagues; Deputy Director of Nursing Services, Ingrid Stephens (left) and Nurse Anaesthetist, Andrea Wright who have both served for 28 years. All three nurses were honoured by Sandals South Coast during a Nurses Week activity recently.

With up to three decades of service given to the nursing profession and the people of Jamaica, it is little wonder that Sandals South Coast hand-picked 11 longest-serving nurses at the Black River Hospital for special recognition during Nurses...

As Jamaicans continue to grabble with the shock of the recent hike in cruelties against women, the Sandals Resorts in the Montego Bay (Sandals Montego Bay, Sandals Royal Caribbean and Sandals Inn) saw it fit to empower their female...

Jamaican health care workers have given a ringing endorsement to the initiative of Sandals Resorts Executive Chairman Adam Stewart to extend complimentary vacations to 300 of their members across the Caribbean as recognition of their sterling efforts in combating...

A recent Volunteer Day at the St. Elizabeth Infirmary provided the facility with quite the facelift and left it’s residents properly pampered. The idea for the Volunteer Day was brought forward by the Minister of Local Government and Community...

“At last, with an official boundary and no threat of mining, the Cockpit Country has a chance of joining the Blue and John Crow Mountains as another mixed World Heritage Site” remarked Dr. Susan Otuokon, Executive Director of the...
Grade 4 students (from left) Akayla Forrester, Tessania Tulsie and Sonia Spence from Broughton Primary School, Westmoreland shared bright smiles for the camera as they headed to sea with the Beaches Negril watersports team for a glass bottom boat tour and lessons on different types of sea creatures and the importance of taking care of the ocean.

In observance of World Oceans Day, Sandals Negril and Beaches Negril treated students from Broughton Primary School in Westmoreland to a day of fun activities surrounding the benefits gained from the ocean; the importance of taking care of our...

Employees of 24-7 Intouch brought Christmas cheer to the Village Of Hope Ltd. (formerly Hope Hospice) in Albion, Montego Bay on Wednesday, December 21st. As a part of its recently launched program, "Intouch Communities", the Jamaica arm of the company...

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...

The energy level at Sandals South Coast was at an all-time high as over 70 of Sandals and Beaches most talented dancers, vocalists, musicians, disc jockeys, spoken word performers and models from seven Caribbean Islands converged at the Luxury-Included®...