Monday, May 6, 2024
Wha Gwaan

Wha Gwaan

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

Ashley Simms (right), Sandals regional public relations coordinator for Montego Bay Region, assists Evett Malcolm, Social Development Commission Field Supervisor in handing over The Sandals Trophy to captain Tiray Thoston at the presentation ceremony for the Retirement Community Football League recently.

Hope and Pray Football Club defeated Jump Street in a dramatic penalty shoot-out to emerge victorious in the Social Development Commission and Sandals Montego Bay region-sponsored Retirement Community Football League recently The event was part of Sandals and SDC’s “Spread...

The Sandals Foundation is broadening its commitment to local communities, this time extending a hand to craftsmen and women to support more local production and build sustainable businesses. Working in partnership with Sandals Resorts International (SRI) resort shops, the Sandals...
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In the last two years, Jamaicans who share a vested interest in maintaining a public and personable brand online have been busy re-discovering and re-developing strategies to stay connected with their customers, close business partners, and community stakeholders. This...

Over 300 farmers from nine communities in Clarendon have increased their awareness of climate change and its effects on agriculture. Many are now diversifying their crop production to ensure greater responsiveness to climate impacts and disaster risk. This is due...

“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...

It is true they say that in giving sometimes you receive so much more. Bringing the curtains down on Breast Cancer Awareness Month, members of the Public Relations team at Sandals South Coast led by General Manager, Adrian Whitehead...

The Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park celebrated their 25th anniversary on Sunday, February 25, 2018, with an event dubbed "Symphony in the Mountains”. The celebrations which took place at Holywell (the National Park’s main recreation area) commemorated...

  Romar Muir is a Jamaican-born Canadian Psychoanalyst and a former Psychology lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Romar has a giving personality and is willing to help others whenever he can. He is an outdoorsy man,...

Throughout history, men have been the warriors, hunters, and breadwinners of society. Now imagine a warrior or a hunter in therapy. It’s hard to imagine right? A hunter would not admit to needing help or even admit to having...
The team pauses for a quick photo with the over 40 bags of garbage which they collected on International Coastal Cleanup Day.

Volunteers from Sandals South Coast along with members of the Jamaica Defence Force, Cadets from Black River High School and members of the Kiwanis Club of Whitehouse Classic came together during a cleanup at the Whitehouse Fishing Beach in...