Jamaica gets website for its Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience
The internationally implemented Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR), a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) for climate adaptation and resilience building, has recently activated a website – www.ppcrja.org.jm - which highlights the work of its five projects active...
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...
Fi Wi Jamaica declares October 16 as #BIGUPJAMAICA Day!
- Monday, October 16, 2017, will be celebrated as National Heroes Day, and for the second year, Fi Wi Jamaica Project has declared that day as #BIGUPJAMAICA Day.
The initiative, being spearheaded by the projects’ Communications Consultant Fabian Thomas, aims...
Fabian Thomas Raring to Go!
Fabian Thomas is many things; he is a poet, founder, and artistic director of the artistic collective Tribe Sankofa; an Adjunct Lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the West Indies (Mona); and most recently...
D-Medz Will Stage Nuh Falla Bad Company Peace March in Clarendon
Reggae Peace Ambassador D-Medz will lead Clarendonians in a walk for peace dubbed the Nuh Falla Bad Company Peace March on Monday, October 16, National Heroe’s Day in the Clarendon capital, May Pen.
The Nuh Falla Bad Company Peace March...
Tribe Sankofa Recounts Carifesta 2017, looks forward to 2019!
Complete regional integration remains elusive. Since the collapse of the short-lived West Indies Federation in 1962, there have been several attempts to unify the Caribbean. In sports, it’s the West Indies cricket team, which for many years has been...
GREAT SHAPE iCARE HEADS TO BROMPTON
From October 2 through 6, Residents from Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth will have access to free eye care at the Great Shape! Inc. iCare Clinic.
The clinic, to be held at the Cambridge United Church in Brompton, St. Elizabeth from...
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...
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...
Jamaican Lecturer for US International Visitor Leadership Program
On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, the United States’ Multiregional International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) will commence with participants from 23 countries across the world. Fabian Thomas, Adjunct Lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the...