USAID- funded Ja REEACH symposium highlights achievements in building climate resilience in Jamaica
Agriculture stakeholders, private sector organizations, research and educational institutions, financial institutions, government, and development assistance partners, charted a pathway to strengthening Jamaica’s resilience landscape at a learning symposium themed “Lessons in Resilience Building: Towards Replication and Sustainability. The event...
This is what happened to Old Bay Fishing Beach
The Old Bay Fishing beach in Whitehouse, Westmoreland now has a new look thanks to the efforts of Sandals Foundation volunteers from Sandals South Coast. The occasion was yet another International Coastal Cleanup activity, this time along Jamaica's Southeast...
A wonderful update: another batch of scholarship recipients
To kick start the 2022 school term, two new recipients have been awarded the prestigious Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart Tourism, Hospitality and Service Scholarship courtesy of the Stewart family, Sandals Foundation and Sandals Resorts International, through its Sandals Corporate University...
Donated fans bring welcomed relief for learning conditions at Broughton Primary
In continuing its support of local schools and ensuring they are more conducive to learning, Sandals Foundation Ambassadors from Sandals and Beaches Negril Resorts recently donated fans to the Broughton Primary School in Westmoreland. The donation, according to the...
Sandals Foundation Brings Local Craftsmen Face To Face With the High-End Tourism Industry
he yearlong program, which started in July 2018, includes hands-on training and support in production planning and management, designing and finishing, marketing and packaging and principles of business strategy with active participation from the procurement teams of Sandals and Beaches Resorts gift shops.
A SAFER SPACE FOR RED BANK PRIMARY
The Red Bank Primary and Infant Department is now safer and more secure thanks to the recent installation of a perimeter fence around the school compound.
The school, which was only 55% enclosed in prior years, solicited the help...
Students get hands on, gearing for jobs at Sandals
Over thirty culinary students from Boy’s Town Skills Training Centre had the benefit of experiencing the tourism product first hand out of classes recently during tours of Sandals Montego Bay recently.
Following the tours, most were excited at the...
SANDALS FOUNDATION/UNEP ASSESS SOLID WASTE REDUCTION PROJECT
Last
week major stakeholders in the Whitehouse and Bluefields Solid
Waste Reduction Project
met with residents in the communities to review the progress of the
project and discuss the way forward.
Launched on World
Ocean’s Day 2018 (June 8) through grant...
Terry Nickless: 1000 nights at Sandals
Nickless achieved his 1,000th night stay the week of April 22, to become the first member of the Sandals Select Rewards programme to reach this level.
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...