Monday, March 31, 2025
Wha Gwaan

Wha Gwaan

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

It is said that when schools, communities and organizations work together to support learning, students tend to stay in school longer, do better and enjoy school more. The Cove Primary School was one such institution to benefit from a partnership...
Rachel McLarty as Director of Communications and PR at Sandals Resort International

Sandals Resorts International recently announced the appointment of Rachel McLarty to Corporate Director of Communications & Public Relations, overseeing the company's corporate communication efforts and public relations initiatives for the Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts brands throughout the Caribbean....

The Sandals Foundation continues to spread holiday cheer this year with thousands of children across the island set to receive brand new toys and games through the foundation’s annual Christmas Toy Drive. The Toy Drive has been a staple calendar...

The Women’s Centre in St Ann are recent recipients of a sizeable donation of feminine hygiene supplies, courtesy of the Sandals Foundation and the Pack for a Purpose program. Regional Public Relations Manager in the Ochi region, Lyndsay Isaacs presented...
A key part of the assessments done in the twenty communities explored awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and actions being done to incorporate them into community development. Here indigenous people from the Surama Village in Guyana share cards with the 17 SDGs.

Twenty rural community groups in two countries were recently assessed by the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) through its Pilot Beneficiary Group Capacity and Programme Assessment. This intervention, which targeted 12 communities in...

Sandals Earth Guardians in the Montego Bay region were part of a World Wetlands Day effort which collected a total of 1,175.35 pounds of garbage from major wetland areas in Montego Bay. The clean-up exercise, organized by the Montego Bay Marine...
Sandals Montego Bay General manager Christopher Elliott handing over a set of netball bibs as part of his company’s sponsorship of the Flanker SDC Community Netball League to Tracy-Ann Davis of the organizing committee while Amalya Stewart looks on. Occasion was the Rally to mark the opening of the competition.

The Flanker Community Netball League tipped off in fine style recently with Providence winning the Opening Rally by defeating Capitol Hill in the finals at the community multipurpose court. The competition, which is organized by the Social Development Commission and...

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...

  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,...