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National Baking Company became the first corporate company to launch an internal Jamaica Moves programme.

The launch, held last Friday at the company’s headquarters, came days after the Ministry of Health set in motion the Jamaica Moves Get Moving Corporate Challenge.

The challenge will target private- and public-sector companies through a friendly performance-based competition. It will be done using the Running Events calendar, where companies are encouraged to enter up to six 5K races over a four-month period, from September to December 2017. The races in the circuit include the FLOW/PUMA Fortis 5K and Colour Me Happy in September, CUMI Come Run and JN Foundation Heroes in Action 5K in October, CB UWI 5K and Reggae Marathon in November and December, respectively.

Tiffany Wong, special projects – office of the chairman at Continental Baking Company and overall winner of the Jamaica Moves Get Moving Challenge, said as the overall winner for the Get Moving Challenge she was inspired to start the company’s internal programme – Fitness and Fun.

“I realised and could appreciate more and more how important it is to keep moving. I thought about how many people in the office are literally just sitting behind their desk and not doing any physical activity and we don’t have a fitness programme in place at all, so I decided to plan a health and wellness team,” Wong said.

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, who joined the workout at the launch, commended National for taking this first step in providing leadership for the rest of Jamaica’s corporate entities to follow.

Tufton noted that it was good business sense for employers to encourage their employees to be healthy, alert and to pursue a healthy lifestyle.

“It makes employees happier people, more contented, provides them with the energy level to produce more and be more productive. It really impacts the bottom line of any entity if your overall company profile in terms of the health of your employees is positive,” he explained.

National’s Fitness and Fun will be a series of physical activity-based events moving forward.

What is the Jamaica Moves
Get Moving Corporate Challenge?
The JAMAICA Moves Get Moving Corporate Challenge is open to small and large organisations.

– Small organisations can register up to 50 employees and large organisations can register up to 100.

– Companies can sign up for the challenge by visiting the Jamaica Moves website www.jamaicamoves.com or calling 297-MOVE (6683).

– At the end of the challenge, companies and staff with the most points will be awarded. The awards include Company Spirit, Male and Female Champion.

– An organisation’s perfor-mance will be calculated based on the amount of points its members have accumulated. The organisation that has accumulated the most points will be declared the Jamaica Moves Get Moving Challenge Champion.

– The Jamaica Moves Get Moving Corporate Challenge has become increasingly important in light of a 2011 study by the World Bank, titled Public Policy and the Challenge of Chronic Non Communicable Diseases, which estimated that an individual suffering from any NCD spends approximately one-third of household per capita expenditure on health-care services and the purchase of pharmaceutical drugs.

– Jamaica Moves is the country’s coordinated national response to the increased incidences of NCDs such as diabetes, hypertension and certain cancers.

– Through education, engagement and the building of supportive environments, the programme hopes to reduce NCDs by 25 per cent by the year 2025.

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In an effort to correct what the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) has estimated to be losses of US$12.8 billion annually in unexploited revenue from the diaspora, the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) hopes to double the number of Jamaicans investing on the stock market by 2019.

“You have a choice as to where you put your money — Wall Street or Harbour Street.” attorney-at-law Marlon Hill told members of diaspora who gathered at the JSE for a closing bell ringing ceremony on Wednesday.

The event formed part of the week-long Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, which focused on issues affecting Jamaicans living overseas while exploring how the public and private sector could create a more efficient system to capitalise on untapped revenues from the diaspora.

“If you love GraceKennedy products, why not invest in the company? The bread, biscuits, logistics — all of them are listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange and its only US$100 to open an account with the JSE.

“There’s a total of six million of us on and off the island, and of the population on island, only 10 per cent of Jamaicans have participated in the JSE. We would like to grow the participation by 10 per cent for both Jamaicans here and those living overseas,” Hill continued.

Deputy General Manager of JSE Robin Levy reasoned that the Jamaican culture, unlike other cultures where people buy stocks for their grandchildren as gifts, could play a role in the minuscule amount of Jamaicans investing locally.

CaPRI’s study, entitled ‘Value of the Diaspora to Jamaica’s Growth Agenda’, also found that investment in local businesses, banks, and the stock market has the highest area of untapped economic potential from the diaspora market.

According to the study, the diaspora currently invests US$330 million in banks across Jamaica and another US$230 million in local businesses. Investment in the stock market totalled US$175 million. However, the study reveals that country has the potential to raise up to US$12.8 billion in revenues annually from investment.

Jamaica’s stock market was recently named the best performing stock market in the world and since the beginning of the year saw its index move up 22 per cent. Over the last three years the market has had annual increases in index of over 52 per cent.

SOCIAL EXCHANGE MARKET BY 2018

Local and international investors have a total of 66 companies to consider for investment, but that number is expected to be increased by the end of 2018 with the introduction of the JSE Social Exchange.

“We are planning to start a social enterprise exchange which will allow people who have community-based organisations like Deaf Can!, which is not only making a profit but is also impacting the deaf community through job creation, to raise funds on the market,” Levy told the Jamaica Observer.

Plans are that the social enterprises will list on the JSE to support expansion programmes or pay off debt. Social enterprises seeking to list on the JSE will also adhere to proper governance procedures as that of other companies listed on the exchange. According to the JSE, a broker will help the entity in determining a stock price that will be attractive to public.

“There is also crowd funding for early-stage social enterprises where friends and family will want to help out. But once they grow beyond a certain stage and they realise that there is future business in what they doing, there will be a stock market for them to list their securities. Who knows? You can have Deaf Can! coffee all over the world,” Levy told the Caribbean Business Report.

JSE said it is partnering with the British Council and Jamaica National Small Business — which is already working with a number of social enterprises through the Social Enterprise Boost Initiative — along with Professor Kadamawe Knife from The University of the West Indies in determining the number of enterprises to be listed.

“There is a huge trust issue in the diaspora; a lot of them have sent money to friends or family to invest in businesses and those monies quite often disappear. So what the Social Exchange will add is that level of integrity, trust and accountability that is usually lacking in just giving it to family or friends to formalise it.

“Some people say its red tape. It’s not really because people are investing their money ,and you have to be accountable for how that money is used and to give them a return. This is not a begging situation, it’s investing in Jamaica, doing good and making money while you’re doing it,” Levy said.

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Chairman of the Diaspora Task Force of the Economic Growth Council (EGC) Dr David Panton says a Jamaican Diaspora bond will be launched later this year, or early next year, in which Jamaicans in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada can participate.

Dr Panton made the disclosure during an update about the progress of initiatives being undertaken by the EGC at the Jamaica 55 Diaspora 2017 Conference on the second day of the conference last week..

“We have started that process and we feel fairly confident that we will be able to have a bond which we can launch if not later this year, then certainly in early next year,” he said.

Addressing the Diaspora Growth Forum session organised by the Jamaica National Group, Dr Panton said that bonds were being used by other countries, such as Israel, and had proven to be a successful method of engaging the Diaspora in investing in their homeland.

“…They (the Jewish Diaspora) did this because of their commitment to the State of Israel…on which they wanted to make a tremendous impact. Therefore, I believe that approach of setting up an entity, such as…the Jamaican Bond Agency, as it were, could make a significant impact on our country,” he said, noting that the Jamaican Diaspora was investing in Jamaica through remittances of some US$2.2 billion a year.

“Jamaicans are not poor; they are sending back a lot of money to Jamaica. They clearly have the capital; however, the question is how do we incentivise the members of the Jamaican Diaspora to effectively participate and engage in Jamaica,” he suggested.

Recently, managing director of JN Bank, Maureen Hayden-Cater urged the Government to establish more concrete avenues for Jamaicans in the Diaspora to contribute to the development of the nation. In reference to 2013 data published by InfoDev for the World Bank, she noted that a quarter of Jamaicans in the Diaspora had investable wealth or annual earnings of US$100,000 or more. More than 70 per cent are interested in investing in start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises, and 63 per cent are also interested in Diaspora bonds.

“We must recognise that Jamaica is not only an island of some 2.7 million people, we are much bigger and expansive than that,” said Hayden-Cater who was speaking against the background of JN Bank’s launch of its JN Diaspora Certificate of Deposit in March, with tenure from one to five years and starting at £1,000, CA$1,000, or US$2,000. Interest at the top end of the longest terms on these investments range from 1.5 per cent in pounds, 1.1 per cent in Canadian dollars to 1.8 per cent in US dollars.

Two per cent of the interest income earned by individual investors through the JN Diaspora Certificate of Deposit will be matched by JN Bank and contributed to social enterprises engaged in the JN Foundation’s Social Enterprise Boost Initiative.

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Some 50 business leaders, industry stakeholders and policymakers were trained in Social Enterprise 101 at a two-day Social Enterprise Boost Initiative (SEBI) workshop, a programme being implemented by the JN Foundation.

The participants were drawn from government agencies, ministries and departments of co-operatives and friendly societies through partnership with SEBI, the World Bank and the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Saffrey Brown, general manager of the JN Foundation, which spearheads SEBI, said that social enterprise was an excellent tool which can propel community development.

“We have all experienced good projects that have not survived, because it takes dedicated resources to sustain growth and the social enterprise model can achieve this,” she said, in addressing the opening session of the workshop at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

Vivian Brown, director of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, welcomed the training and pointed out that in recent years, social enterprise has been a journey of discovering.

“Social enterprises are becoming critical agents for development by using solid business models. The model has shown particular strength in addressing issues relating to crime; and the marginalised, such as persons with disabilities; as well as addressing environmental and climate change issues,” he said.

“My ministry recognises that social enterprises creates local value and can play a central role in the creation of jobs,” he added.

Elaine Tinsley, private-sector specialist at the World Bank who facilitated the training, said the World Bank was pleased to be involved and noted that if the social enterprise sector grows, it would make significant impact on the Jamaican economy.

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Delories Jones (right) JN Fund Managers Limited vice-president- sales and business development presents St Catherine’s Teacher Parish Award to Careen James Barnett, during the Junior Achievement 2017 Champions For Youth Awards Banquet recently. Junior Achievement Jamaica awarded organisations and teachers at its fifth annual Champions for Youth Awards Banquet and Silent Auction held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in St Andrew. The awards recognised the top teacher in each parish as well as companies and institutions who were considered as the most impactful in helping Junior Achievement to reach its goal of empowering over 10,000 youth during the 2016-2017 period.

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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Delegates attending the recently concluded Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference were impressed by the work of three social enterprises being nurtured by the Social Enterprise Boost Initiative (SEBI), a project of the JN Foundation and United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The Jamaican delegates who reside in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada were taken on a social tour of the Deaf Can! Coffee; 360 Recycle Manufacturing and Alpha Wear JAin Kingston.

The delegates toured the Deaf Can! Coffee facility at the Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf located at 4 Cassia Park where they were treated to coffee, milk shake, fruit smoothie and pastries, all products of the Deaf Can! enterprise.

Meanwhile, 360 Recycle Manufacturing Limited gave them a glimpse in how they converted waste to wealth by using discarded plastic bottles, styrofoam, newspaper, and cardboard to create pieces of art, flower pots, playground equipment, garden sets and construction materials such as building blocks.

Alpha Wear JA, located on South Camp Road displayed their social enterprise offering –of screen printing and high quality embroidery services on textile and ceramics to the delight of the delegates.

“It is very inspiring,” said Renea Douglas, vice president of the Jamaican Canadian Association. “Having lived outside of Jamaica for many years, it is good to see them (social enterprises) doing something to create opportunities for themselves.”

Douglas was particularly impressed with the production of 360 Recycle Manufacturing and Deaf Can!

“It is an experience to witness this social enterprise using recycled materials and creating useful products as well as employment,” she said of the 35 persons employed by 360 Recycle Manufacturing from nearby communities on Rousseau Road.

“For Deaf Can!, we see the inclusiveness whereby these young people are given an opportunity to improve themselves,” she added.

For retired banker and teacher, Sonia Ferguson, the tour of the facilities was insightful. “I’m not a risk taker but to see people creating employment and utilizing resources that are here, I think there is hope for Jamaica,” she observed.

Ferguson also gave glowing tributes to 360 Recycle Manufacturing. “I have a passion for recycling and to see that this company turned it into a business, is amazing. I’m glad somebody is recycling and utilizing the garbage and making a business out of it,” she said.

Saffrey Brown, General Manager of JN Foundation said the tour was organized in order to showcase to the Jamaican Diaspora that positive things are happening in Jamaica.

“These social enterprises are bringing opportunities for employment, bringing opportunities for entrepreneurship and bringing opportunities for social innovators to define who they are and what they are capable of. Social enterprise is an avenue that is inclusive and allows them to do that,” she said.

Ms. Brown encouraged the delegates to support these social enterprises and said they could contribute to the development of these enterprises by taking up the opportunities offered by the JN Bank Diaspora Certificate of Deposit.

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She explained that a percentage of the interest earned from the CD will be matched and re-invested into businesses being nurtured by the Social Enterprise Boost Initiative.

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The Best Care Special Education School is set to grow its student body to 65 by the September term, says Orville Johnson, chairman of the Best Care Foundation.

Johnson said that the foundation is focusing on the development of the school’s, current population of 40 students, to better serve Jamaica’s large, special needs population. The foundation has been providing services for intellectually and physically disabled children for more than 40 years.

“We are recruiting students now for the September term,” Johnson said. “We want to create an oasis where they can have their potential developed.”

Started seven years ago, the school provides academic and vocational training for students aged six to 21 years. Located at 11 Trevennion Road in Kingston, it serves children with disabilities, with a curriculum covering training in skills such as cosmetology, agriculture, music, and handicraft.

“Children should have all the stimulation they need to reach their full potential,” Johnson stated. “Unfortunately, we have a culture in which some are left at home. Thankfully, we have been evolving, but, there needs to be more spaces for them to develop and grow to their full potential.”

Johnson pointed out that 10 to 15 per cent of the population have special needs, and more educational opportunities are needed for children in this group. He was speaking at the Best Care Foundation’s fund-raising gala at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on July 15.

General manager, JN Foundation, Saffrey Brown told the audience that greater effort is needed to support organisations catering to those with special needs, as their prospects are otherwise being limited.

For the 10 to 15 per cent of the population who have special needs, of that group, only about one per cent forms part of the labour force in the formal sector, she pointed out.

“We need to bring all communities into the national development effort,” Brown stated. “But those with special needs continue to be a very marginalised and at-risk group.”

She commended the Best Care Foundation’s decision to develop its special education school, to expand its service to the special needs community, with the school also serving to increase its income-earning possibilities, so that it can become more self-sustaining.

Only a small fraction of Jamaicans with special needs are getting employment in the formal sector, the development specialist stated. She said those areas where they find employment, or which help them to find employment, deserve greater assistance from the private sector and wider community.

“Social enterprises merge business objectives with social objectives,” Brown said. At the JN Foundation, they have found that, “about a quarter of the organisations we work with are run by people with disabilities, which means that these social enterprises are extremely inclusive.”

The JN Foundation general manager urged private sector companies, “when you are looking for corporate gifts, go down to Best Care School and buy from their products….You need to insert them into the supply chain”.

Miss Jamaica World 2016, Ashlie White-Barrett, told the audience at the gala function to judge the quality of work done at the school by the beautiful wristband and necklace she was wearing.

“I was blown away when I went to visit the Best Care School,” the beauty queen said. “These children have been doing fantastic work, therefore, it is important that we support their initiative. It is an investment in our future.”

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BUNKER’S HILL, Trelawny – Nature lovers from home and abroad can now explore the unspoilt biodiversity in areas of the Jamaican Cockpit Country, through the Bunker’s Hill Cultural Xperience & River Tour, which was officially opened to the public last Friday in Bunker’s Hill, Trelawny.

Clover Gordon, co-owner of the eco-tourism attraction, said the facility offers a “total Jamaican experience” with a variety of activities, such as: a nature trail for the physically fit or adventurous; river spa and cave exploration. The property also boasts a botanical garden and cascading waterfall.

In addition, the facility also offers cultural experiences, through performances of our country’s traditional dances, such as the Tambo and Gerreh and servings of authentic Jamaican food.

“Following the rigorous tour activities, the appetite that our visitors ‘work up’ will be satiated with mouth-watering Jamaican dishes, such as: our traditional run dung, roast yam, rice and peas, jerk chicken and jerk pork; to be topped off with cornmeal pudding, dukunoo, all cooked on a wood fire,” Gordon shared.

The facility will generate some 30 new jobs; providing employment for people from the community who want to work as tour guides, chefs, waitresses, ground personnel and lifeguards.

“All of our employees are from the surrounding communities,” Gordon pointed out, “hence, our operation is actually generating growth and jobs.”

Project Manager, Social Enterprise Boost Initiative (SEBI), Opal Whyte, explained that the Bunker’s Hill Cultural Xperience & River Tour is also creating “backward and forward linkages”.

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The Jamaica Diaspora Education Task Force (JDETF) will officially announce its Jamaica 55 project at the staging of the 7th Biennial Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference in July.

The ‘Pledge2Build’ campaign, which is valued at US$2 million, targets early-childhood and primary schools.

The funds will be used to upgrade schools across the island. Diaspora Board Member for West/Mid-West, United States of America and Chair of JDETF, Leo Gilling, told JIS News that the project will be executed in collaboration with Jamaica National (JN), adding that it has been declared a Jamaica 55 project for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information.

The funds will be used to upgrade schools across the island. Diaspora Board Member for West/Mid-West, United States of America and Chair of JDETF, Leo Gilling, told JIS News that the project will be executed in collaboration with Jamaica National (JN), adding that it has been declared a Jamaica 55 project for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information.

Mr. Gilling pointed out that one of the duties of the Task Force is to broaden the support for education by Jamaicans and organisations in the diaspora through active engagement, and to upgrade the infrastructure of early-childhood and primary schools through fundraising initiatives.

“We are an action-oriented unit, so I encourage everyone in the diaspora who wishes to give back to Jamaica and advance education to join our regular conference, discussions, fora and summits and give of their expertise to help our homeland,” he urged.

“We are an action-oriented unit, so I encourage everyone in the diaspora who wishes to give back to Jamaica and advance education to join our regular conference, discussions, fora and summits and give of their expertise to help our homeland,” he urged.

Since the Task Force was formed, it has been giving unwavering support to the advancement of education at various levels of the education system in Jamaica.

The Task Force has collaborated with the Ministry, Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in conducting two biennial education summits to facilitate professional development and information exchange between Jamaican teachers and the diaspora.

Several other educational initiatives were undertaken by the JDETF. These included a five-week education camp for at-risk grade-three students. This programme, which is valued at US$500,000 and sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Issa Trust Foundation and Food For The Poor, is aimed at improving the literacy and numeracy mastery level of these low-performing grade-three students.

This programme, which is valued at US$500,000 and sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Issa Trust Foundation and Food For The Poor, is aimed at improving the literacy and numeracy mastery level of these low-performing grade-three students.

Presently, five teachers are participating in the Excellence in STEM Experimental Education (EXSEED) in California.

Through this initiative, a partnership was forged between the JTA and Loma Linda University in the US to train teachers in how to use iPads to teach STEM subjects in the classrooms. More than 100 teachers have benefited from the programme since its inception in 2014.

More than 100 teachers have benefited from the programme since its inception in 2014. Mr. Gilling explained that JDETF focuses on capacity building through professional development training, workshops and seminars for student teachers’ advancement.

Meanwhile, in collaboration with Broward Alliance Caribbean Educators in Florida and the JTA, the Education Task Force facilitated more than 250 teachers from across the island in a two-day middle managers workshop. They were exposed to training in areas of classroom management, leadership and best practices.

They were exposed to training in areas of classroom management, leadership and best practices.

Mr. Gilling noted that, going forward, the Task Force will continue to engage educators at their biennial summit in Florida; continue the five-year plan for the Pledge2Build campaign; build on the school-twinning project and expand the STEM education training and professional development for Jamaican teachers.

This year’s Diaspora Conference will be held from July 23-26 at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, under the theme ‘Partnering for Growth’.

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A Doctor Bird seeming to greet visitors, as it swiftly flaps its wings and plunges its elongated beak into a fiery-red ginger lily in pursuit of nectar, is all the confirmation one needs to know that he is in for a truly authentic Jamaican treat.

This is Bunkers Hill, Trelawny, located at the entrance to the biodiverse Cockpit Country, which abounds with nature and history, and lingering cultural rituals and practices that date back to the inhabitation of Maroons, led by Captain Cudjoe and the legendary heroine, Nanny, as well as the Tainos.

These fine distinctions have been packaged by Clover and O’Brian Gordon into the Bunkers Hill Cultural Xperience, which is unlike other tourism experiences Jamaica has to offer.

The Eden-like five-acre property, nourished by the gushing waters of the Tangle River that flows into the Martha Brae, captures some of the fine details of Jamaica’s early inhabitants, giving its visitors the opportunity to live and breathe its heritage.

On the banks of the Tangle, for example, are caves, still fresh with the writings and carvings of the Taino people, who once inhabited it; and if one should hike just a bit farther through the bushes and up the steep cliffs, he would discover another cave which sustained Cudjoe and his men in their effort to evade the British. However, caution: it’s not a trip for the faint-hearted.

There is more. Beyond the caves lies the ruins of the Dromilly Great House, and the site where Cudjoe and his men ambushed British troops around 1795.

AUTHENTICALLY JAMAICAN
Everything about the Bunkers Hill Cultural Xperience is authentically Jamaican.

“We prepare authentic Jamaican meals; such as, run dung and roast yam; roast sweet potato; dukoonoo; rice and peas with coconut milk, grated and the juices drained; cornmeal pudding, all cooked on wood fires,” Clover Gordon, who jointly manages the property with her husband, O’Brian, explains, stimulating one’s appetite.

The drinks and meals are served in painted enamel cups and plates, along with the utensils Jamaicans used in the 19th to mid-20th centuries; or, on banana leaves; or carefully cleaned calabash shells, as was the practise of the Maroons. These traditions are also kept alive by their descendants, in some rural Jamaican communities.

Jobs coming for lifeguards, cooks, tour guides
One of the social enterprises nurtured under the Social Enterprise Boost Initiative by the JN Foundation and the US Agency for International Development, the Bunkers Hill Cultural Xperience, relies on the resources of the Bunkers Hill community and its surrounding hamlets for sustenance. Consequently, more than 90 per cent of its food; and 100 per cent of its human resources come from the community.

“We are going to need more support from the community,” Clover Gordon says, as the attraction, which recently received its permit from the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA); and is in the process of applying for an operating licence from the Jamaica Tourist Board, prepares for its official opening to the public in July.

“At that time, we may be needing a 100 pounds of chicken, so they will need to increase supplies; therefore, if Jane don’t have, Mr Peter will have next week,” she explains.

The operation provides an employment and production boon for Bunkers Hill, giving its mainly farming constituents an additional source of income. It already employs 10 people part-time; and, with its upcoming launch and expansion, there will be need for additional cooks, tour guides, life guards and others.

For Kemar, who travels daily to work miles away in Hanover at the Tryall Club, it provides an income during the “off season,” when visitor bookings are low at the high-end resort and there is no employment for him.

“It’s good employment here,” he says. “It uplifts the community and give us work.”

However, more important to him and Alexander, another young male resident employed as a tour guide, it allows them to discover aspects of their community and its indigenous culture that were not well known to them.

For the Gordons, this historical introspection and cultural preservation is a primary objective of their Bunker’s Hill Cultural Xperience, which emerged to Mrs Gordon in a literal dream, some four years ago.

Beyond simply generating employment and economic activity in the community, the registration and inclusion of folk groups, such as the Deeside Cultural Group and the Wakefield Tambo Group, are essential to maintaining the cultural authenticity, which the Gordons want to sustain at Bunkers Hill Cultural Xperience.

Preserving and promoting cultural authenticity of the Bunkers Hill Cultural Xperience is the primary objective of the Gordons.

Jamaicans living overseas have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the Bunkers Hill Cultural Xperience by investing in the JN Bank Diaspora Certificate of Deposit, from which a percentage of the interest earned, will be matched and reinvested into businesses being nurtured by the Social Enterprise Boost Initiative by the JN Foundation.

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