Posts Categorized: Philanthropy

Negril Itinerant Vendors Association Luncheon

Photo Caption: There was a vibrant community spirit at Negril Itinerant Vendors Association Luncheon on Wednesday, February 27. The luncheon was held to raide funds to build a market facility for vendors in that area. Special guest speaker was Tourism…
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LSE students help Jamaica

Groups and individuals from all over the world are looking at ways of assisting with the improvement of Jamaica’s education system. Not the least of these are students at the London School of Economics (LSE). Called “Educate the Children Fund…
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New scholarship fund opened for Jamaican students

A Holy Cross/Jamaica scholarship is to be offered once every four years to a less privileged Jamaican student attending one of the Jesuit High Schools, St. Georges’ College or Campion College. The primary intent in the establishment of the scholarship…
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First Joe Issa Scholarship to Campion boy

Lannois Asser Carrol-Woolery of Campion College, Kingston, is the first recipient of the Joe Issa Holy Cross/Jamaica Scholarship. The scholarship was officially launched yesterday by Senator Carlyle Dunkley, Minister of Education, at a luncheon at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New…
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Primary Textbook Project

Production and Distribution The printing of 2.7 million primary texts in English and Mathematics was completed on Sunday, 9th August in a period of ten weeks from 1st June, 1987. Putting covers on these texts, which is done by our…
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News from U.K. Gleaner Educating Jamaica

Joseph Issa’s children fund aids schools back home Dotted around the world right now, in places like the United States and Great Britain, are the young people who will eventually inherit Jamaica. There’s more than a handful of them, mostly…
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