KINGSTON, Jamaica -” A forum that outlines how to commercialize
your creative and cultural assets through a carefully crafted programme is one
that is truly needed,” this according to O’Neil Walters, CEO of the newly
formed Intellectual Property Mining Group (IPMG).
That forum will be
available come Wednesday, November 13. The event will focus on three key areas
of research, marketing and how to value your brand, under the theme ‘Create.
Protect. Earn.’
Presentations will be made by IP Research Specialist – Dean McKellar; Media/Marketing Specialist, O’Neil Walters and Marketing Specialist, Carole Beckford – all of whom will share in a case study style their experiences on how they have successfully managed and delivered winning projects throughout their careers while also showcasing influential current global trends.
The Forum will target creative
industry practitioners inclusive of officials in businesses that have among
their portfolio, sponsorship, marketing, public relations and communications
around segments of the Orange Economy.
Walters wants the forum
to seek to strengthen the capacity but also deepen the relationships with
persons who manage lifestyle personality brands/organizations in key areas of
sport, music and entertainment.
IPMG Team
Among the highlights of
the event will be a CEO Vision Lounge which will feature leaders of corporate organizations
who have had the experience and those who seek to know how “the present
landscape will shape how they integrate the creative elements of Jamaica into
their Corporate campaigns.”
The event will run from 3:00 to 6:00 pm and will include a business executives’ lyme (networking session) with one of IPMG’s clients, DJ Kurt Riley, who will provide entertainment. It is an all- inclusive event for just $10,000. We invite all to register interest and get listed at info@ignitionipmg.com
KINGSTON,
Jamaica – Over the next three to five years, Jamaican superstar athletes will
be involved in a series of global and international Games and Championships in
several disciplines. Football, Cricket, Track and Field, Netball, Basketball,
Swimming (diving) and Volleyball are just some of the sport that will see considerable
action.
Most, if
not all of the events, will take place out of the Caribbean region, which offers
an opportunity for the (Brand) Jamaica to strengthen and deepen its roots in
the global space.
From as long as 1948, Jamaican athletes have long established themselves as superstars and have continued to do so in traditional and non-traditional areas.
Yona Knight-Wisdom,
for example, just finished second in the 3 metres British Diving competition in
preparation for upcoming World Championships in South Korea (July) and European
Championship in Ukraine (August) all towards aiming for the 2020 Summer Olympic
Games, scheduled for Japan.
Yona Knight Wisdom
The Reggae
Girlz will take the field for the first time at this level on Sunday, June 9
against Brazil, in the FIFA Women’s World Cup. The Reggae Boyz are in the Gold
Cup as they look to campaign for the 2022 World Cup. There is a long list of
football competitions to take place in all age groups on the turf and even in
the sand.
Netball
heads to Liverpool this summer for what could be a great chance for the
Sunshine Girls to climb to number one.
In the last
quarter, track and field will dominate with the World Championships and will be
the first time since Osaka (2007) that Usain Bolt won’t be competing. We wait
to see what that will look, feel and sound like.
That summarizes
the outward events. And from all indications, the national federations along with
the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) have their work cut out for them.
JAMAICA
MUST BENEFIT
What of
incoming events though? And how will Jamaica benefit from earnings from the
global sport industry? Time for a sport agency of known skill and repute to
make this happen. We continue to skirt and dance around with the possibilities.
Time for
the upgraded version of Jamaica Sport to return – an agency with skills, resources
and the requisite financial backing to coordinate island sport tours, major and
targeted sport events with franchises, national and international teams and
personalities.
The following is a statement from Christopher Taylor
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Since my last run at the Grace/ISSA Boys and Girls Championship in March this year, I discovered I have an injury which requires me to seek extensive treatment. I have decided to undergo that treatment overseas along with recovery.
At the new facility
My focus
now is full recovery for the 2019/2020 track and field season.
Leading up
to “Champs” a lot of misinformation has been published and I want to use this
opportunity to clear the air.
There
was an incident with a teacher and members of the track team in December 2018
At
no time during that incident I made any physical contact with any teacher
The
incident was unfortunate and as the Captain of the track team at the time, I
acted in the most responsible way, which I believed helped to prevent any
further physical altercations
That said,
I am satisfied that I have served Calabar with distinction on and off the
track. I achieved a number of personal and professional goals while being a
student and I want to use this opportunity to thank my family, the entire
school family (past and present) and the Jamaican people at home and abroad.
Working out
While I am
overseas, along with my rehabilitation process, I will also be looking at
opportunities for tertiary education. As soon as more updates are available, my
team will communicate the progress made.
Bridgetown, Barbados – Former West Indies, fast bowler, Tino Best and former Captain, Jimmy Adams will lead two teams for a T-10 Charity match under the theme, Understanding Risk, Friday (May 31) in Barbados.
The match,
which is scheduled for the 3Ws Oval at the UWI, Cave Hill Campus is part of an
overall conference scheduled for the island May 27 to May 31.
Best, now a
cricket commentator, will lead a team that will include outstanding retired
Windies players, like Philo Wallace, Ridley Jacobs, Nixon McLean.
Adams,
Director of Cricket at Cricket West Indies, will lead a team that will have
among its line up Sylvester Joseph, Sherwin Campbell, Nikita Miller and Alick
Athanaze.
Four of
Barbados’ women’s team players, Keila Elliott, Pam Lavine, Reshelle Griffith
and Charlene Taitt will also share the spotlight. Elliott and Griffith will
play with Best; while Lavine and Taitt are on the team with Adams.
Best is
always happy to give back and he thinks “this initiative is worthy of support.”
And Adams agrees, that “any opportunity to unite the people of the region
through sport, is always a wonderful opportunity.”
The rest of the line up will include a mix of local players (currently playing
in the domestic competition) corporate executives and cricket enthusiasts.
The match
will begin at 5pm.
About the conference
Scheduled
just before the 2019 hurricane season begins, the Understanding Risk Caribbean
Conference aims to celebrate the Caribbean’s disaster resilience; identify gaps
that still exist; and galvanize governments, companies, and private citizens to
share information, innovations and lessons learned to address disaster risk.
Understanding
Risk is a global community of 8,000+ experts and practitioners active in the
creation, communication, and use of disaster risk information. The community
convenes every two years at UR Forums – five-day events that highlight
groundbreaking work, facilitate nontraditional partnerships, and showcase new
technical know-how in disaster risk identification. In the interim, regional
conferences like UR Caribbean are also held to galvanize localized efforts and
build regional capacity in the area of disaster risk assessment.
The
partners for this event are the World Bank Group, Caribbean Disaster Emergency
Management Agency (CDEMA); European Union, Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and Barbados.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Main Event
Entertainment Group Limited is partnering with the Special Projects Team from
the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), in a show of support for the
Reggae Girlz. The Lapathon/Breakfast Party Fundraiser slated for Saturday, May 18 at
the Jamaica College – Ashenheim Stadium.
The lapathon/breakfast
party is among one of the major activities to raise funds to support the
Reggae Girlz’ campaign as they continue to prepare for the June 7 –
July 7 Women’s World Cup.
While in Jamaica from
May 12 to 20, there will be a series of events on and off the field for the
team.
A member of the
Special Projects Team, Pat Garel, says “the campaign to the World Cup will get
a boost in Jamaica this week and we want as much support as we can for the
Girlz. We are hoping Jamaicans at home will see the significance and support
where they can.”
Fans are required to
contribute a small fee of J$1,500 and the event will combine the walk/run/wheel
and will have entertainment for all from 6am – 9am.
Participants are being
asked to wear their best and most appropriate Jamaican outfit
to come celebrate the Reggae Girlz. The team will make a brief
stop to thank the participants at the venue.
Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz will
play Panama in Kingston on Sunday, May 19 at 6pm at the National Stadium. This
will be the final home match before they head out for stops in Florida (USA),
Glasgow (Scotland) and then off to France.
Panama was the team
the Reggae Girlz defeated 4-2 on penalties (October
2018) to seal their spot for the World Cup. The return match is expected
to provide a thrilling encounter for fans in Kingston.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – On Saturday, May 4
when Kensington and Lucas Cricket Clubs take the field for a Junior Cup match;
the game will not only have an important result for defending champions,
Kensington, but will have an all-important historical context for the roles
these two sporting/cricketing clubs continue to play in the Rollington Town
community.
Kensington Cricket Club
The
cricket has been the core focus of the two clubs from as far back as 1879 and
1895 respectively; but when Kensington hosts its 140th year of
existence this October, the weekend event will seek to do a few things:
Identify
the role cricket has played in the community
Show
the impact all the great cricketers have had on the community, Jamaica, the
West Indies and the World
Help
to re-focus the community on how it can re-engage residents to continue the
path to growth and development
Lucas Cricket Club
Rollington
Town sits in the Eastern Kingston constituency and is surrounded by schools and
other inner-city communities all with similar characteristics – close knit
families; rich sporting history, once a quiet community, but now begs basic development
to include the necessities for a place to live, grow families and so business.
The accessories of the place, as it is, are not sufficient to transform the legacy
of a community with that much history and more.
CRICKET
Kensington
for instance has had outstanding personalities like JK Holt Jr, Chester Watson,
Alf Valentine, Lawrence Rowe, Herbert Chang, Richard Austin, Basil Williams,
Patrick Patterson, Uton Dowe, Robert Haynes, Laurie Williams, Wavell Hinds,
Darren Powell and David Bernard Jr.
Lucas
is the home of George Headley, Frank Worrell, Easton “Bull” McMorris, Everton
Mattis, Gareth Breese and Chris Gayle. The immeasurable impact these men have
had on cricket is what helps to consolidate the role of the game and how it may
help to influence the community and cricket for the next generation.
Since
2012, Lucas has been the base of the Chris Gayle Foundation, an organization
which has partnered with the England-based Cricket For Change. The resources
from the partnership have been used to train at-risk young people while guiding
them to become better employment prospects. Lucas is believed to have been the
first club in Jamaica to admit black players in the late 1920s.
SENIOR CUP
On
the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Senior Cup in Jamaica
(2007), Historian Arnold Betram wrote this about Kensington Cricket Club:
The
cricketers who registered Kensington Cricket Club in 1879 began as the St.
Andrew Juniors, a group of students of St. George’s College who left with their
headmaster, Father Jaeckel, to establish the Marie Villa School at 37 Duke
Street, in September 1877.
Among
these young cricketers were J.M. Burke, S.C. Cargill, Ernest DaCosta and Dr.
J.F. Cargill, who gave a part of his property in Camperdown for their playing
field. In 1881, the club moved to Emerald Park on North Street and Cosmo
Lorenzo Dicks succeeded E.G. Orrett as captain. The Dicks family owned a
property in St. Catherine called Kensington, hence the name change from St.
Andrew Juniors to Kensington.
Coming
into the competition, Kensington certainly had the most enthusiastic group of
cricketers, including two of the finest young cricketers in the island, J.J.
Cameron and G.V. Livingston.
In the two
decades preceding the start of Senior Cup Cricket in 1897, the record shows
that they played 202 matches, winning 125, losing 61 and drawing 16.
Kensington – 2019 Junior Cup Squad
Wavell
Hinds captains and coaches Kensington’s Junior Cup Team. His twin sons Alex and
Corey play for this team (both attend Wolmer’s). He is surrounded by a set of
youngsters all aimed at balancing their lives on and off the pitch.
While
Lucas will look to Brandon English, Shane Ricketts and Jaheem Rankine for
leadership for this league.
The 10 am match on Saturday, May 4 should deliver on its promises of an exciting match-up; and should spark an interesting conversation concerning the clubs’ history.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz will play
Panama in Kingston on Sunday, May 19 at 7pm at the National Stadium. This will
be the final home match before they head out to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in
France, June 7 to July 7.
The team
has international friendlies in Florida (May 21 – 24) and Scotland (May 28) en
route to France.
Panama was
the team the Reggae Girlz defeated 4-2 on penalties (October 2018) to seal
their spot for the World Cup. The return match is expected to provide a
thrilling encounter for fans in Kingston.
While in
Jamaica from May 12 to 20, there will be a series of events on and off the
field for the team.
The Special Projects Team will be hosting a fundraising lapathon at the Jamaica College Ashenheim Stadium on Saturday, May 18 beginning at 6:30 am.
A member of
the Special Projects Team, Pat Garel, says “the event is aimed at raising
well-needed funds to off-set some of the costs associated with ensuring the
team has all the resources needed for a secure journey onward and during the World
Cup. We see this as an important event for the Jamaican fans and the Girlz.”
Fans are required to contribute a small fee of J$1,500 and the event will combine the walk/run and will have entertainment for all from 6:00 – 9:30 am
Participants
are being asked to wear their best and most appropriate Jamaican outfit to come
celebrate the Reggae Girlz. The team, which will have a training session that
Saturday, will make a short pit stop at the venue to say thanks.
