Caymanas Park is now recycling

CAYMANAS PARK AND RECYCLING PARTNERS OF JAMAICA JOIN FORCES TO CLEAN UP PORTMORE

Portmore, Jamaica – Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) and Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) have forged a strategic partnership towards fostering sustainable environmental practices at Caymanas Park and its environs. The agreement will see an official RPJ Drop Off location being set up at the iconic park in Gregory Park, St. Catherine, offering patrons and residents of the local community a convenient option to drop off their plastic bottles and preventing them from entering the environment.

Aswanda Stoddart, AVP Administration at SVREL was pleased with this most recent initiative to implement more eco-friendly practices at Caymanas Park. “As a key business in the area, we understand our role in contributing to the economic and environmental vitality of the community. We have been proactive in implementing sustainable development processes and this partnership with RPJ is our most recent initiative,” she said. “This new drop off location will give not only the hundreds of punters who visit the Park weekly an opportunity to practice responsible waste management but we’re also opening it up to the wider Gregory Park community with a view to influence behaviour and improve the general environmental practices in Jamaica.”

Last year, as part of its corporate social responsibility efforts, SVREL invested heavily into a solar energy project which saw over 3000 solar panels installed at a cost of US$4 million. The project is slated to generate 1.6MW across three phases, which will significantly reduce the Company’s carbon footprint.

Candice Ming, Marketing and Public Relartions Manager for Recycling Partners of Jamaica says the company is always thrilled when we are able to partner with influential entities, as it foreshadows a Jamaica where the corporate community has an active role in the protection and sustainability of the country’s environment. Caymanas Park has long been a stalwart in Jamaica’s sporting culture and to implement recycling at their facilities, with access to the wider Gregory Park area is the kind of growth Jamaica needs moving into 2024, as RPJ looks to collect more plastics and increase its production capacity. This partnership comes with an asset value of over one million Jamaican dollars. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with SVREL”.  

Both organizations look forward to the positive outcomes that this collaboration will yield, not only for their respective entities but also for the community and the environment at large. The partnership between Caymanas Park and Recycling Partners of Jamaica represents a unified effort towards building a sustainable future while demonstrating the power of collaboration in achieving meaningful change.

Contact: Chloleen Daley-Muschett

  Corporate Communication and PR Manager 

  Supreme Ventures Limited

  Chloleen.daley-muschett@svlgrp.com

  876-469-2192

Sport in Jamaica – at a critical cross road

SPORT LEADERSHIP NOW MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER

Jamaica’s Sporting Industry is at a critical crossroad on and off the field. As Jamaica approaches 75 years of work in the Summer Olympic Games, a major milestone, one must look strategically on the approach going forward. 

In the absence of a working national strategic plan for sport, leaders of the core sport, Football, Cricket, Track and Field, Netball, Basketball and Horse Racing must sit and work with experts to do a few things:

• Design a short, medium and long term plan for each of their sport and determine how they can collaborate for critical technical, financial and social programs 
• Develop a comprehensive commercial (money-making) plan to maximize the use of merchandise, memorabilia and events to keep established fans and win new ones 
• Influence curriculum and educational content for secondary and tertiary institutions 
• Explore the value of bilateral agreements to build capacity 
• Agitate for an incentive-based plan for infrastructure development 

Those five key points, if supported and worked on the five leading sporting disciplines could change the fortunes for Sport in Jamaica. 

Football being the most popular globally and dare I say Jamaica must be in a position to lead this charge; but while that is so, football leaders must show they can and/or work with those who can, to engage at the appropriate junctures for the industry to flourish. 

The current leaders with two members of their team should sit in a retreat (weekend); facilitated by an expert team (not more than three) to plot the path ahead. 

I am recommending this be done before the end of August this year (August 31 to September 3). Most of the major global competitions for those sports would have been completed by then. 

Following this, the plan should be presented to the Sports Development Foundation (SDF); the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Inter Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) and the Inter-Collegiate group for its buy-in and approval. 

The inter scholastic, collegiate and national programs of each of these sport would benefit greatly from this collaboration. 

The recommendation for the Facilitator is Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron and he will select his two support staff to undertake this venture. The retreat will be funded by each of the sport through equal contribution. 

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