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• Chameleon Designs Creates Jewelry From Recycled Local Materials

  23 May 2011 by Karin in Entrepreneurs,Jewelry [ 1 comment ]

  YardEdge is happy to profile a local entrepreneur and jewelry designer, Erica Licht, creator of Chameleon Designs, who uses recycled local materials to design her line of unique jewelry and accessories. Here's what Erica Licht creator of Chameleon Designs had to ...

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• Area Youth Foundation Trains Youth on Starting Their Own Businesses

  20 May 2011 by Karin in Entrepreneurs [ 15 comments ]

  [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="570" caption="Sheila Graham, Executive Director of AYF and AYF members at Tapioca  Village, St. Mary"][/caption] The Area Youth Foundation (AYF) recently took thirty young men and women from the inner city to Tapioca Village in St. Mary for ...

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• YardEdge Talks to Heneka Watkis, Creator of Patwa Apparel

  6 May 2011 by Karin in Entrepreneurs,Fashion [ 6 comments ]

    Heneka Watkis is CEO and Director of Marketing for a new Jamaican line, Patwa Apparel. YardEdge caught up with Heneka recently to find out what Patwa is all about... YardEdge: What is Patwa all about? Heneka: Patwa focuses on the richness and ...

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• Women Business Owners Launch “Building Women in Business” Project

  9 March 2011 by Karin in Entrepreneurs,Happening on the Edge 2011 [ no comments ]

  On Friday, March 11 Women Business Owners will be launching their "Building Women in Business" Project. The long-term objective of the project is to contribute to the growth and sustainability of women owned small and medium sized businesses in Jamaica. ...

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• Treading Lightly – YardEdge Talks To Giuliano Pignataro About Green Construction In Jamaica

  17 January 2011 by Karin in Entrepreneurs,Interviews [ 8 comments ]

  [caption id="attachment_11173" align="alignnone" width="570" caption="Treading Lightly Developments - Family Plan Rendering"][/caption] On a recent visit to Jamaica's south coast I sat down with Giuliano Pignataro to talk to him about his company, Treading Lightly Developments, and his "green construction" project in ...

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• New Tour Company Launches Cultural Tours of Jamaica Oct 30

  29 October 2010 by Karin in Art,Entrepreneurs,Happening on the Edge 2010 [ 2 comments ]

  [caption id="attachment_10137" align="alignnone" width="428" caption="A visit to the National Gallery of Jamaica"][/caption] Jamaica Cultural Enterprises (JCE) will launch its cultural tours of Jamaica on Saturday, October 30 at Grosvenor Galleries at 7 pm. The programme for the evening will include, - Information on ...

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• Jamaica Cultural Enterpises Launches Cultural Tours of Kingston

  10 October 2010 by Karin in Art,Entrepreneurs [ 1 comment ]

  [caption id="attachment_9973" align="alignnone" width="570" caption="A view of downtown Kingston's harbour front"][/caption] On October 30, entrepreneur Karen Hutchinson will be launching some exciting new products for Jamaicans as well as for visitors to our capital city. Via her company, Jamaica Cultural Enterprises, Karen ...

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• JamDeal, the eBay of Jamaica

  18 August 2010 by Karin in Entrepreneurs [ 3 comments ]

  For some time now I thought JamDeal, the online auction marketplace of Jamaica, was mostly about people selling their cars. I’m not sure why I thought that. I think I was interested in buying a car once and someone said I ...

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