Famous hosts Bogdanovich"s Christmas Party

Four prominent disc jockeys, special guest appearances, free shots of Hennessy, and a ‘rain or shine’ billing – things to remember come tomorrow. That’s the night Portmore, St Catherine’s, Famous Nightclub and Downsound Records’ Joe Bogdanovich team up to present ‘Blitz – The Ultimate Black-Tie Xmas Event’.

With the likes of Flava Unit, ZJ Chrome, Tony Matterhorn, and ZJ Liquid set to play at the event, Bogdanovich promises a night “worthy of the ‘mecca of Dancehall"”. According to the seasoned promoter, Famous will fully be decked out to fit the theme of the event.

“We’re installing a Christmas wonderland inside the club. It’s going to be fantastic, and we’re building additional deck space for that night,” he said.

The promoter was tight-lipped about which artistes are expected to perform at the event but did say that nobody should miss when host Miss Kitty takes the stage at 1 a.m.

“There are more surprises in store for patrons. In addition to the guest artistes, we will be having giveaways and prizes, thanks to our partners,” Bogdanovich said.

One of these surprises, he shared, would be free shots of Hennessey and flutes of champagne for random party-goers starting at 1 a.m.

“It’s really a night you can’t afford to miss if you are someone who loves to enjoy himself. It’s going to be the event of the season, and everyone is invited to come and see why,” he said.

At 11,000 sq ft, Famous nightclub is the largest club in the Caribbean. Dubbed the ‘Mecca of Dancehall’, Famous has welcomed more than 250,000 people to its dance floor as it hosts weekly themed events, DJ clashes, concerts, and more.

The club is wholly owned by the KLE Group, which also operates the Usain Bolt Tracks & Records restaurant. KLE, in a partnership with Sagicor, is also developing a lifestyle-themed villa community named Bessa, to be built on eight acres of beautiful ocean and river-front property.

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Popcaan"s sister hosts sex advice programme

Popcaan’s sister, Squid (left) and Danieshka. – Contributed

Squid, more popularly known as Popcaan’s big sister, is one of the new presenters for Suncity radio 104.9 FM first late night interactive radio talk show that will give advice on sex and relationships.

“This one-hour programme will be hosted by newcomers Danieshka and Squid, and was produced after the many request of listeners,” shared Steve Billings, chairman of Suncity 104.9 FM.

Like many relationship talk shows, ‘Naughty Talk’ will concentrate on topics such as cheating, meeting the parents, spicing up your sex life and much more.

The first programme aired featured the sultry dancehall artiste Danielle DI.

Danieshka, one of the presenters of the programme added, “The reception towards the first airing was amazing. the feedback from callers and even on social media made it clear that this programme was needed to spice up everyone’s Thursday night”.

Suncity 104.9 FM is the only radio station in Jamaica to have all themed days and as such ‘Naughty Talk’ airs on Lovers’ Thursday from 10 to 11 p.m.

“It is very important for radio in Jamaica to keep reinventing itself; ‘Naughty Talk’ is an unbiased show that does not discriminate against any race, social class, or lifestyle and that’s one of the reasons it’s so interesting to listen to,” shared Billings.

‘Naughty Talk’ will feature other guests such as D’Angel and the comical LA Lewis, just to name a few.

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Health minister hosts JAHJAH

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 | 7:53 AM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson will on Wednesday host members of the group Jamaicans Abroad Helping Jamaicans At Home (JAHJAH) at a reception at the Mona Visitors Lodge on the University of the West Indies campus.

The group is staging its first Annual Paediatric Cancer Conference at the venue. 

This cocktail reception is in support of the collaboration between the Bustamante Hospital for Children and the New York Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. It is also in an effort to share ideas to improve the care and treatment of paediatric cancer.

JAHJAH Foundation is a nonpartisan organisation founded in March 2011 for “the advancement of Jamaicans living in Jamaica with the help of Jamaicans and friends of Jamaica throughout the globe”. 

Current JAHJAH director is Dr Trevor Dixon, who is also the founder.

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Observer hosts Home Again premiere

Entertainment

Thursday, September 12, 2013

HOME Again, a film about the challenges of the Jamaican deportee, premieres at the Carib Cinema in Cross Roads on Monday.The event, which will be hosted by the Jamaica Observer, starts at 8:00 pm.Members of the cast (actors Paul Campbell, Lyriq Bent, Brian Brown, and Kadeem Wilson), producer/writer Jennifer Holness and supervising producer Lisa Wickham are expected to attend.Filmed in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Canada on a US$4- million budget, Home Again’s plot surrounds three persons deported from Canada, the United States and England to Jamaica, the land of their birth.The movie is co-written by Holness, a Jamaican, and Canadian-Jamaican David ‘Sudz’ Sutherland, who is also the director. Home Again premiered at the Toronto International Festival last year.It also stars Tatyana Ali, best known for her role as Ashley on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Ali has Trinidadian roots.Campbell, whose credits include the films Dancehall Queen and Third World Cop plays Uncle Archie Morris. Guyana-born actress C C H Pounder, Canadian singer FeFe Dobson and Stephan James complete the main cast.Home Again won the 2013 BAFTA Festival Choice Award at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles in February.James and Dobson were nominated for best supporting actors at this year’s Canadian Screen Awards, while Sutherland was recently nominated for a best director award by the Directors Guild of Canada.Movie poster of Home Again (2012).

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DBJ hosts major venture capital conference September 9

MANAGING Director of the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) Milverton Reynolds is hoping that the venture capital conference — ‘Advancing innovation and entrepreneurship – Seeding Tomorrow’s Opportunities’ — on September 9 at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston will be “oversubscribed”.

Reynolds said the conference, which is part of the educational thrust about the Jamaica Venture Capital Programme (JVCP), launched in February this year as a partnership between the DBJ and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), will answer important questions in the minds of stakeholders at all levels.“In the last few years the DBJ has placed strategic focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). What we have been seeing is that, for a variety of reasons, access to finance continues to elude many of the SMEs that we would like to see in a position to access financing so that they can grow their business. This applies to not only established SMEs but also to young entrepreneurs who would like to establish themselves, but the access to financing keeps eluding them,” Reynolds told editors and reporters at the weekly Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange at the newspaper’s Beechwood Avenue offices in Kingston.“Some of the reasons for their inability to access funding relates to their business models; a lot of them don’t have the capability to put together a business plan so that they can go to the bank and access financing, some of them they are not registered or they don’t have an account,” he pointed out.Yesterday, Audrey Richards, project consultant with the Jamaica Venture Capital Programme, said the conference would expose participants to expertise from across the globe as well as those available locally.“We are bringing in a number of experts from different countries, mainly the United States, but included among them is Paul Ahlstrom, who is himself an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and he has been involved in the development of eco-systems in a number of countries and he surely recognises what is needed for entrepreneurs,” she said.From the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) persons will share in the knowledge from Susana Garcia-Robles, principal investment specialist for the MIF, which has participated in a number of venture capital and private equity investments across Latin America.In addition, the conference will benefit from the expertise of Cate Ambrose, who is head of the Latin American Venture Capital Association, which has members in Latin America and the Caribbean.“They have developed a scorecard which they use to rank venture capital markets in venture capital industries in all of these different countries. Jamaica currently doesn’t have a ranking, Trinidad and Tobago does. One of the things we want to be able to do is to be ranked on that scorecard to show where Jamaica is to the world. It is something that international investors would look to see so that is very important,” Richards noted.“We also have a number of local and other international presenters and fund managers, there are a number of companies, as well as individuals who have been involved in venture capital quietly. But what we have recognised is that there is a lot of interest, not just from corporate Jamaica but also institutions, because everybody now sees the need to diversify their portfolios because of the high percentage concentration in government of Jamaica securities that everybody is now seeking to diversify away from,” she added.The all-day affair, which officially kicks off at 8:30, will begin with registration at 7:30 and end at 8:30 that evening. It will be followed by a post conference networking reception.“It’s a very busy day, it’s a lot of information, and what it is we want at the end of the day that there is an understanding of not only the programme we are embarking on but what the market and the investors are saying, what other countries have done and what we need to be doing here in Jamaica,” Richards said.Following the conference, the DBJ will pull together a number of stakeholders to finalise the areas pinpointed for development, Richards told the Observer.“Based on that we will pull together a strategic plan to access funding,” she said.Participants in yesterday’s Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange (from left) Audrey Richards, project consultant for the Jamaica Venture Capital Programme; Milverton Reynolds, managing director of the Development Bank of Jamaica; Wayne Beecher, senior specialist at the Multilateral Investment Fund, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank; and Lisandra Rickards, entrepreneur development trainer at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship. (PHOTO: NAPHTALI JUNIOR)

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