Partnered and Proud

Bjorn Burke, Staff Reporter

The Gleaner Company is proud to have partnered with its sponsors for the 180th anniversary ‘Fit for 180, Fit for life 5k Walk/Run’, as it looks forward to the charity event scheduled for September 13.

“Naturally, Wisynco, through its brands of Wata, ‘Tru Juice’, and Nature Valley, supports healthy events and events that promote good health and good healthy lifestyles,” said Jermaine Brown, sponsorship manager at Wisynco.

Brown further expressed the pleasure the Wisynco group has in associating with ‘a premium partner’ such as The Gleaner, for a charity-related event which enticed the company to come on board as a sponsor.

fitting partnership

“Working with a partner like The Gleaner – we always look at their initiatives, they invited us to come on board, and we thought it was very fitting,” noted Tina Matalon, marketing director of Restaurants of Jamaica Limited.

“KFC Jamaica with its new ‘heartilicious’ salad platform is proud to be a sponsor of The Gleaner’s 5K Run in celebration of the newspaper’s 180th Anniversary Celebration,” said Trina Lowe, marketing manager at Restaurants of Jamaica. “As a good corporate citizen providing support and donations to hundreds of charities across the island as well as continued dedication to youth development in many areas, including sports and education, we are proud to sponsor this great Gleaner initiative in their support of Peace and Love in Society (PALS) and other outstanding social intervention programmes.

Newspaper giant

We congratulate The Gleaner Company on its history as the watchdog of our society and for being recognised throughout the Caribbean as a giant among newspapers.”

The event is expected to kick off with warm-up sessions, with Spartan Health Club’s Steve Ming at 6 a.m. The run/walk will commence at 6:30 a.m. at The Gleaner’s main entrance on North Street, downtown Kingston.

In addition to Wisynco and Restaurants of Jamaica, other sponsors include Power 106, Television Jamaica, Sun City Radio, Tru-Juice, Nature Valley, Digicel, Jamaica Producers and SportsMax.

The first 1,000 entrants will receive limited edition Gleaner 180 memorabilia. The event will also offer prizes of $20,000 gift vouchers, trophies for outstanding performers, as well as an award offered to the oldest competitor.

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Sharing a proud moment

The Caribbean Maritime Institute, in asociation with the University of Technology, and EdgeChem Jamaica Ltd, graduated the first batch of trainees from the Innovative Automotive Painting Programme last week. Here Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, minister of state for industry, investment and commerce (third left) makes a point to Dr Fritz Pinnock (second right), executive director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute. Others sharing in the occasion are (from left) William McLeod, chairman of EdgeChem Jamaica, Martin Joseph, the runner-up, Orville Francis, who placed first, and Professor Gossett Oliver, vice president, Graduate Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship at the University of Technology.

(PHOTO: MICHAEL GORDON)

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"I want to make Jamaica proud," — Tuffy

PANAMA CITY, Panama — There is no stopping Jermaine ‘Tuffy’ Anderson, it seems.

He was the footballer who Jamaican fans staged multiple protests at different points across the island, as they tried to force the hand of then head coach Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore to select him for the ongoing CONCACAF World Cup qualifying campaign.Despite the pressure, Whitmore, a hero of Jamaica’s football, did not budge even as the Reggae Boyz campaign spiralled down.In Whitmore’s eyes, ‘Tuffy’ was just not his man despite the latter holding the honour of being the top striker in the land.But Anderson was determined to play for his country again after being snubbed following his participation in the Caribbean Cup in Antigua and Barbuda, last December.With the arrival of a new coach Winfried Schafer after Whitmore quit, things started to look up for the Waterhouse frontman and crowd favourite.“That’s how life goes, maybe that coach (Whitmore) just didn’t feel he wanted me in his team, but this coach comes and sees something in me and he has given me some good vibes so far… and I have been working hard in training, and not because I am 34, I give my best and I have been running hard. Right now I just want to go out there and just do my best and make Jamaica proud of me,” Anderson told the Jamaica Observer during an interview aboard a charter that took the Boyz here for their World Cup qualifier against hosts Panama.Anderson, who has been in and out of the Jamaica set-up but still waiting for that moment to make his mark, says he is eager to make the best of this chance at redemption.“I have always wanted to do good things for my country, as country comes first, so really and truly I want to be out there. It’s not so much that people were crying for me, it’s more that those people saw what ‘Tuffy’ can do for the country.“But now that I get another look in with the team, I am just going to be focused and do my best for my country, whether I get five minutes or 10 minutes on the field,” said the irrepressible Montego Bay native.He spoke of Jamaica’s do-or-die matchup against Panama tonight in a manner and tone as if he expects to get a chance to play. But that’s ‘Tuffy’, always eager to have a go for either club or country.“This game against Panama is going to be a hard fight for Jamaica. And in training today (yesterday), I would really like to talk to the players because so far I have been getting a nice vibe and we now need this Jamaican team to go out there and give 110 per cent… but we are Jamaicans and we know what we can do and we have to just go out there and fight,” he said.Jermaine ‘Tuffy’ Anderson heads towards the team bus ater exiting the arrival terminal in Panama City, Panama, yesterday.Members of the Reggae Boyz team arrive at their hotel in Panama City, Panama, yesterday. (PHOTOS: JOSEPH WELLINGTON)

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Sport

Picture of the dayWednesday, August 14, 2013

Dr Warren Blake (left), President of the JAAA, and Natalie Neita-Headley, minister with responsibility for sports, pose with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce after the women’s 100m Medal Ceremony inside the Luzhniki Stadium yesterday.(PHOTO: GARFIELD ROBINSON)

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