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CPJ disburses $1.5 million in scholarships

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Caribbean Producers Jamaica (CPJ) on Tuesday awarded $1.5 million in scholarships to 49 students who are children of employees at the company. The recipients were selected on the basis of their attaining and maintaining an above 74 percent average during the last school year at the primary and secondary [...]

CPJ disburses $2 million in scholarships

Caribbean Producers Jamaica executives Mark Hart (back row, left) and Dr. David Lowe (right) with the high school and tertiary scholarship recipients at the presentation exercise, held last Friday at the company’s Montego Freeport offices. (Photo: Philp Lemonte) MONTEGO BAY, St James — CARIBBEAN Producers Jamaica (CPJ) last week awarded $2 million in scholarships to [...]

Royal Ballet’s Fernando Montano For Hanover Grange

Photo: Fernando Montano The Jamaica-born United Kingdom based philanthropist Theresa Roberts will open her Hanover Grange home at the exclusive Tryall Club for a night tagged 'Swan Lake' with renowned soloist Fernando Montano. The invitation-only event, set for Wednesday, August 10, is Roberts' way of giving back to Jamaica during a month-long celebration of her [...]

Mark Hart: Deepening a family tradition with CPJ

    Caribbean Producers Jamaica Ltd Executive Chairman Mark Hart stands outside the entrance to the company in Montego Bay. Below is the story on one of the nominees for this year's Jamaica Observer Business Leader Award. All the nominees are drawn from the list of entrepreneurs who have listed their companies on the Junior [...]

2013 CPJ Scholarship Awards

MONTEGO BAY (ST.JAMES) - Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited, the national leader in food-service distribution was pleased to award 31 dedicated and exemplary students with over J$1,000,000.00 in scholarships through the annual CPJ Scholarship Programme held on Monday August 19, 2013. This year's recipients earned scholarships for their exceptional academic achievements displayed in their 2012-2013 academic [...]

Junior Achievement Jamaica Changing Lives

  Jamaica-born actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (right) and American actress and comedian Kim Whitley share a light moment with Ambassador Stephen Vasciannie at Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's reception at the Jamaican embassy in Washington recently. - Contributed Seventeen-year-old Martin Jarrett of Charlemont High School in St Catherine says his life has been transformed by the [...]

Pour In The Eggs – New Boost For Nutri-Buns In School-Feeding Programme Come September

  A worker at the liquid eggs plant at CPJ headquarters in Montego Bay, St James. - Contributed The long-announced plan to introduce liquid eggs as a substitute for imported butter oil in the making of nutri-buns for the school-feeding programme is set to be rolled out at the start of the next school year. [...]

CPJ disburses $1m in scholarships

Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited (CPJ) directors (from right, back row) Mark Hart, Jan Polack and Tom Tyler pose with scholarship recipients at the awards functions last week. MONTEGO BAY, St James - Twenty-eight students who are the children of employees of Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited (CPJ), were awarded scholarships by the company totalling just over [...]