Fayan Fisher has been Gore Development Limited’s Clarice May Gore Memorial Scholar at The Mico University College since 2014. A keen advocate and enthusiast of early childhood education, Fisher is determined to take complete advantage of her scholarship and pursue her chosen discipline to the fullest extent. Fisher’s achievements so far have not been accomplished without personal struggle and sacrifice.…
Play & Stay Tennis was developed and is administered by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The equipment – lightweight racquets and colourful tennis balls – are specially designed by the ITF for young children to use with ease and to enjoy the game from the first lesson. Play & Stay is recognised worldwide and each country’s national tennis association’s programme…
Helping Hands is Karl’s Hale’s” ‘baby’; now resident in Canada, Karl is a steadfast friend to the Gore Family Foundation (GFF) (via the tennis connection) and Jamaica, as he is directly involved with Volunteer Tourism too. Through Helping Hands’ kind donation, GFF is the recipient of Cdn$15,000, to be used to fund the ‘Reach Up and Learn Programme’. Headed up…
The 2016-2017 Nadine Isaacs Memorial scholars are: Miss Ashley Williamson and Mr. Andre Purge. Both students are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies at UTECH. The memorial scholarship’s namesake, Everyl Nadine Isaacs, B. Arch, Dip. Bldg. Science, FJIA, was born in Jamaica in 1942 to Ivy and Wills Isaacs and was forever and always known as ‘Nadine Isaacs’. She…
The Gore Family Foundation (GFF) in collaboration with Mrs. Neadene Tufton formed a KPH Support Team in September and the initiative has already reaped rewards with the timely arrival and delivery of a laparoscopy machine, which was ‘stranded’ in Barbados, having been donated to KPH by Arbutus Medical Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Arbutus Medical works with surgeons around the…
Back-to-School in September for the children of Chetolah Park Primary, Sandhurst Early Childhood, Mission Hall Methodist and St Anne’s Infant schools proved to be much more fun than usual. The principals at all four schools were approached by the Gore Family Foundation (GFF), regarding Play & Stay Tennis lessons for the young students and as the new term began, and…
VOUCH Sylvia Foote, one of the Gore Family Foundation’s (GFF) basic schools under its wing, is the latest recipient of the GFF’s concerted effort to upgrade the necessary infrastructure and give the school a ‘lift’. The GFF team was keen to get repairs going on the many “lapses” and gaping holes in the perimeter fence, which posed a security problem…
Jamaica College has launched a new and exciting course into their 5th and 6th Forms’ curriculum – Construction Project Management. The brainchild of Gore Developments Limited (GDL) with administrative input from the Gore Family Foundation’s team, Phillip Gore’s Alma Mater, Jamaica College (JC) has commenced providing 14 select students with the ‘ins and outs’ of construction project management – a…
Christine Gore, Director of the Gore Family Foundation (GFF) took pleasure in officially handing over the Tennis Course & Development Manual for P.E. Teachers to Mr. John Bailey, Tennis Jamaica’s current President. The manual prepared by Mr. Douglas Burke, former Davis Cup Captain for Jamaica, National Coach/Tennis Director, (1994-2010) and 2013 recipient of Tennis Canada’s‘ Coaching Excellence Award, is a…
Ex-Jamaica College student, Mr. Kuti Ra, graduated from Hillel Academy’s International Baccalaureate (IB) 2-year Diploma Programme for High School Seniors on Thursday, May 26. With 16 CXC passes already under his belt (yes, 16 with 8 distinctions!), the young man was deemed the perfect candidate to benefit from the rich academic experience of Hillel Academy’s IB programme, and he didn’t…