Jamaica Made – Schooltonz

A good business idea can come at any time and from just about anywhere. For many they start out as a pastime, a special skill, or a hobby they picked up that eventually metamorphized into an entrepreneurial pursuit. This last sentence describes the early beginnings of Makeda Morrison’s ‘Copper and Thread’ crochet design business.

Second year law student Ree-Anna Robinson flew the Jamaican flag high in New York at the United Nations where she made the case for more to be done for the education and mental health needs of the nation's youth.

There’s a popular saying that goes ‘In every crisis there’s an opportunity’. And on this week’s Jamaica Made we hear the story of Levian Sharpe and how in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic she started her own skincare product line called Vilahks.