{"id":142,"date":"2009-06-30T20:08:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyanalive.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-06-17T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:36:19","slug":"jamzone-summer-break-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Jamzone Summer Break Weekend Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Busy, Machel, Karma Band confirmed for Jamzone<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pageant to spotlight climate change, low Carbon initiative\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlans are accelerating and promises much Caribbean spices that cater to entertainment seekers at all levels.\u00a0 Promoters HITS &amp; JAMS are reporting that they have secured several international acts to offer live performances at the Guyana National Stadium and the Splashmins Fun-Park.<\/p>\n<p>From a private national perspective the Hits and Jams Promotions group notes\u00a0 \u201cthe idea of making the event into a four day affair was birthed after a meeting with President Bharrat Jagdeo earlier in the year that included promoters as well as officials from the private sector, airlines and Corporate Guyana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director Rawle Fergusson said \u201cin previous years, our one day event, Jamzone has been on the National tourism calendar but following the meeting with President Bharrat\u00a0 Jagdeo we have upped it to four days with much more on the entertainment\/leisure platter for domestic and international tourists.\u201d<br \/>\nThe final day will be at the resort in the form of a grand beach party with all the major offerings in sports, aquatic and leisure entertainment and will conclude with the crowning of the 9th Miss Jamzone Queen.<\/p>\n<p>Director Kerwin Bollers explaining the four day concept said the three additional nights will be memorable and will boost international leisure seekers interest and over time could see more tourists flocking to Guyana like they do for other Summer Fest, internationally.<br \/>\nPresident Bharrat Jagdeo had encouraged those at the meeting to create and promote events that can be used as a tourism attraction to the local shores.<br \/>\nBollers said the environment, preserving Guyana\u2019s standing forest and climate change will be among our main focus for the pageant where the delegates will be tasked with creating costumes with various message. They will also have to research those topics for presentation. So far more than 75 applications have been distributed and the promoters are asking that those who still have forms in their possession to fill them out and return them on or before July 3.<\/p>\n<p>Mega Entertainment guaranteed for Jamzone summer Break Weekend Fergusson says as momentum builds HITS and JAMS in its quest to offer mega concerts like those experienced for CARIFESTA the group is pursuing several contracts with some major artistes. \u201cAlready we have secured contracts with Caribbean soca sensation Machel Montano and Jamaican dancehall artiste Busy Signal as well as Karma the number one chutney band in the region,\u201d Ferguson said. He assures too that \u201cthis release of names is just the beginning of the proposed line up of artistes heading to the local shores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mondale Smith for Hits and Jams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information contact: Kerwin Bollers 227-0580<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy, Machel, Karma Band confirmed for Jamzone Pageant to spotlight climate change, low Carbon initiative\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Plans are accelerating and promises much Caribbean spices that cater to entertainment seekers at all levels.\u00a0 Promoters HITS &amp; JAMS are reporting that they have secured several international acts to offer live performances at the Guyana National Stadium and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/?p=142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jamzone Summer Break Weekend Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[442,702],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-hits-and-jams-entertainment","tag-jamzone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}