Two first-time entrants are vying with two previous winners for the 2011 Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance and the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) Award for Environmental Conservation or Child Survival & Development.

Two St Mary projects – Jeffrey Town Farmers’ Association, 2006 winners of the Michael Manley Award, and Hampstead Water Supply Upgrade, 2007 EFJ Awardees – are joined by Portland’s “Managing Winnifred Beach for the Benefit of the Public” and Dallas Castle [Agro] Producers of St Andrew.

The Jeffrey Town Farmers are seeking to be the first repeat winners of either award, having served a mandatory four years as onlookers before being eligible for re-entry. Hampstead Water Supply Upgrade are contending only for the Michael Manley Award, as they again become eligible for the EFJ Award in 2012.

The winners of the Michael Manley Award will be presented with a $200,000 cash prize and a beautiful bronze resin trophy sculpted by Kay Sullivan. The EFJ Awardees will receive a $100,000 cash prize and a commemorative plaque. The prizewinners will be announced at the climax of the annual awards presentation at the Little Theatre on Emancipation Day, Monday August 1.

July 17, 2011

For further information, please contact Louis Marriott at 927 2288 or (mobile) 838 2421