After completing my College Degree at Emerson College with a BSc in Mass Communications
with an emphasis on film I returned to Jamaica and established a film production company,
Sovereign City Entertainment. By the early 90's we were independently producing a landmark
regional television series, Raceway. Raceway was the first television programme dedicated to
featuring motorsports on a regional level and was broadcast in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
and had a few episodes released in Barbados. We completed 2 full seasons of the programme.
In 2013, the company completed our first feature-film, Between Friends in Trinidad and Tobago.
The film went on to be nominated to numerous awards on the film festival circuit and copped a
win for Best Cinematography and one film festival event. The film was released in cinemas in
Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas in 2016. The film has subsequently enjoyed public
screenings and television broadcasts across the Caribbean region.
Since 2018, we have shifted our focus to assisting in establishing a viable, ethical and inclusive
cannabis industry in Jamaica and across the Caribbean region. The original intention was to
produce a documentary entitled, "Ganja, The Building of a Nation". Unfortunately, I quickly
realised, there was a stark lack of information and education within and on the industry and that
has become a significant hindrance to the progress of a viable and sustainable industry across
the region. We set out to rectify this with the establishment of the website,
www.ganjactivist.com. Ganjactivist.com is the backbone for an informational resource and the foundation for a television series, The Ganja Project for broadcast in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.Production of the series ceased in 2020 with the advent of the pandemic with the nationwide lockdown and travel restrictions. Acknowledging the need to establish a Jamaican voice in the global legal cannabis industry dialogue, we pivoted to virtual events and created the Ganjactivist.com Cannabis Conference & Expo series. We've held three editions of The Ganjactivist.com Cannabis Conference & Expo series and
have included webinars and workshops to our event and media output. We had the intention of hosting our inaugural in-person event this March, however the on-going pandemic has thwarted this and we are upgrading our virtual event for 2022 and will be introducing the first-ever, Caribbean Cannabis Summit as a hybrid event in April, 2022. While we still have every intention of producing the documentary, we continue to see the need to engage the Jamaican public through media and events. As such, in addition to our virtual and hybrid events for 2022, we will also be releasing the television series, The Ganja Project
(working title) later this year. The pandemic has changed us, but not our vision for a prolific
Jamaican and regional cannabis industry.