" Ja Bio Plastics, a student-entrepreneur team from the University of the West Indies, has emerged as the winner of the National Business Model Competition (NBMC), securing a cash prize of J$2m and an all-expense paid trip to defend Jamaica’s 2018 global championship at the upcoming International Business Model Competition (IBMC) at the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah, United States.
The duo, comprising Jordon Freeman and Samantha Williams, made their winning presentation offering a natural, degradable and compactable alternative to single-use plastic to a panel of private-sector judges in the final round of the national competition last Friday, beating 14 other teams from four universities."
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Published on 03 May, 2019
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
