Purdy's Macadamia Nut Farm is a family-run enterprise that gives hourly tours (Mon-Sat).

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Alexander was a colonel in Grenada where, with loans from brothers John and William (the family was a mini-enterprise in itself), he bought a slave plantation and called it Westerhall.

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Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.

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Gerard Pantin, a Roman Catholic priest and Mr. Wes Hall, a Barbadian cricketer, to establish SERVOL. Since then, SERVOL has been implementing intergenerational, family and community-based life and vocational skills training, enterprise development, psychosocial counselling, educational and empowerment projects in disadvantaged and marginalised urban and rural communities.

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