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Kingston, 20 April 2021 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has joined the celebration of Groundation Day on April 21. It commemorates the 1966 visit to Jamaica of Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, when hundreds of Rastafari from all over Jamaica descended…
Kingston, 14 April 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says Jamaica 60 will be used to “engage and motivate our people towards achieving our national objectives". Minister Grange was speaking during the ceremony to officially launch the Jamaica 60 programme of activities…
Kingston, 30 March 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced a public viewing of the remains of the late Reggae artiste Denroy Morgan on Friday, April 8, 2022 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at the National Indoor Sports Centre. The…
Kingston, 29 March 2022 - The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced that “the Jamaican colours — black, green and gold — will light up Niagara Falls in Canada on Independence Day. Minister Grange was launching Jamaica 60 in Canada at the Toronto…
Kingston, 25 March 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, is on official business in Canada. Minister Grange will on Saturday launch a series of activities in Toronto to celebrate Jamaica’s 60th anniversary of independence. The launch will take place at the Toronto…
MESSAGE BY THE HONOURABLE OLIVIA GRANGE, CD, MP MINISTER OF CULTURE, GENDER, ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE 25 March 2022 On this day, March 25, we pause in deep reflection, in memory of our ancestors who…
Kingston, 21 March 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has urged the National Council on Reparation to move quickly to finalise the national policy - the Roadmap to Reparation. Addressing members of the Council at a retreat on Saturday, Minister Grange congratulated…
Falmouth, Trelawny, 10 March 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has unveiled a monument in tribute to Violet Moss Brown, the Jamaican woman who during her long life was record holder for world’s Oldest Living Person and Oldest Living Woman. The monument,…
MESSAGE BY THE HONOURABLE OLIVIA GRANGE, CD, MP MINISTER OF CULTURE, GENDER, ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY 21 February 2022 International Mother Language Day affords us an opportunity to focus on Jamaican Language, our ‘Patwa’. Our Mother Language is the product of a complex and even painful…
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Kingston, 12 February 2022 - The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment, and Sport has said “time come” to exonerate Jamaica’s first National Hero, the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The Minister’s Statement follows “This month is Reggae Month, a powerful music of freedom, justice and transformation, heavily inspired by Garvey.…
Kingston, 28 January 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has described the late Producer, Director, Writer and Narrator, Carey Robinson, as a man who was “dedicated to the very end.” Mr Robinson was the producer and narrator of the television programme, Hill…
Kingston, 15 January 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says the Ministry’s ECCI Covid-19 Grants programme has been oversubscribed and has stopped taking new applications. “We anticipated about one thousand applications for the individual grants of $60,000 each to members of the…
Kingston, 4 January 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has paid tribute to the Chairman of the Council of the Institute of Jamaica, James Moss-Solomon. Minister’s Statement “We are deeply saddened at the passing of James Moss-Solomon, the Chairman of the Council…