Government of Jamaica
Kingston, 19 January 2021 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange has proposed an ambitious agenda to the new Board of the Creative Production and Training Centre. At the first meeting of the new Board recently, Minister Grange challenged members to modernise and transform…
Kingston, 18 January 2021 - The Minister of Culture,Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has said she is saddened by the passing of the Reverend Father Easton Lee. The Reverend Father Lee, who was born in Wait-a-Bit, Trelawny, died in Florida in the United States this morning at…
Kingston, 12 January 2021 (JIS) - Reggae Month 2021 activities, to be observed in February, have been moved to the virtual space. The month-long celebration, being held under the theme ‘Come Ketch Di Riddim Virtually’, is expected to draws thousands of patrons globally to Jamaica, from locations as far as…
Kingston, 5 January 2021 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has said that with the passing of Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, Jamaica and the Caribbean have not only lost an entrepreneur extraordinaire but a man who demonstrated deep care for his country. “He was…
Kingston, 5 January 2021 – The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport has gifted a bus to the Accompong Maroons to assist with transport challenges being faced by members of the historic community. The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, handed over the vehicle…
Kingston, 24 December 2020 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has welcomed the proclamation of December 27 as Sam Sharpe Day by the Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen. Sir Patrick made the proclamation on Tuesday. The first annual Sam…
Kingston, 21 December 2020 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, will be joined by Member of Parliament and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Honourable Floyd Green, to pay floral tribute at the Zong Monument in Black River, St Elizabeth, on Tuesday, December…
Kingston, 18 December 2020 – Declaring that the meeting had “done what no other session of the Intergovernmental Committee has accomplished before,” the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, brought an end to the deliberations of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee. Minister Grange had…
Kingston, 14 December 2020 – More than 700 participants from 130 countries are registered to participate in the meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage being chaired by the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange. The meeting which will run from…
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Kingston, 13 December 2020 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, will chair the meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. The meeting from tomorrow (Monday, December 14) to Saturday, December 19 is being held online because of the ongoing…
Kingston, 2 December 2020 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has said that Jamaica is supporting the call for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to be a “Global Priority” in the next Medium Term Strategy of UNESCO. Minister Grange, as leader of Jamaica’s…
Kingston, 15 November 2020 (JIS) - Late Reggae singer and cultural icon, Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, joins a select list of distinguished Jamaicans who have been laid to rest within the hallowed walls of the National Heroes Park in Kingston. He died at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI)…
Kingston, 9 November 2020 (JIS) - The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport is moving to retrieve precolonial indigenous sculptures being housed at the British Museum in the United Kingdom (UK). These are Taino wooden sculptures – the ‘Boinayel figures’ and ‘Birdman’. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport,…