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Director of Children and Family Programme of the Child Development Agency, Audrey Budhi (second right), speaks to residents of Yallahs about child care and protection issues, during a sensitisation ‘walk thru’ in St Thomas early this year. At right is Children’s Officer, Lorna Braham.

Child Protection Committee To Be Set Up In St. Thomas

A Child Protection Committee will be set up in St. Thomas, after a Town Hall meeting on Thursday, October 15 in the parish. The meeting, which begins at 4:00 p.m. at the New Testament Church of God in Yallahs, St,...

Manager of Public Relations and Administration at the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund, Hilary Coulton (right), hands over a cheque for $2 million to Principal of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), Dr. Nicholeen DeGrasse-Johnson. The funds, towards the staging of the 2015 Rex Nettleford Arts Conference, were presented today (October 5), at the college’s Arthur Wint Drive location in Kingston.

Edna Manley College Gets $4.9 Million for Rex Nettleford Arts Conference

Minister of Youth and Culture Hon. Lisa Hanna speaks about the importance of preserving Jamaica's intangible heritage at a recent Jamaica Information Service Think Thank held at the agency’s head office in Kingston.

Strides Made in Securing Oral Cultural Heritage – Minister

Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr. Cliff Riley, addresses a SRC-sponsored public forum at the St. Ann’s Bay Parish Library on Wednesday, September 30 under the theme: ‘Grow Jamaica…Protect Jamaica.’

SRC Urges Jamaicans to Come Forward with Creative Ideas

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, and Prime Minister of Japan, His Excellency Mr. Shinzo Abe, look at LP vinyl records on display during a tour of the Bob Marley Museum on Hope Road in Kingston on Wednesday (September 30), during his one-day official visit to the country.

Prime Ministers Tour Bob Marley Museum

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Argentina to Support Jamaica’s move for Inscription of Reggae to UNESCO’s Culture List

Only four months after securing Jamaica’s first ever historic listing to UNESCO’s prestigious World Heritage List, with the Blue and John Crow Mountains, the Government of Jamaica is set to begin the process of safeguarding the island’s Reggae music. The Ministry of Youth and Culture is embracing the collective experiences of its Latin American counterpart, Argentina which successfully inscribed its...

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High Commission Hosts Special Tribute to Miss Lou

The Jamaican High Commission in London hosted a special tribute to the late cultural icon, Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley, OM, OJ, MBE, on October 9, as part of its activities to mark Black History Month. “Miss Lou has had a very profound impact on Jamaica and Jamaicans across the world,” said Jamaica’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Her Excellency, Aloun...

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Festival Queen Launches Educational Tours of Blue and John Crow Mountains

Over 60 students from Corporate Area high schools will benefit from a heritage project being undertaken by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) 2015 Festival Queen for Kingston and St. Andrew, Michelle Thomas. Dubbed ‘#TOURSBJCM,’ the project focuses on creating awareness and appreciation of Jamaica’s first World Heritage Site, the Blue and John Crow Mountains, through educational tours. The students,...

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Jamaicans to Observe 150th Anniversary of the Morant Bay Uprising on October 11th

The Ministry of Youth and Culture has partnered with the St Thomas 150th Planning Committee to host the 150th Anniversary of the Morant Bay Uprising, this Sunday, October 11, 2015. Hundreds of residents from communities in St Thomas are expected to participate in the Paul Bogle and Martyrs March from Stony Gut, birth place of National Hero, the Right Excellent...

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CDA Begins Consultations to Deal with Bullying

The Child Development Agency (CDA) has initiated discussions with several stakeholders in the child protection sector, to develop a system to deal with the issue of bullying in schools. Following a report released by the CDA in August of this year titled, ‘Investigating the Prevalence and Impact of Peer Abuse (Bullying)’, the agency has assembled a working group to design...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon Portia Simpson Miller, applauds the announcement of additional support to Jamaica by Prime Minister of Japan, His Excellency Mr. Shinzo Abe. Occasion was a joint presentation by the leaders after a bilateral meeting at Jamaica House on September 30.

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Japan Providing $57 Million Grant for Improvements at IOJ

The Government of Japan is providing $57 million in grant funding to Jamaica for improvements at the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), including the procurement of audiovisual equipment and upgrading of exhibitions. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, and her Japanese counterpart, His Excellency Mr. Shinzo Abe, signed the funding agreement on Wednesday (September 30) at Jamaica House following...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, addresses JIS ‘Think Tank’, on September 29.

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No Building on World Heritage Site

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says no one will be allowed to put up any building in the Blue and John Crow Mountains, which has been designated Jamaica’s first World Heritage Site and the Caribbean’s first World Heritage Mixed (cultural and natural value) Site. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on September 29, the Minister made it...