The 18th staging of Emancipation Jubilee will be held on the grounds of the historic Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann, on Thursday, July 31. The annual jubilee is a major national celebration organised by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), in honour of the African ancestors and their contribution towards the free society that Jamaicans now enjoy. Activities begin...

The Ministry of Youth and Culture has partnered with the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment to give Jamaican families an opportunity to experience dozens of hotels, sites and attractions at discounted rates on National Family Day, August 2, 2014. The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Honourable Lisa Hanna, MP who announced Family Day as one of the features of...

Jamaica Festival will this evening roll into the parishes of St. Mary, Portland and St. Ann as Live Music Tuesdays gets into high gear. As part of the redesigned Jamaica Festival programme, Live Music Tuesdays aims to develop live band music across the island, through the unearthing and showcasing of what is popularly known as ‘duppy bands’.    ‘Duppy bands’ typically...

The National Finals of the Jamaica Gospel Song Competition will be held on Sunday, July 27 at 7:00 p.m., at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre, under the theme: ‘Moving Forward’. Subject Specialist for Gospel and Church Services at the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Leighton Jones, said final preparations for the show are in high gear. “We’re doing well, the...

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, MP has received a Jamaican ‘cyas’ drum used in the Kumina religion, which had been in the United States for a quarter of a century. The drum which belonged to the late Kumina leader Imogene ‘Queenie’ Kennedy had been in the possession of the Smithsonian Institute’s Director of Cultural Heritage...

Plans are underway to modernize and expand the National Gallery of Jamaica, which is the largest art gallery in the English-speaking Caribbean. The 30,000 square feet gallery, located on the Kingston waterfront, houses both permanent and temporary exhibitions. Speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank, held at the agency’s headquarters in Kingston, Executive Director, Dr. Veerle Poupeye,...

The electronic version of ‘Gold Anthology’, a collection of gold medal winning short stories from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Festival was launched on July 22. This collection, which was launched in book format in November last year, features top entries from 1999 and 2006, with contributions from Dionne Jackson Miller, Rudolph Wallace, Michael Record and Carroll Edwards, among...