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The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) will be facilitating a month long training programme for participants from 20 Caribbean countries on how to safeguard their Underwater Cultural Heritage from new and emerging threats. The programme, sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), will start on Monday, November 5, in Port Royal, Jamaica’s best known underwater archaeological...

Scores of students are expected to participate in the annual Youth Forum, scheduled for Friday (November 2) at the St. Andrew Parish Church Hall, 16 Ellesmere Road.                 The event, organised by the National Child Month Committee (NCMC), will get underway at 9:00 a.m. To be held under theme: ‘Jamaica 50: Let’s Celebrate Our Children,’ the forum will include presentations from...

A benefit concert to raise funds for the rehabilitation of the Ward Theatre is slated for the Institute of Jamaica, East Street, downtown Kingston, on Sunday, November 18, beginning at 11:15 a.m. The concert, which forms part of a broader fund raising effort for the historic land, situated at North Parade, downtown Kingston, is being organised by the Ward Theatre...

LONDON — Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has credited Bob Marley's song 'Three Little Birds' for helping him to cope with the pressures surrounding the staging of the London Olympics. The Mayor was speaking at a reception he hosted on Monday (October 29) at City Hall to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In the...

Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Verene Shepherd, has endorsed a new book on the Accompong Maroons, in St. Elizabeth, describing it as a correction of historical myths. Speaking at the Maroon Resource Centre, in St. Elizabeth, at the book’s launch, ‘My Father Said’, an account of the...

A seminar, to raise awareness of the various laws to protect children from abuse, will be held on Monday, October 22 at the Management Institute for National Development’s (MIND) Old Hope Road headquarters.   The seminar is organised by Empowered Executive Professional Incorporated (EEPI) under the theme: ‘Protecting At-Risk Youth: The Legal Framework.’ It will examine the laws that exist, the...

Jamaicans are being encouraged to purchase and wear the Jamaica 50 commemorative pins to show their patriotism and love for the country. The Pins of Pride, which bear the Jamaica 50 logo, are priced at $700 each and come in a variety of colours and elegant finishes.One million Jamaicans are being targeted to purchase the pins as part of the...

Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, has urged the society to use the legacy left behind by Jamaica's National Heroes as a stepping stone to achieving greater success as a nation. "It is my wish that (we) will rediscover that indomitable spirit, so remarkably displayed by our ancestors; and that this spirit will equip us for the mission we...

The Accompong Maroons will later this month host an international conference, aimed at providing an indepth look into the lives and work of the Maroons and their intangible cultural heritage. The Accompong 2012 Conference will be held from October 26-27 in Accompong, under the theme: 'The African in Jamaica – Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Maroons for Democracy, Governance...

The cultural event and presentation ceremony honouring Jamaica's 2012 Olympians and Paralympians on National Heroes Day is a public event, and that just under half of the tickets available are for high school children and members of the public. Minister with responsibility for Sport in the Office of the Prime Minister, Natalie Neita Headley said, "The celebration, which will see...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, is urging young people to recognise and seize business opportunities to turn their dreams into reality.  She was addressing the closing ceremony for the Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) Youth Training workshop, developed by the CARICOM Secretariat, held on October 8 at the Ministry's New Kingston office. She said that...

The HEART Trust/NTA and Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) have partnered to undertake a $15.2 million Vocational Training Project for young persons between 17 and 35 years of age. This project will last for 12 months and will target persons in six communities in St. Catherine, who are deemed 'unattached'. The educational and vocational training programme will benefit persons in...