Ten students at Ensom City and Eltham Park Primary Schools in St. Catherine have been gifted tablet computers under the Government’s ‘Connect a Child’ Programme. This initiative aims to support academically gifted students experiencing financial challenges by providing them with essential digital tools for their educational success. Speaking during the presentation ceremony at Ensom City Primary on Thursday (January 30),...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, and Member of Parliament for St. Catherine Central, Hon. Olivia Grange (centre) interacts with students during a tablet computer presentation ceremony at Ensom City Primary School in the parish on Thursday (January 30). The tablets were distributed under the Universal Service Fund (USF) ‘Connect a Child’ programme, which provides deserving students with access...

Reggae Month 2025 will be observed in February under the theme: ‘Come Ketch Di Riddim’. Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, made the disclosure during a statement in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (January 28). She informed that Reggae Month events will not be only concentrated within the Corporate Area, and that this year, the Ministry...

More than 10,000 entries for this year’s National Festival of the Performing Arts 2025 have been registered on the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) new online Awards Force platform. In January 2024, the JCDC introduced the Awards Force, a competition platform that not only allows for entries but also adjudication, feedback to entrants and galleries to showcase visual entries. Entrants...

Businesses can be a part of the upcoming Miss Jamaica Festival Queen Competition by sponsoring a contestant in their parish. Sponsors will be among the key stakeholders who are expected to participate in the crowning of the parish queens selected to compete in the National Finals. The event, organised by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), forms part of the...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says the decision to posthumously pardon National Hero, Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was convicted for mail fraud in the United States (US), represents a most significant step in a process that must continue until he is exonerated. She made the remarks during a statement to the House of...

Widely acclaimed poet, Professor Kwame Dawes, has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of investiture, held at King’s House on Wednesday (January 22), he was bestowed with the insignia by Deputy Governor-General, Hon. Steadman Fuller. Professor Dawes is the fourth Poet Laureate in post-Independent Jamaica, succeeding prolific poet, Olive Senior; accomplished author, Lorna...