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With the successful docking of Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas at the Falmouth cruise ship pier in Trelawny, on February 17, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange has expressed confidence that the port and town of Falmouth will be ready for the mega cruise liner, Oasis of the Seas, on March 22. This confidence by the...

The Office of the Children's Advocate (OCA)is reporting that it received 1,778 complaints of incidents relating to infringements of the rights and welfare of children over the five-year period leading up to December 2010. These include cases involving violence against children, including physical and sexual abuse; sudden deaths of children in state care; children of parents, who are incarcerated; children...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has said the country owes a debt of gratitude to the late Ambassador of Culture, Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou), for the dignity and integrity she brought to the Jamaican people. “She helped us to see ourselves as we are and taught us how not to be ashamed of who we...

Fourteen students and eight teachers from the St. Martin in the Fields Church of England High School in South London will leave for Jamaica this week-end, for a one week educational and social link with staff and students of the Anchovy High School in St. James. The link is the continuation of a relationship, which was established in 2007 under...

‘Nakumbuka,’ the annual memorial commemorating the millions of lives lost during the transatlantic slave trade, will be held on February 17 and 18 at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. Bazba Theatrical Players Limited is organising the two-day event, which is being held in Jamaica for the third time. The official opening ceremony will take place on Thursday at 4:30...

Sixteen children from various institutions across the Corporate Area have been selected to serve on the Children’s Advisory Panel of the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA). They have been chosen from primary and high schools, and child care institutions for the pilot project. Speaking at a press launch at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, on February 15, Public...

The induction of 22 new Youth Ambassadors should help to ensure that the voices of Jamaican youths will be heard more strongly on the national and international stage. The young people, aged 18 to 26, were recently inducted at King’s House, where they received the charge and instruments of office from the Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick...

Field Services Director with the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC),  Marjorie Leyden-Vernon says plans for  a civic ceremony to commemorate 127th birthday of  National Hero, the Right Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante, on February 24, is well advanced. The ceremony will be held at Blenheim, in the parish of Hanover,  the birthplace of the National Hero.  In an interview with JIS...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness says culture is a vital aspect of Jamaica’s national heritage and its continued incorporation into the education system is essential. “We have to therefore use the tools of culture, use our creativity to infuse that into our curriculum so that it gets directly to the minds of the students,” Minister Holness said. He was...

Twenty-two young persons were presented with instruments of office, to begin their two-year tenure as Youth Ambassadors for Jamaica, on Tuesday February 8. The Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, assisted by the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, presented the instruments to the Youth Ambassadors, at the ceremony in the Tea Garden at...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Olivia Grange, has called on the country’s youth ambassadors to become agents of change and to develop practical and sustainable plans that will have an impact on young people. “Create linkages and partnerships that can benefit the youth of this country. Don’t just become people who talk, become agents of change. You have been...

A series of programmes celebrating Reggae’s impact on the British music, culture and society will be aired on the BBC 4 television, beginning on February 11. The programmes are a part of the BBC 4 Britannia series and will show how Reggae came from Jamaica in the 1960s to influence, over the next 20 years, both British music and society....