Reggae Month 2024 will be launched at a church service on Sunday, January 28, at Fellowship Tabernacle, 2 Fairfield Avenue, Kingston 20, at 9:30 a.m. The service, organised through the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, will be held under the theme ‘Celebrating Reggae’s Message of ONE LOVE’, aligning with the overarching theme for Reggae Month – ‘Come Ketch...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre) and Mrs. Juliet Holness (second right), are joined by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry (second left) and wife Meghan (left), and Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, Hon. Olivia Grange (right), at the premiere of the Bob Marley movie ‘One Love’ at Carib 5 in Kingston on Tuesday (January...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness and Mrs. Juliet Holness, arrive at the red carpet premiere of the ‘One Love’ movie at the Carib Five cinema in Cross Roads, St. Andrew on January 23. The movie, which tells the story of Jamaica’s reggae legend, Bob Marley, opens in cinemas on February 14.

The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) is inviting submissions for the 2024 Poet Laureate of Jamaica Prizes for Poetry competition, for which the deadline is March 1. The winners will receive cash prizes of US$1,000 in several categories. These are the Edward Baugh Prize for adult writers from Portland, St Thomas, Kingston and St Andrew; the Louise Bennett-Coverley Prize for...

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) will be hosting a series of online workshops to prepare participants for the Literary Arts/Creative Writing Competitions. The workshops, which run from January 15 to 27, will cover five subject areas –Screenwriting, Playwriting, Poetry, Novels and Essay writing. Among the scheduled presenters are Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies, Institute of Caribbean Studies, University...

Persons can view award-winning pieces of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) 2023 Jamaica Creative Writing Competition at parish libraries. The exhibition, organised by the JCDC in collaboration with the National Library of Jamaica and the Jamaica Library Service, is open to the public free of cost. The pieces are currently being showcased at the parish library in St. Ann...

A Bill to amend the Domestic Violence Act was passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (December 19). Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, concluded the debate in the Lower House, where she underscored that the Bill is indicative of the Government’s position on citizens’ security and safety. “Today we have traversed the landscape of...