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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, speaks in a video message at the recent virtual Musgrave Awards ceremony.

10 Jamaicans Awarded Musgrave Medals

Ten Jamaicans were recently awarded Musgrave Medals for work in their respective fields of Literature, Science and the Arts. The Medals are given in the categories of gold, silver and bronze, and there is also a special category for outstanding...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Jamaica information Service, Donna-Marie Rowe (left), applauds Mikayla Brown of Immaculate Conception High School in Kingston (centre), after presenting her the winning trophy for placing 1st in the Grades 7-9 category of the poster competition component of the 2021 JIS Heritage Competition. Also sharing in the moment is Retail Sales Manager, Sangster’s Book Store, Pauline Shuttleworth, who presented Mikayla with a Sangster’s Bookstore voucher valued at $10,000. Mikayla also received $15,000 in cash from JIS and was also awarded the best entry in the Grades 7-9 illustrated category for the poster component of the competition.

Prizes Presented In JIS Heritage Competition

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange. (JIS File Photo)

Award-Winning Pieces On Display At JCDC Visual Arts Exhibition

International Storyteller, Dr. Amina Blackwood Meeks.

National Storytelling Festival In Progress

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left); speaks with Mexico’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Juan José González Mijares (centre); and General Manager of Caribbean Cement Company Limited, Yago Castro Izaguirre, during a visit to Caribbean Cement’s Rockfort complex in East Kingston recently, to view a mural painted on a silo (in the background). The artwork adds to the ongoing ‘Jamaica Creative: Paint Up Yuh Creative Space’ mural project, which commenced in December 2019, and has been engaging communities in the Kingston Metropolitan Region through strategically located works of public art, while simultaneously providing economic opportunities for artists.

PHOTOS: Minister Grange Views Mural At Caribbean Cement Company

4 years ago CoronavirusCulture

Grange: Covid relief programme for entertainment, culture, creative industries practitioners oversubscribed

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says the Ministry’s ECCI Covid-19 Grants programme has been oversubscribed and has stopped taking new applications. “We anticipated about one thousand applications for the individual grants of $60,000 each to members of the Entertainment, Culture and Creative Industries. We’ve had a very good response in a very short time...

4 years ago CultureEntertainment

Festival Song Album for Grammy Consideration

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced that the 2021 Jamaica Festival Song Album, featuring the 12 finalists in this year’s competition, is on the long list of entries for a Grammy Award. Minister Grange said: “That means that the Jamaica Festival Song album is being considered among the entries for the Best...

State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge.

4 years ago COVID-19 VaccinationCultureHealth & Wellness

Honour Our Ancestors by Taking the Vaccine – Terrelonge

State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, has thanked the residents of Bath, St. Thomas for the work they have done in helping to find nine-year old Phylicia Prussia. Hundreds of residents, including members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Jamaica Defence Force, had formed search groups to find Phylicia who had...

Superintendent of Police in charge of St. Elizabeth, Narda Simms.

4 years ago CultureNational Security

St. Elizabeth Police Plan for Christmas Season

The St. Elizabeth Police are taking proactive measures to ensure that public order is maintained throughout the parish as the usually busy Yuletide season approaches. Superintendent of Police in charge of the parish, Narda Simms, said that traffic management strategies are being devised for major towns. “We have been doing some work, especially for the main-street Santa Cruz area, to...

Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2021, Dr. Dominique Reid, speaks at a virtual ceremony today (October 14) to launch her national outreach project, titled, ‘Project Healthy Smiles Jamaica’.

4 years ago Culture

Festival Queen Launches Oral Healthcare Project

Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2021, Dr. Dominique Reid, is undertaking a project designed to enhance oral healthcare and hygiene amongst youngsters. This is in keeping with one stipulation of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) that contestants of the Festival Queen Competition engage in activities focused on community development. Dubbed, ‘Project Healthy Smiles Jamaica’, the project, which was launched today...

Music Director Specialist at the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, Avery Crooks Campbell.

5 years ago Culture

Teens Called To Enter Customer Service Song Competition

Young Jamaicans, aged 13 to 17 years old, are being encouraged to enter the annual Jamaica Customer Service Song Competition. Entries for the competition close on Tuesday, September 21. The competition, which targets young people from primary and secondary schools across the island, is a joint venture of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) and the Jamaica Customer Service Association...

The entrance to the Jamaica Pavilion at World Expo 2020 Dubai, which was named one of the

5 years ago CultureForeign Affairs

Jamaica Among ‘Coolest’ Pavilions At World Expo 2020, Dubai

The team Jamaica camp is upbeat after the island’s Country Pavilion was named one of the ‘coolest’ at World Expo 2020, Dubai The ITP Media Group’s subsidiary, Time Out Dubai, recently published an article featuring the “coolest country pavilions” setting up for the global event, which gets under way in October. Jamaica was among just 13 standouts recognised of the...