The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has hailed the beginning of Chinese New Year and welcomed the Year of the Ox. Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, begins today and includes two weeks of celebration. Minister Grange, while congratulating Chinese Jamaicans on carrying on the tradition, has urged them to ensure...

 

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the construction of the Red Stripe Experience museum at the picturesque Rick’s Café in Negril, will add to the country’s cultural assets and boost the country’s tourism product. “What makes this attraction unique and what I particularly love about it is that it presents a fusion of the island’s natural physical assets...

Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, is calling for the urgent implementation of reparations for Africans and persons of African descent impacted by racial injustice. She said that reparations should address the moral, economic, political and legal obligations of States in relation to past and present atrocities rooted in slavery and colonialism, such as racial discrimination, xenophobia...

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has called for support from UNESCO and the United Nations for activities that seek “Reparatory Justice for Afro-descendants of Jamaica and the Caribbean.” This request will be highlighted at a Webinar being held to commemorate the World Day for African and Afro-Descendant Culture on January 24, 2021. Minister...

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment, and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has expressed sadness at the death of the Jamaican music entrepreneur and impresario, Ronnie Nasralla. Nasralla was an important figure in the export of Jamaican music in the 1960s as a key player in the country’s participation in the World’s Fair. Minister Grange said: “Ronnie played a great...