The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, will chair the meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. The meeting from tomorrow (Monday, December 14) to Saturday, December 19 is being held online because of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Among other things, the Committee will consider 40 requests for inscription on the...

Kingston Creative, in partnership with JAMPRO, hosted a Creative Entrepreneur Meetup called Best Pitch Forward. On November 27 at 5 pm, twelve lucky creative entrepreneurs pitched for a pool of funds to kick start their respective creative projects! Best Pitch Forward was an exciting opportunity for creative entrepreneurs to share their creative ventures with a panel of three investors. From...

A National Committee is being set up for the planning of activities to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Jamaica’s Independence in 2022. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, Hon. Olivia Grange, said a Secretariat for Commemorative Events and Special Projects at the Ministry will have responsibility for “the planning, implementation and monitoring of activities” for Jamaica’s 60th Anniversary of...

The Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, has announced that the Ministry has submitted yet another Jamaican cultural form, Revivalism, Religious Practice of Jamaica, to UNESCO for Inscription on its prestigious Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Minister Grange said, “Since the Inscription of Reggae in 2018, I instructed my Technical Committee that going forward,...

Jamaicans at home and abroad will have the opportunity to win US$2,500 in the Jamaica 60th Logo Competition. Deadline for submission of entries is Friday, January 19, 2021 at midnight. The competition is being organised by the Secretariat for Commemorative Events and Special Projects in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, which is responsible for planning the country’s...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Hon. Alando Terrelonge is urging young people not to surrender to social pressure to become parents early, or to have children by a certain age, to fit in with society’s expectations. Instead, he is encouraging them to empower themselves and to ensure that they wait until they...

A webinar designed to assist teachers to incorporate the resources of the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ) in their lesson planning is scheduled to take place on Saturday (November 14), beginning at 1:00 p.m. The live-streamed event, organised by the Education Department of the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ) is being held under the theme ‘Supporting Art, Experiences and Learners’....