The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced that the President of the African National Congress Women’s League, Bathabile Dlamini, will give the keynote address at a special webinar focusing on the role of women in the fight for freedom, equitable treatment and justice. The webinar, titled ‘Resistance, Resilience and Recognition’ will take place...

The Government is to spend approximately $7.9 million on the Technical Support to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy project, during the 2021/2022 fiscal year. This expenditure is outlined in the 2021/2022 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. The project is being implemented by the National Family Planning Board and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. Objectives of...

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has expressed shock and outrage at the killing of a woman during a church service in Falmouth, Trelawny on Sunday. The police report that Andrea Lowe-Garwood was in a worship session at her church on Sunday morning when a man posing as a member of the congregation walked...

The woman who was featured on national television sleeping on the street with her young child is getting help. The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says the woman has been taken from the street “and at this time she is in a facility with her son.” According to Minister Grange, “provision has been made...

A project aimed at strengthening the nation’s institutional coordination, promoting gender responsive climate action and ensuring that policies, programmes and projects address gender inequalities, was officially launched during a virtual ceremony, held today (January 21). The project, ‘Facilitating a Gender Responsive Approach to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Jamaica’, is being financed by a grant of US$270,000 from the...

Targeting laws that protect women and girls from violence The European Union/United Nations (UN) Spotlight Initiative (SI) in Jamaica has launched a series of Virtual Roundtables on local legislation underpinning the protection of women and girls from violence. The series, led by UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica, kicked off in December with a lunchtime roundtable on Jamaica's draft Sexual...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is currently carrying out a baseline assessment of select risk factors of pregnancy among high-school students in eastern Jamaica. “This has come about because of a study we did in 2014 looking at the operation of the Victoria Jubilee Hospital teen clinic, and the findings suggested that the eastern part of the island and...