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SSP Lindsay Implores Women Not To Stay In Abusive Relationships

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Stephanie Lindsay, is imploring women not to let the fear of financial uncertainty or of being alone allow them to stay in abusive or toxic relationships. SSP Lindsay, who is the head of the Jamaica...

National Child Diversion Consultant, Ruth Carey.

Women’s Centre Foundation Supporting Child Diversion Programme

Member of Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness.

Mrs. Holness Urges Female Parliamentarians To Promote Greater Gender Cohesion

State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (left), converses with Executive Director, Eve for Life, Lovelet Crawford, at the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) HIV, Law and Human Rights Symposium on March 8. The virtual event was part of activities to mark International Women’s Day 2021.

Ministry and Other Entities Can Apply For Protection Order On Behalf Of Victims

State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (left), in conversation with (from left) Executive Director of the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL), Kandasi Walton-Levermore; Head of the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, Her Excellency Marianne Van Steen, and Executive Director, Eve for Life, Lovelet Crawford. Occasion was the JASL HIV, Law & Human Rights Symposium, held today (March 8), under the theme ‘Unmasking Violence against Women within the context of HIV and AIDS’. The virtual symposium was part of the local activities to commemorate International Women’s Day 2021.

Legislation Being Strengthened To Protect Women Against Violence

5 years ago Gender Affairs

Issues Of Women Must Be Tackled – Grange

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says issues affecting women must be tackled in the process of recovering gains lost under the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing the opening of a European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN)-sponsored forum, titled, ‘Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World’, held virtually, on Monday (March 8), the...

Project Manager of the Basic Needs Trust Fund at the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Dainty Ann Barrett Smith.

5 years ago Gender Affairs

JSIF Supports Revision of National Policy for Gender Equality

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), through its Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF), has been supporting the Bureau of Gender Affairs with the revision of the National Policy for Gender Equality (NPGE). Project Manager of the BNTF at JSIF, Dainty Ann Barrett Smith, told JIS News that the total value of the support is $8.8 million. “We are financing the...

5 years ago Gender Affairs

ANC Women’s League President to Address Reparations Council Webinar

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...

5 years ago Budget 2020/2021Gender Affairs

Support For Project To Reduce Teenage Pregnancy

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...

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

5 years ago Gender Affairs

Minister Grange: Let’s Remove Obstacles to Women’s Economic Equality

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has said that the contribution of women is vital to achieving sustainable development, peaceful and secure communities and poverty eradication. The Minister declared that there is an “overwhelming body of evidence showing the undeniable connection between women’s economic participation and prosperity." Minister Grange made the comments in her...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (second left), accepts one of 1,400 hygiene and nutrition packages from Chargé d

5 years ago Gender Affairs

PHOTOS: Jamaica Gets Packages from the Canada-funded Enabling Gender Responsive Disaster

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (second left), accepts one of 1,400 hygiene and nutrition packages from Chargé d'Affaires at the High Commission of Canada, Kevin Gilhooly (third left), at a recent handover ceremony, at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation in St. Andrew. Others pictured (from left) are Chairman of the Centre, Debbyann Brown Salmon;...

5 years ago Gender Affairs

Minister Grange Outraged at Killing of Woman in Church

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...