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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, on her arrival at the House of Representatives on July 3 to make her Sectoral Presentation.

$26 Million to Assist Creative Persons

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, has announced the establishment of the Jamaica Creative 100 programme, with funding of $26 million. She informed that this is to help with the further development of creative people across...

Women’s health 1: Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (2nd right), looks through a copy of the Jamaica Women’s Health Survey Report following the launch at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on June 21. Others from left are: Senior Director for the Social Policy, Planning and Research Division, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Easton Williams; Regional Director, Americas and the Caribbean, United Nations Women, Luiza Carvalho; and Chief Technical Director, Ministry of National Security, Rohan Richards.

Gov’t Secures Property for Women’s Shelter

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Hon. Olivia Grange (2nd right) goes through a copy of the Jamaica Women’s Health Survey Report following the launch at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel on June 21. Others (from left) are Senior Director for the Social Policy, Planning and Research Division, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Easton Williams; Regional Director, Americas and the Caribbean, United Nations Women, Luiza Carvalho; Modernisation of the State Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Camila Mejia Giraldo; and Chief Technical Director, Ministry of National Security, Rohan Richards.

Sexual Harassment Bill to be Tabled in Parliament Within Weeks – Grange

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (right), greets boys from Chetolah Park Primary School (from left) Jordon Cousley and Tyler Robinson, at the Jamaica Teaching Council’s Boys’ Mentorship Training Programme, which was held at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, on Wednesday (June 20).

G-G Reiterates Call for More Mentors for Boys

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (third left); Interim Executive Director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Orville Hill (third right); and Country Director at the British Council, Olayinka Jacobs-Bonnick (second right), share a moment with participants in the second edition of the British Council’s International Festivals Academy (IFA) held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April. They are Enola Williams (left), Michael Holgate (second left) and Lesley-Ann Welsh (right). Occasion was the opening session of the cultural skills seminar for festival producers entitled ‘Festival X’ held on Wednesday (June 13) at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston

Festival Organisers Receive Cultural Skills Training

The Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (left) discusses the heritage of Jamaica with the new Director-General of UNESCO, Ms Audrey Azoulay at the 7th session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paris, France. Jamaica was elected to the Committee to serve a four-year term (2018-2022).

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Jamaica Successful in Bid for Seat on Another UNESCO Committee

Press Release - Jamaica has been successful in securing a place on yet another high-profile UNESCO Committee. The country was elected unopposed to a seat on the Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), at the General Assembly of the Convention which ended on June 6 in Paris, France. The Jamaican delegation was led by...

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Minister Grange Pledges Support to Struggling Teenage Mother

“Yasheka, you can consider your balance paid,” said the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, after listening to the story of the young mother who is struggling with the cost of her nursing programme at Excelsior Community College. Yasheka Brooks was one of the speakers at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation’s Charity Ball held...

Senior Superintendent of Police, Clinton Laing (left), presents a certificate to Detective Constable Sharline Griffiths for successfully completing the Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigators training course, at the graduation cceremony held recently at the National Police College of Jamaica (NPCJ) in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine.

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Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigators Better Equipped

After receiving the highest mark of 90.08 per cent in the Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigators’ Training Course, Detective Constable Sharline Griffiths has pledged to use the lessons learnt to help victims of such crimes. “For me, I will use the techniques to really get to the root in helping the victim,” she told JIS News. She said that...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange addresses the Women

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Grange Launches A-STREAM to Help Teenage Mothers Complete Schooling

Declaring that “no one must be left behind” the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, launched a new initiative to help adolescent mothers to complete their high school education. Minister Grange launched the programme during the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation’s 40th Anniversary Charity Ball on Saturday (May 26) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in...

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UWI Launches Gender Policy

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has developed a Gender Policy to formalise its commitment to gender justice and establish a framework for its implementation. The policy was launched on Tuesday (May 22) at the UWI Regional Headquarters in Kingston. The launch of this policy, led by the University’s Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), is intended to...

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Minister Grange Commends Sponsors of Labour Day Projects

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, is praising the various individuals and organisations that have come forward to lend their support to this year’s Workers’ Week and Labour Day activities. Labour Day is being observed on Wednesday, May 23 under the theme ‘Ramp it up…Fix it up’. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank, Ms. Grange...

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Jamaicans Should Pay Homage to Those Who Fought for the Rights of Workers – Grange

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says Jamaicans should pay homage to the Jamaican martyrs who advocated for the rights of workers. She was speaking at the National Workers’ Week and Labour Day Thanksgiving Church Service, held on Sunday (May 20) at the Portmore Holiness Christian Church in St. Catherine under the theme ‘Ramp it up......