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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange. (FILE)

Minister Grange Condemns Killing of Pregnant Woman and Children

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has condemned the deadly attack on a pregnant woman and two children in Hanover yesterday ( April 25). It’s reported that 38-year-old Abanique Cunningham and her two children...

Acting Senior Director for the Bureau of Gender Affairs in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Sharon Coburn Robinson, addresses a ‘More Than an Athlete: Not Just a Player’ symposium, held on Thursday, April 12, at Jamaica College in Kingston. The symposium sought to equip male high-school athletes with the knowledge and life skills to make healthy choices as they transition from school into professional careers.

Male Student Athletes Attend Symposium

Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Alando Terrelonge (second right) with Dr Lucille Buchannan, Founder, Special Olympics Jamaica (second left); Mary Davis, CEO, Special Olympics International and Ali McNab, Chairman, Special Olympics Jamaica. Dr. Buchannan was presented with an award in recognition of her role as a founding member of the Special Olympics movement in Jamaica, yesterday (April 10) at the Special Olympics Multipurpose Court at Independence Park.

Grange reaffirms the Government’s commitment to developing Jamaica’s Special Olympics programme

State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (left), is greeted by the University of Technology (UTech) President, Professor Stephen Vasciannie (right), at the opening ceremony of the President’s Knights Day on Thursday (April 5) at UTech’s Papine campus. At centre is the Dean, Faculty of Sports, UTech, Kamilah Hylton.

State Minister for Sport Commends UTech

Executive Director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Dr. Zoe Simpson, speaking at a ‘Four Women’ cultural series held recently at the Institute of Jamaica Lecture Hall, East Street, downtown Kingston.

Jamaicans Urged to Change Perception of Adolescent Mothers

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USAID-Funded Project Empowering Women and Girls

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Fi Wi Jamaica Project, being executed through the University of Technology (UTech), recently hosted the second in a series of conversations called ‘Big ‘Ooman Chat’. Several successful professional and entrepreneurial women were invited to hear of the success of one major output of the project, ‘Girls using Ubuntu, Respect and Love for...

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JA Looking to Have Port Royal and Cockpit Country Inscribed to UNESCO World Heritage List

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says nomination dossiers are being prepared for two more of the country’s heritage sites to be inscribed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. She said these sites include Port Royal and the Cockpit Country. Ms Grange made the remarks during a speech read...

The Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport makes a point to Everton Hannam, Secretary General, Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO (left). Also a part of the conversation were: Ambassador Marcia Gilbert-Roberts, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade; Joy Douglas, Chairman, Man and the Biosphere National Committee and Katherine Grigsby, Director, UNESCO Office for the Caribbean (left to right).

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Minister Grange Calls for Protection of Biodiversity Across the Caribbean

The Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, has urged the National Commissions for UNESCO across the region to protect the biodiversity in their respective countries. Minister Grange, who chairs the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO, made the comment at the Opening Ceremony of a Caribbean regional workshop for the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme on...

Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison, makes a point while making a presentation on Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou) at a ‘Four Women’ cultural series held on Sunday (March 18) at the Institute of Jamaica Lecture Hall, East Street, downtown Kingston.

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Poet Laureate Says Miss Lou’s Talents and Gifts Were Purely Jamaican

Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison, says the talents and gifts possessed by cultural icon, Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou), were “purely Jamaican”. Speaking at the second presentation in the ‘Four Women’ series held yesterday (March 18) at the Institute of Jamaica, downtown Kingston, Ms. Goodison said Miss Lou “was the first of us who really did that. She was...

Executive Director, Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, Dr. Zoe Simpson, speaking at a cultural series titled ‘Four Women’ at the Institute of Jamaica Lecture Hall, East Street, downtown Kingston, on March 11.

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Women’s Centre to Launch ‘A-Stream’ Scholarship Initiative

A scholarship programme titled ‘A-STREAM’ (Advancing Secondary Tertiary Remedial Education for Adolescent Mothers), which aims to empower young women, will be launched on May 26 by the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) during a Charity Ball at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston. Forty girls enrolled at the secondary level and four tertiary students will be presented with grants...

Executive Director of the Institute of Jamaica, Vivian Crawford, delivers the message of Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. Hon. Olivia Grange, at a cultural series titled, ‘Four Women’, held on March 11 at the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), downtown Kingston.

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Women Encouraged to Emulate Cultural Icons

Women are being encouraged to impact society by following in the footsteps of four cultural icons – sculptor, Hon. Edna Manley; folklorist, author, musician and actress, Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley; writer and activist, Una Marson; and opera singer, Mercedes Kirkwood. The call came from Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, at the beginning of a cultural series...

State Minister for National Security, Senator the Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (right), enjoys a light moment with Deputy Commissioner of Police, Novelette Grant (left); and Mission Director for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Maura Barry Boyle, at the end of a domestic violence training session for members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) held on March 8 at the Police Officers’ Club, St. Andrew.

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Cops Charged to Become Ambassadors against Domestic Violence

State Minister for National Security, Senator the Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., has called on members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) who have benefited from domestic violence training to become ambassadors in ending the scourge in the society. “I expect to see you in the churches, in schools, at the community centres, and teaching other uniformed groups, as this is...