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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange.

Minister Grange Urges Increased Partnership with UWI to Facilitate Research

Public- and private-sector entities are being urged to increased partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI) to facilitate research and innovation for economic and national development. Minister of Culture Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, made the...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left), in discussion with Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Programme Manager for the ‘Insights in Jamaica’ programme at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr. Zoyah Kinkead-Clark, during a tour of the UWI Research Days 2018 exhibit on February 7. Research Days will be held from February 7 to 9 under the theme ‘Powering Development through Partnerships in Research and Innovation’.

Government to Allocate $30 Million for Research

The Honourable Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, addressing the Opening Ceremony for the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Research Days 2018 on Wednesday, February 7.

Social Research is Critical – Grange

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, gives details of the Prime Minister’s Jamaica 55 Commemorative Medal of Appreciation at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ on February 7.

Applications Invited for PM’s Jamaica 55 Commemorative Medal

Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Jamaica, Ambassador Malgorzata Wasilewska (right), and Executive Director of the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL), Kandasi Levermore, in discussion at a function to launch an EU-sponsored project on ‘Reducing Domestic Sexual and Gender-based violence Against Women within the context of HIV and AIDS’, at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on February 7.

15 Women to Start Business Ventures through EU Grant Support

8 years ago Budget 2018/2019Gender Affairs

Sexual Harassment Bill to Be Tabled this Year

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, says the Sexual Harassment Bill is to be tabled this year. The Bill seeks to protect all women and men from unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and crude sexual behaviours that affect quality of life by creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment. The Governor-General made the announcement while...

8 years ago Budget 2018/2019Gender Affairs

New Fiscal Year Begins With Throne Speech

The 2018/19 session of Parliament got under way today (February 15) with the traditional pomp and pageantry. It was highlighted by the delivery of the Throne Speech by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen. His address outlined the priority programmes and policies to be pursued by the Government in the new fiscal year, which begins on April...

8 years ago Gender AffairsParliamentSenate

Senate Approves Bill to Absolve National Heroes from Criminal Liability

History was made in the Jamaican Parliament today, when the Senate approved the Bill shortly entitled, ‘The National Heroes and other Freedom Fighters (Absolution from Criminal Liability in Respect of Specified Acts) Act, 2017’. The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, who piloted the Bill in the House of Representatives, said it aims to absolve...

8 years ago Gender Affairs

Focus on Foster Care February 11-17

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) will observe National Foster Care Week from February 11 to 17, under the theme ‘Inspire Hope, Foster a Child’. For the past 12 years, the CPFSA, formerly the Child Development Agency (CDA), has been observing the Week to bring focus on foster care, which falls under the agency’s Living in Family Environments...

Outgoing Chief Justice, Hon. Zaila McCalla (left), accepts a citation from Puisne Judge and Assistant Secretary of the Jamaica Association of Women Judges (JAWJ), Hon. Justice Carol Edwards. Occasion was a ceremony in Justice McCalla’s honor at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on January 26. Mrs. McCalla was recognised for her 40 years of stalwart contribution to the justice sector.

8 years ago Gender AffairsJustice

Women Judges Hail Outgoing Chief Justice

Women judges from Jamaica and the wider Caribbean have heaped praises on retiring Chief Justice, Hon. Justice Zaila McCalla, for her 40 years of stalwart service to the justice sector and her work to modernise the judicial system. Members of the Jamaica Association of Women Judges (JAWJ) in a citation saluted her as “a true role model and a female...

Prime Minster the Most Hon. Andrew Holness. (FILE)

8 years ago Gender AffairsPrime Minister

Gov’t Takes Role of Protecting Rights of Citizens Seriously-PM

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness says the Government takes the role of protecting the rights of all citizens seriously. He noted that in dealing with the incidence of crime, the government is ensuring that there will be justice for all. “If it is that we are truly seeking justice in order to get peace, then it can’t be...

Acting Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Bureau of Gender Affairs, Sharon Robinson (second right), addressing the ParlAmericas Inter-Parliamentary workshop at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on January 25. Others (from right) are Dean, Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Rose-Marie Antoine; Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board, Canada, Joyce Murray; and Regional Project Director for the IMPACT justice programme, Velma Newton.

8 years ago Gender Affairs

Sexual Harassment Bill Modified to Reflect Current Realities

Acting Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Bureau of Gender Affairs, Sharon Robinson, says the sexual harassment Bill has been modified to reflect current realities. “We have had an opportunity... to look at whether or not the coverage was adequate or was there anything that we missed. There are some other things that we did not have in the first...