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(Front, right-left) Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Honourable Olivia Grange, receives a cheque of JMD $9,995

Grange: UNESCO to spend JMD$10 Million on Development Projects

The Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO has secured close to J$10 million to fund development projects in the areas of Culture, Gender, Youth and Science. The disclosure was made by the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and Chairman...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addresses the local launch of the FundRiseHER Initiative at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston, recently.

Female Entrepreneurs to Benefit from Regional Crowd-Funding Campaign

Wife of the Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness offers words of encouragement to teenage girls at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation on July 18. (File photo).

PM’s Wife Lauds Programmes at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF)

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange delivering her speech in the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 12. At left is Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Mike Henry.

Marcus Garvey’s Boyhood Home to be Restored

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange. (FILE)

Review of all Sporting Entities

10 years ago CultureGender Affairs

Cabinet Approves Members of NCR

Cabinet has approved 12 members to serve on the National Council on Reparations (NCR), which will be co-chaired by Professor Verene Shepherd and Lalaeta Davis Mattis. This was disclosed by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, during her contribution to the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 12. The other members of...

10 years ago CultureGender AffairsSectoral Debate 2016/2017

WCJF to Restructure Delivery of Programmes

The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) has commenced the restructuring of the delivery of its programmes. This was disclosed by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Babsy Grange, during her contribution to the 2016/17 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 12. She said the restructuring aims to broaden the scope of the Foundation’s mandate...

Director of Policy and Research at the Bureau of Gender Affairs, Sharon Robinson, who represented Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, speaking at Monday’s (July 11) Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) exposition at Morant Villas in Morant Bay, St. Thomas, to mark World Population Day. The event was held under the theme ‘Investing in Teenage Girls; Engaging Men and Boys’. (FILE)

10 years ago EducationGender AffairsVision 2030Youth

Minister Reaffirms Commitment to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence

The Government remains committed to ongoing implementation of strategies to eliminate gender-based violence and discrimination. Notable among these are provisions in the National Policy for Gender Equality; the proposed National Action Plan to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence; as well as the Caribbean Community/United Nations Population Fund (CARICOM/UNFPA) Integrated Strategic Framework, which targets a 20 per cent reduction in adolescent/teenage pregnancies in...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP

10 years ago Gender AffairsNational Security and PeacePrime Minister

PM Commits to Reforms as he Mourns Murder of 3 Year-Old

Prime Minister Andrew Holness today said he is mourning with the nation and keeping a close watch on the investigation into the murder of a three-year-old girl in St Ann. Prime Minister Holness said he has had conversations with the Police Commissioner Dr Karl Williams, who assured him that all is being done to bring the killer or killers of...

Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, offers words of comfort to Mrs. Marie Sinclair, widow of the late Gleaner journalist Glenroy Sinclair, at his Thanksgiving Service, held at the New Haven Seventh-Day Adventist Church, in Kingston, on June 19.

10 years ago Gender Affairs

Minister Pays Tribute to Late Journalist

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, says she will cherish the memories of the late Gleaner journalist, Glenroy Sinclair. Miss Grange, who knew Mr. Sinclair, affectionately called ‘Sinco’, during his days in Central Kingston, noted that he never once lost the “common touch”. “He walked with power brokers, but he never forgot his duty to...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (CGES), the Honourable Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange shares a photo opportunity at the launch of The Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Project with (from left) Permanent Secretary, Ministry CGES, Alison McLean; Women’s Incorporated, Joyce Hewitt and Former Senator, Imani Duncan-Price. The event took place at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston on April 4, 2016.

10 years ago Gender Affairs

Safe Places to be Provided for Victims of Gender-Based Violence

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says the Government will be giving “urgent priority” to the provision of safe places and rehabilitative and reconstructive services for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. “I have directed that this matter be addressed as an urgent and first order priority in the upcoming fiscal year,” she said. The Minister...

10 years ago Gender Affairs

Government of Jamaica Committed to the Eradication of Gender Based Violence

Minister with responsibility for Gender Affairs, the Honourable Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, has said that the Government is committed to ensuring that gender-based violence is eradicated through the use of the National Strategic Action Plan to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence in Jamaica (NSAP-GBV). Speaking at the launch of ‘The Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Project’ at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston...