Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (CGES), the Honourable Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, has expressed that the Ministry will actively pursue the introduction of a Mobile Sport and Wellness Unit. Minister Grange highlighted that there has been a worrying increase in chronic and debilitating diseases in the human population worldwide, therefore, “the importance of constantly reinforcing the promotion of healthy...

            A wellness centre, valued at US$54,000, was officially opened on March 17, at Sabina Park, with the aim of improving the health and fitness levels of the country’s cricket players.           The centre has been provided through the collaboration of the National Health Fund and the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA).              In her address, Minister of Entertainment, Sport, Culture and...

A three-member delegation from the Nevis Island Administration is in Jamaica to observe the 2016 Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Athletic Championships, and to seek partnerships in sports. The group is headed by the Minister of Social Development, Youth, Sport, Community Development and Basic Needs, Hon. Hazel Brandy Williams.  She is accompanied by the Assistant Secretary in the Ministry, Michelle...

Minister of Culture, Gender Affairs, Entertainment and Sports (CGES), Hon. Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, has given her full endorsement to the Racers Grand Prix being staged by the Racers Track Club in June of this year. Speaking at the media launch of the event at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel yesterday, Wednesday, March 9, Minister Grange said the new government of Jamaica...

The Honourable Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, who was sworn in as Minister of Culture, Gender Affairs, Entertainment and Sports, says she is greatly saddened by the recent news of the passing of promising schoolboy footballer, Jordan Foote. Foote died in the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) from cancer, which earlier cost him his left leg in December and ultimately...

Jamaica has added Table Tennis to the list of sports the para-athletes will participate in, at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was signed today (February 17), by the Jamaica Paralympics Association (JPA) and Table Tennis Jamaica (TTJ),  at the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre, in Kingston, outlines that the TTJ will provide professional training and...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has congratulated the young West Indian cricketers on their recent historic victory in the ICC Under-19 World Cup Cricket World Cup Competition. The Prime Minister has also highlighted the participation in the victorious team, of three outstanding young Jamaican cricketers. “It is with an immense sense of pride that I extend the heartiest congratulations, on...