Jamaica will be among 24 countries to participate in the twelfth staging of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA) set to take place in Haiti August 21-30, 2015, under...

More than  700 children between 12 and 17 years of age from across the island, will converge on the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, for the second staging of the...

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, Permanent Secretary and staff of the Ministry and its Culture Agencies are this afternoon extending condolences to the family and...

Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies, (UWI), Rupert Lewis, is calling on Jamaicans to adopt the principles of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey, especially those...

The house where National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey, grew up in St. Ann’s Bay, St. Ann, will be refurbished and transformed into a heritage site. This was outlined...

Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, has applauded the efforts that went into this year’s staging of the Grand Gala and acknowledged the new features incorporated. “It was a...

MESSAGE FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL THE MOST HON. SIR PATRICK ALLEN ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J, TO THE NATION ON JAMAICA’S 53rd INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION Fellow Jamaicans,   Once again, whether...

My Fellow Jamaicans:   The detachment of Jamaica from the British colonial scaffold 53 years ago, and our emergence as an independent nation-state, was as seminal a moment as it...