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Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021-2024, Olive Senior.
Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021-2024, Olive Senior.

Jamaicans Urged to Explore Poetry Archive

By: E. Hartman Reckord , September 23, 2023
Persons are being invited to support and explore the Jamaica Poetry Archive for their favourite poet or poem.  The electronic Archive, which is the first in the country, was established...
Kingston Creative Executive Director, Andrea Dempster-Chung (seated left), and Expedia Group Senior Business Development Manager, Warren Ho (seated right), affix their signatures to an agreement that will facilitate Jamaica’s participation in Expedia Group’s Sustainability Giveback programme, on Wednesday (September 13) on Water Lane in Kingston. Observing the signing (from left) are Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) Acting Deputy Director of Tourism for the Americas, Philip Rose; Chief Executive Officer of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation, Robert Hill; JTB Manager of Tour Operators and Airlines, Francine Carter Henry; and Deputy Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew, Winston Ennis. Kingston Creative received a donation of US$15,000 from the Expedia Group in association with the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB). Kingston Creative was selected, on the recommendation of the JTB, to be awarded the Expedia Sustainability Grant for 2023 to support its work in community tourism and the wider cultural and creative industries.

PHOTOS: Kingston Creative Receives US$15,000 from the Expedia Group

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Hon. Robert Morgan (centre), and Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Enthrose Campbell (eighth right), are surrounded by finalists in the JIS’s 2022 Heritage Competition, at the awards ceremony held at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew. Representative of competition co-sponsor, GK Insurance, Janell Myers (ninth right), also shared in the occasion.

Entries for 2023 JIS Heritage Competition Open September 18

By: Judith A. Hunter, September 12, 2023

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