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State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (left), and others dripping candle wax, as part of a tradition, on the grave of former Jamaican religious revivalist, painter and sculptor, Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds. This was done in commemoration of the 108th anniversary of his birth, on Sunday (February 10) at the National Heroes Park in Kingston. Kapo was one of the greatest artists in Jamaica's ‘Intuitives’ artistic movement. He was born in the Byndloss district of St. Catherine and died in 1989 at age 78 years. Also present at the ceremony were members of the creative industry, revivalist movement, diplomats, the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission and other dignitaries.
State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (left), and others dripping candle wax, as part of a tradition, on the grave of former Jamaican religious revivalist, painter and sculptor, Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds. This was done in commemoration of the 108th anniversary of his birth, on Sunday (February 10) at the National Heroes Park in Kingston. Kapo was one of the greatest artists in Jamaica's ‘Intuitives’ artistic movement. He was born in the Byndloss district of St. Catherine and died in 1989 at age 78 years. Also present at the ceremony were members of the creative industry, revivalist movement, diplomats, the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission and other dignitaries.

PHOTOS: Remembrance of Sculptor and Cultural Force, Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds

  State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, placing a plant on the tomb of former Jamaican religious revivalist, painter, sculptor and cultural...
Student at The Mico University College, Tevin Gibbons (left); Head Girl, Oberlin High School, Shania Lawrence (centre); and Deputy Head Girl, Oberlin High School, Okeelia Bryan, perform a song entitled, ‘Redemption Song’, at the launch of Jamaica Day on Thursday (January 31), at Hope Botanical Gardens, in Kingston.

Schools to Celebrate Jamaica Day February 22

By: Latonya Linton, February 1, 2019
The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange (right), greets her counterpart Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture from Ghana, the Honourable Catherine Afeku upon her arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport on Saturday (January 26). Minister Afeku is in Jamaica for the Caribbean launch of the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in the Diaspora.

PHOTO: Minister Grange Welcomes Ghanian Minister of Culture and Arts to Jamaica

By: Ministry Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, January 28, 2019

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