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Principal Director of Culture, Creative Industries Policy Division of the Ministry of Youth and Culture, Dr. Janice Lindsay. (FILE))
Principal Director of Culture, Creative Industries Policy Division of the Ministry of Youth and Culture, Dr. Janice Lindsay. (FILE))

Gateway Sign in St. Thomas for Blue and John Crow Mountains

By: E. Hartman Reckord, April 18, 2017
The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport will be mounting a third gateway sign to the Blue and John Crow Mountains in Port Morant, St. Thomas. Other signs have...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, accepted the Anthony Winkler archives from (2nd l-r) Becky, Cathy and Adam Winkler at a ceremony held at the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) in Kingston yesterday. The moment was also shared with (r) Yvonne Fraser-Clarke, Head of Department, Special Collections Department, NLJ and (left) Joy Douglas, chairman of the NLJ Board of Directors.

Grange welcomes Anthony Winkler archives to the National Library

By: Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, April 7, 2017
Veteran journalist and Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Ian Boyne (left), in discussion with Chairperson of the Committee of Management, Excelsior Community College, Patricia Sinclair McCalla (right). At centre is the school’s Assistant Chaplain, Rev. Moses Benguche. Occasion was the institution’s 4th annual Ted Dwyer Lecture which Mr. Boyne delivered at its location in Kingston on March 30.

Jamaicans Urged To Embrace Positive Values and Attitudes

By: Alecia Smith, April 1, 2017

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Grange: Walcott’s Passing a Great Loss to the Region

Kingston, March 17, 2017 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange has described Derek Walcott, the St Lucian Nobel Laureate who passed away today...
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By: Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, March 18, 2017
Keeper of Collection, Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), Jason Ramsay, points to a drum machine donated by Lowell “Sly” Fillmore Dunbar to the Jamaica Music Museum. The musical instrument is one of the many pieces on display at the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) head office, 58 Half-Way Tree Road, Kingston in observance of Reggae Month under the theme: ‘Reggae Mecca.’
Culture

Musical Artefacts on Display at The JIS

Musical instruments, including the Bembe, Bata and the Prenten drums, collections of the National Museum Jamaica (NMJ), are now on display at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) 58A Half-Way Tree...
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By: Elaine Reckord, February 19, 2017
Culture

Grounation Series to Focus on Mento

Mento, Jamaica’s first popular music, will be the focus of this year’s Grounation series under the theme: ‘Mento: Is ow de Music Sweet So’. Grounation is the Jamaica Music Museum’s...
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By: E. Hartman Reckord, February 1, 2017