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Poet Laureate of South Africa, Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile (centre), in discussion with Acting High Commissioner, John Clarke (left) and Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Professor Mervyn Morris, following the Poetry Reading, on September 6, in Pretoria.
Poet Laureate of South Africa, Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile (centre), in discussion with Acting High Commissioner, John Clarke (left) and Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Professor Mervyn Morris, following the Poetry Reading, on September 6, in Pretoria.

Jamaican and South African Poet Laureates Share Stage

By: John Clarke, Jamaican High Commission Pretoria, September 17, 2014
South Africans and Jamaicans were treated to a symbolic and historic event on September 6 in Pretoria, as Poet Laureates of Jamaica and South Africa, Professor Mervyn Morris and Professor...
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (left), signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide $5 million in scholarships to students of the college, under the Access to Higher Education Partnership (AHEP) programme, on Thursday (September 11) on the grounds of the college. Other signatories are Board Member of the National Youth Service (NYS), Rev. Lenworth Sterling (centre); and Chairman of Brown's Town Community College, Dr. Michael Whittingham.

Government Launches Scholarship Programme at Brown’s Town Community College

By: Glenis A. Rose, September 15, 2014
Senior Acting Programmes Director in the Ministry of Youth and Culture, Miguel Williams (left), is in discussion with Chairman of the Possibility Programme, Robert Gibbs; and Director of the Possibility Programme, Lolita Phillips (right), at the opening of a reading room at the Goodwin Park Boys Hostel on South Camp Road on September 8. The books were collected through the National Youth Service’s (NYS) Summer Programme book drive.

Goodwin Park Boys Hostel Gets Reading Room

By: Alphea Saunders, September 9, 2014

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Director and Curator, Jamaica Music Museum, Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), Herbie Miller.
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