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Senior Technical Officer with Responsibility for Mitigation, Climate Change Division, Omar Alcock (right); Principal Director, Bureau of Gender Affairs, Sharon Coburn-Robinson (second right); Programme Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Climate Change Division, Schmoi McLean (second left) and Regional Manager, Caribbean Country Programme Division, Green Climate Fund (GCF), Orville Grey, peruse Jamaica’s Gender and Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (GCCSAP) which was officially launched during a gender and climate change symposium at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on July 22.
Senior Technical Officer with Responsibility for Mitigation, Climate Change Division, Omar Alcock (right); Principal Director, Bureau of Gender Affairs, Sharon Coburn-Robinson (second right); Programme Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Climate Change Division, Schmoi McLean (second left) and Regional Manager, Caribbean Country Programme Division, Green Climate Fund (GCF), Orville Grey, peruse Jamaica’s Gender and Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (GCCSAP) which was officially launched during a gender and climate change symposium at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on July 22.

Jamaica Develops Gender and Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan

By: CHRIS PATTERSON, July 25, 2022
Jamaica now has a Gender and Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (GCCSAP). The Plan’s development was guided by a national gender and climate change assessment, which provided an overview...
Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne (third left), with (from left): Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson; Representative UN Women Multi-Country Office Caribbean, Ms. Tonni Brodber; Representative (acting), Jamaica Country Office, IDB, Mr. Lorenzo Escondeur; Principal Director, Gender Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Ms. Sharon Robinson, and Deputy Head of Delegation for the EU to Jamaica, Mr. Fredrik Ekfeldt, at the Regional Knowledge Exchange on Operational Command of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) five-day workshop, at the AC Marriot Hotel, on July 18.

Jamaica Will Continue to Tackle Gender-Based Violence – Mayne

By: LISA ROWE, July 22, 2022
Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz (right) presents a plaque to senior lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr. Winklet Gallimore (centre), during the official launch of the Scientific Research Council’s (SRC) Science & Technology XXtrordineers JA programme at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on July 14. At right is Executive Director, SRC, Dr. Charah T. Watson.

SRC Honours Nine Women as ‘Science & Technology Xxtrordineers’

By: Chris Patterson, July 15, 2022

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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (right) presents a plaque to the Ministry’s Outstanding Fathers Award nominee, Rev. Dr. Peter Garth at the ceremony held on Friday (June 17) at the Caymanas Golf Club, St. Catherine. It is one of several events organised by the Ministry’s Bureau of Gender Affairs to mark this year’s Father’s Day which will be celebrated on Sunday (June 19) under the theme, ‘Jamaica’s 60th: Fathering Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’. The award aims to acknowledge and celebrate the vital role of fathers and father-figures within families and in the wider society and by extension, their contributions to nation building.
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Exemplary Fathers Honoured

Sixty fathers of exemplary character have been recognised in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport’s annual ‘Outstanding Fathers Awards’. The ceremony was held on Friday (June 17) at...
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By: Rochelle Williams, June 20, 2022