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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left), pays keen attention while Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communication at the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), Kimberley Stiff (centre), points out features of the new Port Royal cruise port. Occasion was a tour by the Minister today (January 14).
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left), pays keen attention while Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communication at the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), Kimberley Stiff (centre), points out features of the new Port Royal cruise port. Occasion was a tour by the Minister today (January 14).

Port Royal Residents Lauded For Preserving Image Of Community

By: Garfield L. Angus, January 15, 2020
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, has lauded the residents of Port Royal in Kingston for “preserving” the image of the community and helping to make...
Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison.

National Library Of Jamaica Extends Poetry Competition Submissions Deadline To Jan. 3, 2020

By: Rochelle Williams, December 31, 2019
Member of the National Council on Reparation (NCR), Frank Phipps Q.C. (left); Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Professor Opal Palmer Adisa (second left); Chairman of the NCR, Laleta Davis-Mattis (third left) and Principal Director of Culture and Creative Industries at the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Jo-Anne Archibald (right), at the Zong Monument in Black River, St Elizabeth. Occasion was a wreath laying ceremony held on Sunday, December 22, to commemorate the memory of those who lost their lives in the Zong Massacre of 1781. The event was organised by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, in collaboration with the NCR.

Enslaved Africans Of The Zong Massacre Remembered

By: E. Hartman Reckord, December 24, 2019

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Miss World 2019, Toni-Ann Singh (centre) greets residents outside of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) office in Morant Bay, St. Thomas, during her tour of the parish on Sunday (December 22).
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Hundreds Turn Out to Cheer Miss World

Hundreds of residents lined the streets of St. Thomas on Sunday (December 22) to get a glimpse of the reigning Miss World 2019, Toni-Ann Singh, on her tour of the...
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By: Ainsworth Morris, December 22, 2019
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (seated, centre), signs Deed for the Coral Gardens Trust Fund, at the Ministry, in Kingston, on Thursday (December 19). Witnessing the moment are: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Denzil Thorpe (standing, left); Legal Executive, Administrator-General’s Department, Kedia DaLattayae (seated, left); pastor Winston Malcolm; victims of the Coral Gardens incident and executives of the Rastafarian Coral Gardens Benevolent Society.
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Deed Signed To Benefit Coral Gardens Victims

Fifty six years after the Coral Gardens incident in St. James, where the police and soldiers detained Rastafarians, the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport has signed a Deed...
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By: Ainsworth Morris, December 20, 2019