Government of Jamaica
Kingston, 20 April 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has extended “heartiest congratulations to the Jamaica team at the Carifta Swim Meet in Barbados for doing so well.” Four Carifta 15-17 age group records were broken by Jamaica: two individual ones; two…
Kingston, 19 April 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, today launched the National Athletics Junior Championships for Boys and Girls at the primary school level. Minister Grange made the announcement about what she termed the ‘Junior Champs’ at a press launch at…
Kingston, 11 April 2022 (JIS) - The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission will be implementing a paperless solution for the collection of doping control data. The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, gave details while providing an update on the work of the Commission during a ceremony…
Kingston, 4 April 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, in welcoming the return of the ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys’ and Girls' Championships with spectators, has said Jamaica derives significant economic benefit from what is the premier secondary school athletic championships in the world.…
The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport has published a magazine in tribute to Jamaica’s team to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China. There’s tough competition for a place on any Jamaican sports team, so those who actually go through the process to earn a spot at…
Kingston, 11 February 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced a contribution of Ten Million Dollars to the Jamaica Football Federation to underwrite the cost of a charter flight for the national women’s football team, the Reggae Girlz, to their World…
Kingston, 3 February 2022 - The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced that she will be providing support to the tune of Ten Million, Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($10,800,000.00) to the Premier League Clubs for the 2022 football season (January to June). The…
Kingston, 2 February 2022 - The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has expressed sadness at the passing of Jamaica and West Indies cricketer, Easton 'Bull' McMorris. Mr McMorris died yesterday, February 1, at the age of 86. Minister Grange said “Bull McMorris, as he…
Kingston, 18 January 2022 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says Jamaica’s team to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China “demonstrates that nothing is impossible.” “‘We don’t have no snow’ yet here we are competing against the world’s best on ice,” said…
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Kingston, 10 November 2021 - The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says she is “in full support of Jamaica hosting the 2022 Carifta Games as a part of the country’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.” The Games would take place at the National Stadium between April…
Kingston, 1 November 2021 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, said today that the Government is now in a position to re-admit spectators — albeit in a limited way — beginning with the World Cup Qualifier between Jamaica and the United States at…
Kingston, 20 October 2021 – The Minister of Culture, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has congratulated Jamaica’s senior men’s Ice Hockey team for winning all six matches played, as an exhibition team, in the LATAM Cup at the Panthers Ice Hockey Den in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last weekend.…
Kingston, 14 October 2021 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has contributed J$6.35M to assist Netball Jamaica to host the Sunshine Series International Netball Tournament between Trinidad and Tobago’s Calypso Girls and Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls taking place between October 14 and 22, 2021.…