UWI selected to lead Climate-Smart World
The International Association of Universities (IAU) has selected the University of the West Indies (UWI) as its global leader in the mobilisation of research and advocacy for the achievement of a clim...
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Ministry of Culture endorses IRAWMA
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange has endorsed the 37th International Reggae & World Music Awards (IRAWMA) which will be held in Kingston on May 11...
Ja to establish National Anti-doping compliance committee
Jamaica is moving to establish a National Anti-Doping Compliance Committee as part of measures to enhance the national programme to keep sports clean. The announcement was made on Thursday by the M...
Grange 'moved to tears' after reggae got global recognition at UNESCO
Olivia Grange, the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, was reportedly moved to tears on Thursday after reggae music was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cult...
UNESCO considers putting reggae on Cultural Heritage List
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is currently mulling over whether to include reggae music on its Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List. ...
Women’s Centre of Jamaica wins US$50,000 UNESCO prize
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and Chairman of the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO, Olivia Grange, has announced that the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation has won the ...
Movement to have Port Royal on World Heritage list hits higher gear
Jamaica is moving to have sections of Port Royal placed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage site. This as the opening ceremony of the Evaluation Mission for the nomination for the ‘Sunken Cit...
As US prepares to leave UNESCO, envoy urges deep reforms
The chief U.S. envoy at UNESCO says anti-Israel bias and opaque bureaucracy are hobbling the U.N. cultural agency and is urging deep reforms. Chris Hegadorn made the appeal Saturday at the agen...
US to pull out of UNESCO amid Palestinian tensions
U.S. officials have told The Associated Press that the United States is pulling out of UNESCO, after repeated criticism of resolutions by the U.N. cultural agency that Washington sees as anti-Israel. ...
New visitor guidelines for Machu Picchu
Visitors to Machu Picchu will no longer be allowed to spend the entire day at the historic site That is part of the new rules which have been implemented per a mandate from UNESCO offici...