Jamaica is the only Caribbean country with a nomination on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List this year. The World Heritage Committee will examine 36 nominations for inscription on UNESCO’s World Her...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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. ...