The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport celebrated the 112th anniversary of the birth of political stalwart and trade unionist Kenneth ‘Ken’ Hill with a wreath laying exercise at his tomb at the National Heroes Park yesterday.
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The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) has paid tribute to the former Production Director, Mr. Bert Rose, who passed away at the University Hospital of the West Indies on Thursday, April 1 after falling ill.
Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2019/2020 Khamara Wright recently gave back to three youth-centred institutions in a three-day series of donation-handovers, in keeping with her national project, Ready, Set, Learn.
The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) will host four free online developmental workshops for the Culinary Arts competition, ahead of the 2021 staging of the competition cycle. The workshops will run from Monday, April 12, through to Thursday, April 15, beginning 3:30 p.m.
The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission is currently hosting a series of free online workshops for the Phase 1 subject areas of National Festival of the Performing Arts and Arts Development competitions, ahead of the 2021 competition cycle.
The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport celebrated the 111th anniversary of the birth of noted Jamaican ‘heroine’ of the labour movement Agnes ‘Aggie’ Bernard with a wreath laying exercise at her tomb at the National Heroes Park yesterday.
National Hero and Jamaica’s first Prime Minister, The Right Excellent Sir William Alexander Bustamante was honoured on Wednesday, February 24, during two Floral Tributes held to commemorate the 137th Anniversary of his birth.
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Hon Olivia Grange has expressed deep sadness at the passing of Constance Christie, mother of international dancehall artiste Shabba Ranks.
“She was someone I knew very well so to hear of her passing is devastating.”
The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, celebrated the 64th anniversary of the birth of the late Reggae singer Dennis Emmanuel Brown, CD, on Monday, February 1, with a cultural gat
Kingston, Jamaica: The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) wishes to announce the appointment of Mrs. Marjorie Leyden-Kirton as Acting Executive Director of the Agency.
