Olivia Grange

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Olivia "Babsy" Grange (born April 27, 1946 ) is a Jamaican politician of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP). From 2007 to early 2012 she was Jamaica's Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture .

Life

Olivia Grange grew up in Kingston , she attended All Saints Primary and Gainstead High School. She then studied at Ryerson University in Toronto , Canada. Together with other co-founders, she launched Contrast , Canada's first newspaper for the African American community. Grange also worked with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. As the Chief Executive Officer of the Entertainment Promotions Company , she worked as an event manager for a number of reggae musicians including Leroy Sibbles , Shabba Ranks and Lady Patra .

politics

Grange returned to Jamaica in the 1970s but then went back into exile in Canada after being incarcerated during the State of Emergency in 1976. When she returned to Jamaica for a vacation in 1980 after the end of the People's National Party government , she was invited to West Kingston by Edward Seaga , who had recently won the JLP's election and had been elected Prime Minister work. There she organized youth culture programs u. Ä.

Grange is co-founder and director of the Jamaica Association of Composers, Artistes and Producers (JACAP) and director of the Edward Seaga Research Institute.

It is the Jamaican Parliament (since 1997 Deputy Member of Parliament ). She has held various public and party offices, it was, among other Minister of State ( Minister of State ) in charge of Information and Culture and former deputy general secretary and public relations officer of Jamaica Labor Party.

In the parliamentary election on September 3, 2007, she was elected to the House of Representatives as a candidate for the JLP for the constituency of St. Catherine Central . The JLP won the majority in this election and formed the new government. Grange was appointed Minister for Information, Youth, Sport and Culture and sworn in on September 14th. During a cabinet reshuffle on April 6, 2009, her ministry relinquished responsibility for information, after which she became minister for youth, sport and culture. She remained minister until the JLP was defeated on December 29, 2011. Since she was able to win her constituency in this election, she remained a member of the House of Representatives. On January 19, 2012, opposition leader Andrew Holness appointed her opposition spokeswoman for youth, sports and cultural policy.

literature

  • Shakira Maxwell: Breaking the Barriers: A Brief Examination of Olivia 'Babsy' Grange . In: Cynthia Barrow-Giles (Ed.): Women in Caribbean politics . Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica 2011, ISBN 976-637-670-0 , pp. 117-124.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Female Jamaica Ministers . Retrieved February 9, 2011.
  2. ↑ Featured Speakers: Olivia Grange , Informations about the Creative Clusters Conference, Glasgow 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2010.
  3. ^ Prime Minister Announces Cabinet Changes , April 6, 2009, Jamaica Information Service. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
  4. ↑ Holness names Shadow Cabinet , Jamaica Gleaner, January 19, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Grange, Olivia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grange, Babsy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican politician (JLP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1946