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Sectoral Debate 2020/21 | 1 SECTORAL DEBATE 2018/19 | 1 SECTORAL DEBATE 2020/21 | 1 Cover “It is by tapping into the gifts and awakening the spirit of the Jamaican people that we will, by God’s grace, re-group, re-engineer and re-open to a brighter future with Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. The Honourable” Olivia Grange, CD, MP Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Re-group. Re-engineer. Re-open. Contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate By the Honourable Olivia Grange, CD, MP Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport 14 July 2020 Gordon House Kingston, Jamaica SECTORAL DEBATE 2020/21 | 4 Opening Statement. r. Speaker, I begin my opportunities and our presentation this year with training and M thanksgiving. We have educational support much for which to give God thanks. programmes. The almighty has been faithful to us I am energised when in good times and in these I see those who challenging times. benefted from our Let us give thanks for the strong, constituency steady, inspirational leadership of our development initiatives Prime Minister, the Most Honourable and are now able to pay Andrew Holness, as he leads our it forward by assisting nation in the fght against covid-19 others. This is and the public health, economic and something to be social challenges associated with the grateful for even as we pandemic. Let us continue to lift him work to ensure that the up in prayers as we need him to go covid pandemic doesn’t on making decisions in the best reverse the gains we interest of Jamaica. have made. I also give thanks for my Mr. Speaker, I remain colleagues in the cabinet and in this hopeful because of the Honourable House; the leadership of giftedness of the our health and security services; all Jamaican people; their c those on the frontline who are warmth and creativity; working to keep Jamaica safe; my their dynamism and team in the Ministry of Culture, indomitable spirit that Gender, Entertainment and Sport and have resulted in its Departments and Agencies; as well excellence in all sectors. as the people and sectors whom we It is by tapping into serve. the gifts and awakening I give thanks for the people of the spirit of the Central St. Catherine and my Jamaican people that Councillors for the privilege to serve we will, by God’s grace, and work with them over the last 23 re-group, re-engineer years. We’ve come a long way and and re-open to a achieved much together in brighter future with infrastructure development, Culture, Gender, especially community facilities and Entertainment and schools; roads; safer communities; Sport. cultural and sports development; youth engagement; economic SECTORAL DEBATE 2020/21 | 5 Covid-19 and the Jamaican Creative & Athletic Economy. Projected decline due to covid-19 Growth rate of recreational cultural and sporting activities he sectors of my Ministry Festival of the Arts, no Carnival in thrive on in-person Jamaica, no Reggae Sumfest, no “the impact of T gathering in close National Athletics Trials, no covid on culture, proximity; they are motivated Olympics, the National Premier entertainment, through touch, feel and taste; and League had to be abandoned, like so the presence of large crowds is many other events. sport has been essential to success. Therefore, the Most artistes have not worked devastating. required protocols of social and since March as concerts, tours and physical distancing, stay-at-home events in Jamaica and across the ” and community lockdowns, have world have been cancelled. Many had severe effects. Mr. Speaker, in a creative professionals have also been word, the impact of covid on culture, out of work as studios closed — entertainment, sport has been affecting audio, lighting and other devastating. technical production professionals, As covid hit this year, there were graphic designers, curators, no Boys’ and Girls’ Champs, no scriptwriters, stylists, among others. SECTORAL DEBATE 2020/21 | 6 he data shows that to creative practitioners under the between March and June CARE Programme. T 2020, more than 10,000 We estimate that Practitioners who have received community bars were closed, 560 “as much as J$26 or will receive funding under the round robins were not held (usually CARE Programme will not be there are at least sixty per week), the Billion has been eligible to receive assistance from festivals and events economy, lost and more this special support package. including such activities as Calabash than 40,000 This is good news for our sectors. Literary Festival, Caribbean Fashion creative and The greatest assistance that we Week, Style Week and the over 7,200 sports-related can provide to our athletic and events that would have been held in creative practitioners is to ensure towns and communities across jobs have been that they can return to doing what Jamaica were all shuttered. affected since they love to do in a way that secures Also losing out have been our covid. public health. In this regard we elite sportsmen and sportswomen. have been in discussion with our One athlete reported losing J$14 stakeholders, the Ministry of Health million since March. Mr. Speaker,” learning from the and Wellness as well as the Ministry We estimate that as much as J$26 experience with creative industries of Local Government and Billion has been lost and more than practitioners, we are also moving to Community Development as we 40,000 creative and sports-related an Athletes Management System regroup and re-engineer for a jobs have been affected since covid. and Registry to give support to phased re-opening of the sectors. As the chief advocate for creative athletes as they emerge from So far, Government has approved and athletic people, I have been covid-19. The Athletes’ protocols for: engaging in discussion with Management System and Registry - national Track and Field athletes to members of the community on how will assist in the development of resume training at Independence we can re-group and re-engineer to policy and programmes and will Park; get them back on track. It is clear help to calculate the contribution of - water sports national that the most vulnerable players in sport to national development. representatives to resume training the creative and athletic sectors I appeal to athletes, coaches and at the National Aquatics Centre; need support; and we have been other stakeholders in the sports - resumption of horse racing at providing support in a number of sector to sign up to the registry. Caymanas Park; ways. While we develop the sports - resumption of golf at Half Moon Through the National Registry of registry, we have also been working and Constant Spring golf clubs Entertainment and Creative to assist vulnerable athletes to get - the holding of Athletics time trials Industries Practitioners in my assistance from the CARE at Jamaica College over the Ministry, we have been supporting Programme. weekend to record official applications for relief through the In addition to support provided performances for Jamaican CARE Programme. We have been by CARE, I have been in discussion athletes to be submitted to World using the e-Registry to validate that with the Minister of Finance and the Athletics (formerly the IAAF). Tom Strokes who says he’s an Public Service, Dr the Honourable We are going through the entertainer or entertainment Nigel Clarke, and his team about a approvals process for the practitioner is indeed a member of special support package for the resumption of other sports the industry and his application creative and athletic sectors to assist competitions and training for should be considered. them to get back on track. national level athletes in discussion I use this opportunity to I am pleased to announce that with the Ministry of Local encourage entertainment and $40 Million has been approved by Government and Community creative industries practitioners to the Ministry of Finance to assist the Development, health authorities as sign up to the registry. Individual Culture and Entertainment sector. I well as the various national registration since March has have received multiple stories of the federations/associations. increased by more than 1,000% over harsh fnancial impact covid has had Additionally, protocols were the similar period last year; and on the sectors. announced to permit the re- company registrations have The J$40 Million is in addition to opening of Cinemas, Theatres and increased by 87%. the J$10.6 Million that will be paid Playhouses as of Sunday, July 5 — SECTORAL DEBATE 2020/21 | 7 for a period of 14 days, in the frst but because of how they help to We are focused on each of those instance. This includes spaces such improve our quality of life and 76,000 people, their families and the as church and school auditoriums, provide a boost to our mental wider public as we develop and community centres that are health as we face challenges, such protocols to gradually re-open the used for these kinds of activities. as this pandemic. sectors. I continue to remind I thank the Minister of Local Mr. Speaker, these are serious stakeholders to comply with the Government and Community industries. Through these industries, protocols so that we can get back to Development, the Honourable many families have food on their work, improve our quality of life, Desmond McKenzie, and his team tables and roofs over their heads; while maintaining public health. who have worked very hard in the our national profle is enlarged; development of these protocols. people come here and do business We continue to work through the with Jamaica because of our issues and protocols that will be creative and athletic people.
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