Olivia Grange

Olivia ' Babsy ' Grange ( * April 27, 1946 ) is a Jamaican politician of the Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ). She was from 2007 until early 2012, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture (Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture ) of Jamaica.

Life

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 called Contrast to life, Canada's first newspaper for the African American community. Grange also worked with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. As Chief Executive Officer of Entertainment Promotions Company she worked as an event manager, among other things, for a number of reggae musicians such as Leroy Sibbles, Shabba Ranks and Lady Patra.

Policy

Grange returned in the 1970s back to Jamaica, but then went to a detention during the state of emergency in 1976, returned to Canada in exile. When she after the end of the Government of the People's National Party returned in 1980 for a vacation to Jamaica, she was by Edward Seaga, who had just won previously with the JLP the election and was elected Prime Minister, invited him in West Kingston to working. She organized there youth cultural programs etc.

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

She is since 1997 Member of the Jamaican Parliament ( Members of Parliament ). She has served in various public and party offices, it was among other things, Minister of State (Minister of State ), with responsibility for Information and Culture and is a former deputy general secretary and public relations officer of Jamaica Labour Party.

In the parliamentary elections on September 3, 2007, she was selected as the candidate of the JLP for the constituency of St. Catherine Central from the House of Representatives. The JLP won the majority in this election and formed the new government. Grange was appointed Minister for Information, Youth, Sports and Culture and sworn in on September 14. In a cabinet reshuffle on 6 April 2009 her ministry handed over the responsibility for information, then they Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture. She remained minister until the election defeat of the JLP on December 29, 2011. Since she won her constituency also in this election, she remained a member of the House of Representatives. On January 19, 2012 Opposition Leader Andrew Holness appointed her to the opposition spokesperson for youth, sports and cultural policy.