My Fellow Jamaicans and friends: This forty-second anniversary of our Independence is a time for all Jamaicans to reflect and to be ready for the next phase of our nation’s development. I believe we can do so with assurance and optimism. At the dawn...
From time to time when the issue of Independence is discussed, doubts are raised about what we have achieved over the years. The answer is that we have achieved far less than we should have accomplished. Jamaica is an island blessed with resources...
Another page in the annals of our nation’s history is being written today. Any review of the period leading up to this time, will see a people determinedly pursuing the path to social, economic and spiritual development. As we do this, we must...
Emancipation is one of the most important holidays in the Jamaican calendar. It marks the freedom of slaves in 1934. This was a hallelujah day! What followed was not hallelujah, however. The emancipated slaves, in most cases, refused to work on the...
My Fellow Jamaicans: This year, we celebrate the 170th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. With freedom came the end of an era when hundreds of thousands – no, millions – of persons who inhabited Jamaica, the Caribbean and the...
NEW YORK, JULY 26, 2004 (JIS) One of the United States’ most well known landmarks, the Empire State Building in New York City, will be lit in the colours of the Jamaican flag August 6-8, 2004 in honour of Jamaica’s 42nd year of Independence. The...
The observance of the National Day of a country remains always an occasion for the display of national pride and patriotism by all its citizens. On this occasion of Jamaica’s Forty-Second Anniversary of Independence, I take great pleasure in...
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JIS Washington (July 9, 2004) Professor Gordon Shirley, former head of the Mona School of Business at the University of the West Indies, assumed office on Wednesday (July 7) as Jamaica’s new Ambassador to the United States (US) as well as the...
STATEMENT MADE IN GRENADA BY PRIME MINISTER P.J. PATTERSON, ON, PC, QC, MP ON THE PASSING OF THE MOST HON. HUGH LAWSON SHEARER FORMER PRIME MINSITER OF JAMAICA JULY 5, 2004 I have been deeply saddened by the news of the passing of...
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