On Tuesday October 16, 2018, the St. Ann Municipal Corporation participated in the All Island Local Government Run recieving local government month messages from the Governor General, the Prime Minister, the Leader. //pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.jsPrime Minister Holds Productive Meeting with Opposition Story Highlights I have a vision of a Christmas in Jamaica where each person exemplifies Jesus’ ethic of love for neighbor and peace and goodwill toward everyone.If Jamaica needs a real leader it is right this minute, we can no longer what is being offered to us a leadership by the Right Honourable Portia Simpson Miller. Poor leadership has been Jamaica’s biggest problem for years, but this is the absolute worse that we have ever been subjected to.It is inconceivable that after three leaders as Prime Minister , Portia Simpson Miller has addressed the nation only twice on matters of national importance.
Often they screamed out in pain. We celebrate today the struggle of our forefathers and mothers who were displaced, mistreated – whipped, chained raped and bludgeoned. The following is the Emancipation Day Message from the Prime Minister of Jamaica Portia Simpson Miller.O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.Today we celebrate One Hundred and Eighty One years of Emancipation. Now if the cabinet ministers were performing, then I could understand that approach, but given the fact that not a single one is performing , it begs the question about the capability of Portia Simpson Miller to continue in this position.We do not need a ceremonial Prime Minister, we already have a Governor General serving in that capacity , what we need is a leader who is focused on moving the country forward even if that means putting the party at risk for an election loss.
Jamaica Prime Minister 2015 Free In Body
As our first National Hero Marcus Garvey told us, in order to achieve national progress we must: "Emancipate ourselves from mental slavery." In this context, the history of Emancipation and current economic development discussions are now linked in a common narrative.Plantation slavery and Emancipation are real life events in our history as a people. We cannot grow and prosper unless we are free in body, mind and spirit. They sought to ensure that we who came after them, would never face the horrors of slavery as they did.Freedom is an absolute necessity in shaping the future of any society. No wonder then, that countless of our ancestors gave their lives, making the ultimate sacrifice, in the fight for freedom.In the public square of Montego Bay, Samuel Sharpe declared in 1832, just before the vile system of slavery ended that: "I would rather die on yonder gallows than live in slavery." He gave voice to and took action on behalf of men and women includingThese brave men and women went before us.
This is a tribute to our resilience as a people. We are the great-great grand-children of survivors! Today we number more than (three) million people at home in Jamaica and in the diaspora. They carved their contribution into the pages of our country’s history.We are the sons and daughters of the 25 percent of those who arrived and survived. One quarter of those who made the journey, lived and were forced to toil, often under inhumane conditions.
At other times, we have provided solidarity in the cause of justice.We continue to celebrate with our brothers and sisters, the people of Haiti who like the Maroons of Jamaica, denounced slavery and battled for their freedom. From time to time we have provided the necessary leadership. Before and after Nanny before and after Daddy Sam Sharpe before and after Paul Bogle before and after George William Gordon – before and after Garvey, Bustamante, and Manley, we have, as a people done what we had to do, to drive the injustices of slavery out of our land.The People of Jamaica have always seen their struggle for freedom and justice as a national, Caribbean and global fight.
With the consistent support of Jamaica’s representatives at the UN, our country promoted the idea of the memorial. It calls for a global programme of action for the uplifting and advancement of Africans who have suffered the injustice of slavery.The UN also unveiled at its Headquarters in New York a Permanent Memorial in remembrance of the horrors of the Trans Atlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans.I was honoured to have represented the people of Jamaica as I participated in these events. Yet, we must never, ever forget.This year the United Nations declared 2015 to 2024 the decade of People of African Descent.
The enslaved and their descendants received no compensation.In 1938, our great Caribbean Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, Sir Arthur Lewis, reflecting on the 100 years since emancipation, wrote that the matter of 200 years of unpaid slave labour is yet to be addressed.As we reflect on the brutality of plantation slavery, on July 30, Jamaica joined the global community in the observance of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – Another form of slavery. This payment served to sustain their wealth and status. Many have written and spoken of the massive compensation British slave-owners in Jamaica and elsewhere received from the British government.The sum of 20 million British Pounds paid out to 46,000 slave owners between 18 is today valued at 17billion British Pounds.
Therefore our relentless efforts against slavery in any form - past, present or future, will continue.The Jamaican national sense of outrage against injustice, and our history of fanning the flames of freedom, will not allow us to condone human trafficking.Today, the love of liberty burns as brightly in Jamaica as it did among the slaves who fought valiantly and successfully to abolish slavery and to herald the Emancipation of the enslaved.Today, we move forward as one nation, under God’s guidance, fulfilling our collective destiny of freedom, peace and prosperity for all.I wish every Jamaican at home and in the diaspora, and all the people of the Caribbean, and Africans globally, a peaceful and reflective Emancipation day 2015.
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