chief executive officer of the S-Hotel chain in Jamaica, is among the long list of individuals lauding the United States’ posthumous pardon of Jamaican National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey ...
Jamaica's North Coast Times shared the news from the parish of St. Ann, the birthplace of Marcus Mosiah Garvey: U.S. President Joe Biden, on his last day in office, had pardoned the first, and ...
He is Jamaica’s first national hero ... Obama was pressed about clearing Garvey’s name. A national Jamaican hero, Garvey is buried inside the 50-acre park, which is also a botanical garden.
Holness thanked outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden, the Jamaican diaspora ... which follows Jamaica’s 2018 legislation absolving National Heroes and freedom fighters of wrongful convictions.
While his sentence was commuted by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927, successive Jamaican governments ... clearing the records of Jamaica’s National Heroes and freedom fighters who were ...
Writing on X, Jamaican Prime Minister ... Pan-Africanist leader and National Hero of Jamaica. “The long-awaited exoneration is testament to the unwavering advocacy of CARICOM leaders, both ...
Marcus Garvey is viewed by many as a civil rights icon who was ostracized by his own government. Advocates are again pressing ...
Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s ...
WE will probably never know for sure why it took so long for a United States president to at least partially put right a terrible wrong done to black nationalist and Jamaica’s first National ...
Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.
By Henry Muttoo, Cayman Islands In his foreword to the 1963 publication, The Artist in West Indian Society, the eminent West ...