To Jamaicans, British honours have the same status as foreign-made products. During the 1970s Michael Manley did not accept appointment to the Monarch's Privy Council. When he lost the election in the 1980 he was divested of the title 'Honourable' and for the following nine years was just Mr. When he returned to office in 1989, he accepted the Privy Councilship and became Right Honourable for life.
Other awardees include public servant and former parliamentarian Victor McKay; World War II Veteran Oscar Peters; former Director of Sport Patrick Whyte and former educator Lesroy Merchant. Awardees included public servant and former parliamentarian Victor McKay; World War Il Veteran Oscar Peters; former director of sport Patrick Whyte and former educator Lesroy Merchant.
Overall, the National Honours and Awards list this year appears bloated and excessive, perhaps because the new administration added to the already large number announced at Independence. The way to Hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. However well-meaning the intention may be in making these awards, care should be taken to avoid them being thrown around like confetti. Nothing should be done to diminish the value of the awards or cast the shadow of unfair and unfounded patronage over the receptionist, through a surfeit of official generosity. There one finds the teachers, nurses, farmers, social workers and other citizens who contribute to almost every phase of community development, freely and often at personal sacrifice. It is against that background that we admit to some dis...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding marked the celebration of Heroes Day with a speech that will long live in the memories of those who heard it. Golding reminded everyone, including the 105 who were receiving honours of various magnitude, that not everyone could be heroes or, more correctly, recognised as heroes! however, everyone could be heroic. That knowledge and the practice of it, Golding explained, could mean the improvement of the Jamaican society. Here are excerpts from Monday's speech. Newly-made member of the Order of Jamaica, Usain St Leo Bolt, is congratulated by Bruce Golding, prime minister of Jamaica, during Monday's presentation of National Honours and Awards on the lawn's of King's House. Governor General Sir Patrick Allen (left), confers the Order of Jamaica on Archbishop Em...
That is how Kaysi-Ann Spence, a vivacious young Jamaican woman ended our conversation. She had just told me how her `A' level results in 2000 at Manchester High School (in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Information Technology, Spanish and General Paper) gained her a full academic scholarship to Morgan State University (MSU) in Baltimore, U.S.A. Morgan's 6,000 plus students come from all 50 states in the USA and many from foreign countries. Since August 2000 she has been a candidate at MSU for the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. She expects to graduate in May this year. The high level of involvement she has demonstrated and her leadership and team player abilities have brought her many honours and awards at MSU. These include the Grant-Brett Promethean Kappa Tau Freshman (PKT...
IF THE PUBLIC had a say in who got medals in the New Year Honours, the awards for long and distinguished -- and well paid -- careers would surrender their traditional senior status to those who win recognition for bravery. Corporal Gerald Fenton, Trooper Phillip Cheater and Sergeant Ngametua Tetava did not join the New Zealand Army to get rich, nor for the dubious perk of free travel to East Timor. If they were curious about how they would perform under real and lethal fire, the experience has surely been enlightening and no doubt made them wiser soldiers and human beings generally. Sgt Tetava, supervising Australian training en route to evict pro- Indonesian militia from newly independent East Timor in 1999, made an instant decision to knock aside a young soldier who had mishandled a l...
She has achieved a great deal while at Morgan State and readily admits that her strong Christian beliefs and values have helped her to succeed and stay focused. Recently she was selected as one of two women to receive the "Morgan Outstanding Woman Student Award". However she said: "I consider getting into graduate school my greatest achievement so far and right now I have options for fully financed education at University of Maryland, College Park; Penn State and Yale University. Wherever she decides to go to work towards her Ph. D. [Sheree LaToya Bennett], whose mother is a dedicated Jamaican Spanish teacher, will take with her a happy, outgoing personality and a feeling of deep gratitude for "the excellent teachers and the high standard of education" she had in Jamaica. "I am a produ...
... been on the Dean's List and her many honours and awards include Junior of the Year in Political...
...This is achievable both through the honours system and by affording greater publicity to alterrnative awards. Higher level celebration of those who give will i...
The Order of National Hero is the highest of Jamaica's national honours and awards, which are presented to Jamaicans who have made sterling contributions to the development of the country. Only seven Jamaicans have so far received this national honour Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Paul Bogle, George William Gordon, Alexander Bustamante, Norman Washington Manley, Sam Sharpe and Nanny of the Maroons. National Heroes Day is celebrated each year on the third Monday in October.
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