Marcus Garvey
Today is being observed as Marcus Garvey Day in Kingston and St. Andrew as well as St. Ann.
It's in keeping with resolutions passed in the St. Ann Parish Council last week and the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, KSAC on Tuesday.
KSAC Councillors agreed that August 17 will be observed annually as Marcus Garvey Day in recognition of the country's first national hero and the black pride he sought to encourage.
Chairperson of the KSAC, Senator Angella Brown-Burke, said in commemorating the 125th anniversary of Garvey's birth, the KSAC will posthumously honour him with the Keys to the City of Kingston
It will be received by his son Dr. Julius Garvey who arrived in the island yesterday to participate in three days of activities to mark his father's birthday.
There are a number of activities to commemorate the birthday of Jamaica’s first national hero in his birthplace St Ann .
Garveyism as part of a wider civics curriculum, is to be taught in schools effective this September.
The programme is to be launched by the Education Ministry at Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann's Bay today.
Other activities include the opening of The Garvey Resource Centre at the St Ann's Bay Parish Library and the unveiling of a story board.
Garvey was a political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, philosopher, black nationalist, and a proponent of the pan-Africanist movement.
Garvey died in England on June 10, 1940.
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