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Photo Highlights: Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference Launch

July 24, 2017
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Photo Highlights: Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference Launch
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), offers words of encouragement to recipients of the 2017 Governor-General's Achievement Award for the Diaspora during a ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston on Sunday (July 23). They are (from left) Lawyer, Vendrys Henry; Future Leader in the Jamaican Diaspora in the North East of the United States of America, and Adult Education Programme Developer, Erin Lue-Hing; and President of the Jamaican Bar Association, Joan Pinnock. They are among six recipients of the award. The others are: Executive Board Member and Communications Chair of the Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation, Future Leaders Chapter, Donika Jones; Business Developer and Trainer, Tanesha Westcarr; and Superintendent of Education in the Toronto District School Board in Canada, Bishop Glenroy Duffus. Also pictured (from second right) are: Jamaica's High Commissioner to Canada, her Excellency Janice Miller; and Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks.

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The Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference kicked off with with an opening ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston yesterday, (July 23).

The three-day event will facilitate dialogue between diaspora business interests, philanthropic groups, young people of Jamaican descent and Jamaicans at home.

Activities for the conferences – which is being held under the theme, ‘Partnering for Growth’- move to the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston today.

 

Last Updated: July 24, 2017

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