PM Golding Calls for Respect and Unity in Emancipation Day Message

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called on Jamaicans to show respect for each other’s freedom and the right of everyone to live peacefully and seek after their well being. He said that as free people, Jamaicans must strive and work together to attain the happiness and prosperity that were denied for so many years under slavery
In his Emancipation day message to the Jamaican people, Mr. Golding said that when individuals and entire communities are forced to live in fear, their condition is not much different from what was experienced under the slave masters.
‘When we sow seeds of disunity and set one against the other, we are employing the same tactics that were used in slavery. When we disrespect each other, we are behaving just like the slave master who disrespected us’, Mr. Golding said.
He assured all Jamaicans that slavery, although cruel and of a degrading nature, defines us as a people and that this point should never leave the Jamaican psyche. ‘It is not something that should be kept out of our resume, because it is a testimony to our strength and capacity to endure and to overcome, to triumph over adversity’,