Basseterre, St Kitts; 30 October 2016: The Jamaican Kittitian (JamKit) Association shares the following messsage from His Excellency The Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen ON, GCMG, CD, Kst.J, Governor General of Jamaica.
Theme: “Our Heritage…Our Legacy…Our Strength”
I greet you very warmly and commend the JCDC for spearheading this ceremony to culminate Heritage Week 2016.
This year’s theme “Our Heritage…Our Legacy…Our Strength” draws together the past and the future and centers both on the present.
We have a rich heritage of which we should be proud.
The Maroon wars with Nanny emerging as one of its fearless, peerless leaders; the sacrificial leadership of Samuel Sharpe, Paul Bogle and George William Gordon cleared a path of hope for Jamaica. That path led Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Alexander Bustamante and Norman Washington Manley to inspire and develop the foundational structures of government with policies which have brought us into a confident fifty-four-year-old independent nation.
My fellow Jamaicans, we have the responsibility today to seize the moment and use our gains in ways which will make our actions count. We must use every opportunity to build our lives and the life of our nation on foundations which are secure: values which are sound and sustainable; relationships which demonstrate sensitivity and respect, and actions which reflect an inescapable ‘duty of care.’
We must continue to use the inspiration and the opportunities created by our Heroes, as well as the traditions of our parents, to serve as the template to open new horizons of social progress, of economic growth and individual excellence. The future is a canvas awaiting the picture that this generation and Jamaicans unborn are to paint.
I greet you warmly and remind you of the increasingly accepted proposition that we must continue to use “what is right with Jamaica to fix what is wrong with Jamaica.”
God bless you and God bless Jamaica, Land We Love.
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