Tag: Andrew Michael Holness

JAMAICA INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE (2014) FROM OPPOSITION LEADER MR. ANDREW HOLNESS Independence marked a major milestone in our journey towards nationhood and the creation of our Jamaican State. That journey started with the arrival of Columbus in 1492 and the subsequent conquest, exploitation and establishment of a system of enslavement and a plantation society under European colonial rule which lasted for 470 years until our Independence 1962. After World War II European Empires receded as their economies and armies tried to rebuild and nationalist fervour in the colonies grew. Colonialism…

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