PM Golding wants to change political landscape

In addressing a capacity audience attending the second annual Community Service Awards ceremony at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Coconut Grove, downtown, Miami yesterday, (March 30) Mr. Golding said our politics must not be allowed to hold us back. He said Jamaicans must find a way to facilitate the competitiveness of our politics while ensuring that there is a set of goals that we all share.

Thirteen Jamaicans were honoured for their contribution to community life in South Florida. They include Dr Ivy Armstrong, poet, Assistant Director of Nursing; Samuel S Brown, first Jamaican elected Mayor of a City in Florida; Mrs. Elloreece Burrell, a retired nurse with more than 50-years of service and who has committed her life to community service; Glen Chin, NASA Mission Manager, Donald ‘Don’ Daly communicator; Beverly Ford, who has served as Honourary Consul of Jamaica in Houston; Captain Barrington Irving Jr., the youngest person and the first person of African descent to circumnavigate solo by aircraft; Michael and Jacqueline Shaw, producers and promoters of Jamaican culture; Rev Horace Ward, a clergyman for over 25 years serving 13 of those in South Florida; Dr Winston Whyte, for his contribution to education and the 2007 Principal of the year for Miami Dade County; Mrs. Joyce Wright founder and president of the Jamaica Nurses Association of Florida and Dr Karl S Wright, the first Jamaican to be appointed President of a historically black college or University in the USA.