RJR News has been informed that the issue of the expungement of Marcus Garvey’s criminal record in the United States was raised by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller during this morning’s bilateral meeting with President Barack Obama.
Our sources indicate that the president has promised to look into the request.
Garvey was convicted of Mail Fraud in the United States after a trial which end on June 23, 1923.
Marcus Garvey appealed his conviction, but was denied.
In 1927 he was released from prison and deported to Jamaica.
Garvey continued his political activism and the work of UNIA in Jamaica, and then moved to London in 1935.
Garvey died in London in 1940; twenty years later, his body was removed and taken to Jamaica, where the government proclaimed him Jamaica’s first national hero and re-interred him at a shrine in the National Heroes Park.
Sounds good–let’s see what happens next…
No disrespect to the Hon. Marcus Garvey, but aren’t there pressing issues that could be of immediate revival to Jamaica’s dying economy?
suh me seh tuh …….it clear tomorrow and? love the the president but half the promise dem have nothing to do with jamaica . when him talk about change in the carribean him talking about cuba….smh…..
Ah dat mi ah seh tuh :2thumbup Ah nuh tideh denm ah wait fi get eena Cuba business. Mi rate President Obama pon nuff levels…..but mi waan Raul Castro big him up wid two Cuban cigars an ah desso di story fi dead. Mi nuh trust ‘Merika cah dem history nuh pretty….::travel