THE MONTHLY GLEANER | SEPTEMBER 7 - OCTOBER 7, 2023 | www.jamaica-gleaner.com | NEWS 10 You remembered their books. You remembered their forms. You remembered their schedules. They’re safe and reduce the risk of severe preventable illnesses, like measles, polio, chickenpox, flu and COVID-19. Talk to your child’s health care provider to make sure they are up to date with their immunizations. For more information, visit nyc.gov/studentvaccines or call 311. Vaccines are required for children to stay in school and day care. Be sure to remember their vaccines. Eric Adams Mayor Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD Commissioner THE ST. Jago Past Students’ Association, USA-INC (NewYork Chapter) presents its O.R. Bell Laureate and Reunion Banquet on Saturday, September 23, at Antun’s, 96-43 Springfield Blvd, Queens, NewYork. The O. R. Bell Awards Banquet serves as the core of the organisation’s fundraising efforts as we try to raise funds to complete projects at the school and to help maintain its infrastructure. Funds generated have also been the most significant source of funding for scholarship programmes. The 2023 honouree and recipient of the Distinguished Service Award will be Daphne Pettigrew-Innerarity, an educator of 25 years who also served in representational politics as a councillor from 1998-2003, East Central St Catherine Division. St Jago High School, located in Spanish Town, Jamaica, was founded in 1744 and is one of the oldest continuously operated schools in the Western Hemisphere. This year, the association celebrates 279 years since the founding of St Jago High School, and 37 years of the founding of the association and service to our alma mater. Events THE EDITOR, Madam: September 7, 2023 will mark two years since the first CARICOM-Africa Union (AU) Summit, hosted by Kenya. The first Summit of Heads decided to establish for celebration, September 7th of every year, as AfricaCARICOM Day. The PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Public Advocacy strongly supports the opportunity it presents for activities geared at greater African and Caribbean unity. The Caribbean and the African continent share a similar history of an oppressive, exploitative experience. In our most recent history of Independence, CARICOM and Africa were supportive of each other and drew inspiration from the works of individuals that advocated for freedom and instilled the hopes of the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who declared, “Africa for the Africans at home or abroad”. Since our independence, CARICOM and the AU nations have had many fora within which their representatives have discussed and made several agreements, such as the African, Caribbean and the Pacific Group of States since the 1970s. The CARICOM-AU Summit of 2021 was the most significant for present and future cooperation and unification. The spheres for cooperation in education, tourism, technology and knowledge exchange, economic transformation, governance, and the creative industries are many and prospects of rewards so great, that it is long overdue for an entrenchment to be made for this purpose. In support of Africa-CARICOM Day, the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Public Advocacy will be collaborating with the Office of the Vice-Chancellor of The University of theWest Indies (UWI) and its entities the Office of Global Affairs and the Centre for Reparation Research, to host the first Africa-CARICOM Day Seminar at the Regional Headquarters of The University of theWest Indies on September 7 at 9:30 EST, which will be broadcast on UWI TV and CARICOMYouTube and Facebook channels. The public is invited to watch and participate from wherever you are on the African continent, in the Caribbean, or in the diaspora in this seminal event that will feature participation fromVice-Chancellor of the UWI, Sir Hilary Beckles; StatesmanIn-Residence at the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Public Advocacy, the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson; Secretary General of CARICOM Dr Carla Barnett; noted academics and public officials and student leaders. The PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Public Advocacy is committed to the cause of building bridges between nations and the people of the AU and CARICOM to engage in activities which will promote a truly symbolic relationship. This seminar is intended to be a building block in the process of forging unity between our nations and people. P.J. PATTERSON Statesman-In-Residence The PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Public Advocacy Building bridges between Africa Union and CARICOM [EDITORIAL] In our most recent history of Independence, CARICOM and Africa were supportive of each other and drew inspiration from the works of individuals that advocated for freedom and instilled the hopes of the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who declared, “Africa for the Africans at home or abroad”.
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