The Jamaica Observer19d
A national hero lumped with criminals
On Monday, January 20, 2025, both leading daily print media houses in Jamaica ran stories about the United States President Joe Biden’s decision to grant a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s first ...
The Jamaica Observer20d
46 is the lucky number
Jamaica’s first national hero. In his last full day in office Biden pardoned Garvey and four others, and commuted the sentences of two people who he said demonstrated remorse, rehabilitation ...
New York Daily News9y
Birthday of Jamaican national hero Marcus…
Jamaican national hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey ... Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Jamaica Progressive League organization will commemorate the 128th anniversary of Garvey’s birth ...
Global Voices Online20d
After decades of campaigning, Jamaicans rejoice over President Biden’s pardon of National Hero Marcus Garvey
Jamaica's North Coast Times shared the news from the parish of St. Ann, the birthplace of Marcus Mosiah Garvey: U.S. President Joe Biden, on his last day in office, had pardoned the first, and ...
Miami Herald20d
More than a century after mail fraud conviction, Marcus Garvey gets presidential pardon
Pan-African leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey, convicted of mail fraud in 1923 in the U.S., is buried at National Heroes Park in Kingston. His remains were brought to Jamaica in 1964 after his death in ...