Today, around 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty. These are 1 billion men, women and children around the world who are forced to make difficult daily choices between food, medicine, housing and education. For far too many, water is as much a luxury as a source of life. Education is a pri…
I would like to thank Ambassador Rattray and the Permanent Mission of Jamaica for their leadership and their efforts to bring this important subject to the forefront of the United Nations agenda.
The American author Robert Heinlein once said, “A generation that ignores history has no past … and no …
Allow me first to recognize and honour Ambassador Raymond Wolfe, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations.
We deeply appreciate Ambassador Wolfe’s immense contribution and dedication as Chair of the Permanent Memorial Committee on Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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