Sir Godfrey GreggSir Godfrey Gregg Here are some legitimate ways a man can truly find himself: 1) Commit to a Relationship: I don’t care if it’s a puppy or a plant (but better if it’s a human), being in a relationship where someone depends on you requires you to sacrifice and make…
Sir Godfrey GreggSir Godfrey Gregg Just want to change the tone for the week and if all goes well I will drop some more info or advice later in the week. Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue – to the end that we should hear…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY JOSEPH PALMER Whalebones are large enough to hide in plain sight, which occasionally makes for unsettling revelations. At Toko’s Stepdown Bar, for example, several whales’ ribs discreetly serve as handrails down the length of the outdoor staircase leading to the venue’s entrance. They are a somewhat morbid reminder…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggFor those who follow the Royals and the news Prince Phillip will be stepping back from active duties but knowing him the work continues in the background. Queen Elizabeth 11 at ninety-one (91) has scaled back from public duties and has placed Prince William more in the spot light with…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggInfluence The UNIA flag uses three colors: red, black and green. Schools, colleges, highways, and buildings in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States have been named in his honor. The UNIA red, black, and green flag has been adopted as the Black Liberation Flag. Since 1980, Garvey’s bust has been housed…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBajan distress at investment citizenship The recent arrival in Barbados of two persons who exercised their CARICOM rights to a prolonged stay on the island, obtained through a member state’s Citizenship by Investment program has Prime Minister Freundel Stuart uneasy. The Barbadian leader has reported that the persons, who…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggRemembering LIAT Flight 319 Please note: It’s now 31 years. It is now thirty- one (31) years since Vincentians at home and abroad were plunged into their most horrifically tragic air disaster in the history of commercial air flight in St Vincent and the Grenadines. It was on August 3, 1986,…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggDeath Garvey died in London on 10 June 1940, at the age of 52, having suffered two strokes, putatively after reading a mistaken, and negative, obituary of himself in the Chicago Defender in January earlier that same year, which stated, in part, that Garvey died “broke, alone and unpopular”. Due to travel…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggLater years In 1928, Garvey travelled to Geneva to present the Petition of the Negro Race. This petition outlined the worldwide abuse of Africans to the League of Nations. In September 1929, he founded the People’s Political Party (PPP), Jamaica’s first modern political party, which focused on workers’ rights, education, and aid to the poor. Also…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe uncertainty of life comes and goes and so with pregnancy to the point of giving birth. Man will never understand what it is even to seeing the natural birth in progress. I saw one and was amazed, but the real father lost consciousness and fell on the floor while he…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggCharge of mail fraud In a memorandum dated 11 October 1919,[36] J. Edgar Hoover, special assistant to the Attorney General and head of the General Intelligence Division (or “anti-radical division”)[37] of The Bureau of Investigation or BOI (after 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation),[38] wrote to Special Agent Ridgely regarding Garvey: “Unfortunately, however, he [Garvey]…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggIt was a nail biting day when her mom was in the hospital waiting for delivery. Being hundred of miles away, and my only child I was waiting to hear the good news or that she was OK. After hours of waiting for the phone beep and the good…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggConflicts with Du Bois and others On 4 October 1916, the Daily Gleaner in Kingston published a letter written by Raphael Morgan, a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, together with over a dozen other like-minded Jamaican-Americans, who wrote in to protest against Garvey’s lectures.[25] Garvey’s views on Jamaica, they felt, were damaging to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMarriage and family At the age of 32 in 1919, Garvey married his first wife, Amy Ashwood Garvey. Amy Ashwood Garvey was also a founder of The UNIA-ACL. She had saved Garvey in the Tyler assassination by quickly getting medical help. After four months of marriage, Garvey separated from…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggViews on communism “Fundamentally what racial difference is there between a white Communist, Republican or Democrat?” —Marcus Garvey[23] Garvey is known as a leading political figure because of his determination to fight for the unity of African Americans by creating the Universal Negro Improvement Association and rallying to gather supporters to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggOrganization of UNIA In 1914, Garvey returned to Jamaica, where he organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). In an article titled “The Negro’s Greatest Enemy”, published in Current History (September 1923), Garvey explained the origin of the organization’s name: Where did the name of the organization come from? It was while…
Read moreSir Godfrey Gregg1932 The First Aircraft To Land In St. Vincent Michael Cipriani was the first pilot to land an airplane on the island of St.Vincent. Michael flew from Trinidad landed in St. Vincent on the 29th July 1932 and later continued his flight to Barbados. The de Havilland Moth airplane…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggEarly years Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was born as the youngest of eleven children in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr., mason, and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker. Only his sister Indiana along with Marcus survived to adulthood.[7][8] His family was financially stable given the circumstances of this time…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThanking God for another day and for the family is alive and well. It is truly amazing how the little ones catch up so fast like Shamie who I haven’t seen in the flesh or hold. However, whenever she sees her Grandpa on the chat she gets so excited.…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggNo gay marriage for the Caribbean, West Indian archbishops say The Church of the Province of the West Indies will not follow the American lead and agree to solemnize gay weddings, Archbishop John Holder, Bishop of Barbados declared last week. Speaking in the wake of the U.S. Supreme…
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