Two cities within the state of Iowa, USA, are gearing up to participate on this 12 months’s Jamaica Day festivities on Friday, February 23, themed ‘Celebrating Jamaica: Genuine and Distinctive… A Fi Wi TREND A Dweet’.
Residents of Waterloo and Cedar Falls, alongside native officers, have come collectively to arrange a collection of actions to coincide with the island’s celebrations.
Marlon Williams, Chair of the Jamaica Day Planning Committee and Senior Training Officer on the Ministry of Training and Youth’s Core Curriculum Unit, highlighted the importance of those engagements. He famous that whereas Jamaicans within the diaspora have been observing Jamaica Day for years, this marks the primary formal celebration by any metropolis exterior of the nation.
The Nationwide Civic ceremony for Jamaica Day will happen at William Knibb Excessive Faculty in Trelawny, a featured native instructional establishment. The occasion will embrace shows, cultural performances, and the honoring of Olympian Usain Bolt because the Tradition Icon for 2024.
In Cedar Falls and Waterloo, civic ceremonies can even be held, the place proclamations shall be learn declaring the final Friday of February as Jamaica Day yearly. Each cities will showcase numerous facets of Jamaican tradition all through the day.
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Williams encourages Jamaicans worldwide to take part within the celebrations by donning the nationwide colours of Black, Inexperienced, and Gold, or conventional bandana apparel.
What’s Jamaica Day?
Jamaica Day is an annual celebration that pays tribute to the nation’s distinctive traits and its world contributions. Organized underneath the Tradition in Training Program, this special occasion is overseen by the Ministry of Training, Youth, and Data.
The first focus of the day is kids, who gown in conventional bandanas and the nation’s colours to highschool. Different cultural occasions are additionally held throughout the island
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Jamaica Day has been celebrated yearly on the final Friday of February since 2011, as proclaimed by Governor Normal Sir Patrick Allen, besides underneath adversarial circumstances.
