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  • Photo of Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback

    Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback

    Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (2nd right) participates in the unveiling of the “Ark of Return” – the Permanent Monument to honour the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade at the UN Visitors Plaza, New York on Wednesday, March 25. With the Prime Minister are (from left) Architect and Designer of the monument, Haitian American Rodney Leon;…

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  • Photo of UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative

    UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Wednesday thank the Caribbean Community andAfrican Union for their role in the initiation and creation of a permanent memorial to honor victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. The Memorial which is called the Ark of Return  was unveiled Wednesday in a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters. Rodney Leon, an architect of Haitian descent, living and working in New York, is the…

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