GraceKennedy

The GraceKennedy Foundation will host its annual GraceKennedy lecture on Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 5:00 p.m at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel. The topic will be “Sport in Jamaica, A local and International Perspective”. The lecture focuses on football, cricket, netball and track and field as these are the sports which have consistently brought Jamaica the most international recognition. It also provides a number of viable recommendations for the development of the individual sports as well as how to exploit sport, generally, as a critical ingredient in nation building. 

This year’s lecturer will be Mr. Delano Franklyn former Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. An Attorney-at-Law and trained teacher, Mr. Franklyn was educated at Kingston College, Mico Teachers’ College, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, Cave Hill, Barbados, and the Norman Manley Law School, Mona Jamaica.

Since 1989, the Foundation has invited a person of distinction to lecture on a subject of political, economic or social concern to Jamaica and the Caribbean in order to initiate public debate and commentary at all levels of society. The first lecturer was Hon. G. Arthur Brown, then Governor of the Bank of Jamaica. Other lecturers over the years have included Ambassador Richard Bernal “Globalization: Everything but Alms, the EPA and Economic Development”, Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan, “Children Caught in the Crossfire”, and Kenneth Sylvester, “Information Communication Technology: Shaping our lives”.

The 2009 lecturer was Professor Anthony Harriott, Director of the UWI Institute of criminal justice and security and head of the department of government. He spoke on the topic, “Controlling Violent Crime: Models and Policy Options”.

The GraceKennedy Foundation distributes copies of the lectures to schools and public libraries in the hope that the lectures reach will extend beyond those present at its delivery. Copies of the lectures are also available for sale through the Foundation.