MONDAY is the Emancipation Day holiday and Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell is offering best wishes of the people of Fox Hill on the 179th anniversary of the freeing of all slaves.
He said: “We in Fox Hill have continuously celebrated the day from that day to this. In doing so, we are reminded that the struggle for freedom never stops and that we cannot stop until all people are free. Modern day slavery to personal debt and to trafficking in persons continue in this country and throughout the world. We are in a struggle here for economic empowerment.
“We are fighting people to stop them from using our country to traffic in persons. The struggle continues.”
A two-week long festival in Fox Hill marks the anniversary, with Junkanoo on Monday morning, August 5, and an ecumenical service on the Fox Hill park by the community elders of Fox Hill in the presence of the Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes.
Mr Mitchell will deliver a lecture on Wednesday, August 7, at the Mt Carey Baptist Church beginning at 8pm.
This lecture is specially commissioned by Prime Minister Perry Christie.
On Thursday, August 8, Springfield Gardens Road, where the former MP for Fox Hill lives, will be renamed Frank Edgecombe Street at 6.30pm by the PM.
The celebrations climax with Fox Hill Day and the “climbing of the greasy pole” on Tuesday, August 13.
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