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Caribbean Heritage Festival at Borough Hall Brooklyn. SJ Dodgson. MJoTA 2012 v6n1 p0621 On Jun 21, 2012, the 7th Annual Caribbean Heritage festival in Brooklyn's Borough Hall was filled with CACCI members (I am a member click here), Brooklyn Borough officials, Caribbean consular staff and persons with links to the Caribbean. Our keynote speaker at the morning's breakfast was Lowell Hawthorne, founder and CEO of Golden Krust, which he refers to as GK. GK is a manufacturing operation with 1700 stores, and a huge creator of jobs and wealth in Caribbean communities. I met Lowell at the 2009 Christmas party, quiet, thoughtful man from Jamaica. What impressed me about him then is that he was not surrounded by handlers or sycophants, and is clearly a serious man of deep faith that translates into understanding that he has been given the ability to work hard for good. Listen to him speak to other audiences about his ascent from poverty in Jamaica and in New York through to today, click here. In the afternoon we went outside and sat on the steps of Borough Hall and watched dancers and singers, and the biggest star was Mighty Sparrow. Above, Mighty Sparrow talking with son of Grenada Dr Roy A Hastick snr, who is the president of CACCI. At the right, you can see me dancing to his music. |
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