Chronology cont'd
 

2004
The Foundation on March 4 launched a series of events under the theme "The Vision Lives On" to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birth of Michael Manley, to culminate on his birthday on December 10.

The Michael Manley website at www.michaelmanley.org was launched on May 21, the Foundation's fifth anniversary.

The Michael Manley monument at National Heroes Park, which was restored after early weather damage, was rededicated on May 28 in a brief ceremony attended by Manley family and Foundation members and officials of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

The fifth Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance was presented on August 2 to the Amity Hall Development Committee, which entombed a spring and gravity-fed water through scavenged mains into the community's sixty households.

The second annual awards in the Michael Manley Essay Competitions were presented on August 26.

The Michael Manley Centre, a depository and showcase of Mr. Manley's documents and memorabilia, was opened by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson at 1A Hope Boulevard, Kingston 6, on the 80th anniversary of Mr. Manley's birth, December 10. Also on that day, poet and biographer Rachel Manley, the late former Prime Minister's daughter  delivered the third Michael Manley Lecture on "The Quest for a Caribbean Voice", at the Sagicor LOJ Auditorium in New Kingston. 

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