Projects The fifth Award, in 2004, went to the Amity Hall Development Committee. The Amity Hall community, lacking piped water, planned and implemented a project to entomb a spring above the district and gravity-feed water through scavenged mains into some sixty households in the community. Guest speakers at the award functions have been Mr Randall Robinson, President of the Washington-based TransAfrica Forum; Dr Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St Vincent & The Grenadines; Professor Rex Nettleford, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies; The Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica; and Ms Diane Abbott, British Parliamentarian. LECTURES The Michael Manley Lecture is an annual event to mark the birthday of Michael Manley, December 10. The inaugural lecture took place in January 2003 when the distinguished  Caribbean scholar and Prime Minister of St Lucia, the Hon. Dr Kenny Anthony, addressed the question: "Has the moment passed? Reflections on Caribbean integration after Michael Manley". The second lecture was delivered on December 10, 2003, by Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and Director Emeritus of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO), on the subject: "Globalisation and the challenges for Caribbean health". The third lecture, staged on December 10, 2004, the 80th anniversary of Mr Manley's birth, was delivered by his daughter Rachel, a celebrated poet and biographer, on "The quest for a Caribbean voice".    << BACK                                                                                                                  NEXT >>