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Jamaica's envoy to the United States, Professor Gordon Shirley (right) congratulates Jamaican, Monique Johnson Miss Johnson who graduated from Howard University on Saturday May 12, 2007 with a Bachelor of Business Administration -Finance and was among the over two thousand students who received their degrees.

Ambassador Shirley congratulates Jamaican Graduate

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Jamaica's envoy to the United States, Professor Gordon Shirley (right)  congratulates  Jamaican, Monique Johnson Miss Johnson  who graduated from Howard University on Saturday May 12, 2007 with a Bachelor of Business Administration -Finance and was among the over two thousand students who
received their degrees.

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Why is it that sometimes the farther you are from the past the more you are drawn toward it? As a child I never talked much to my maternal grandparents about their lives growing up, where they came from, or how they came to immigrate to America. I knew of course they were both born in Jamaica, and were married and had my mom after they had moved to New York. My grandfather passed away when I was just 8. My grandmother lived well into her 90's.

Lester Holt: To Jamaica with Mom

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Why is it that sometimes the farther you are from the past the more you are drawn toward it? As a child I never talked much to my maternal grandparents about their lives growing up, where they came from, or how they came to immigrate to America. I knew of course they were both born in Jamaica, and were married and had my mom after they had moved to New York. My grandfather passed away when I was just 8. My grandmother lived well into her 90's
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