The ruling Jamaica Labour Party, JLP, victor of the September 3, 2007 election in Jamaica, is the recipient of the 2007 Global Youth Trust’s CANTABRIGIA Award.
The announcement of the award was made by Hon. Wilmot Max Ramsay, the president and executive director of Global Youth Trust, Inc., a U.S. non-profit organization, as Max Ramsay delivered the keynote address to mark the 25th anniversary, in Boston, Massachusetts, of Wilmot Max Ramsay Week, September 27 to October 3.
The honorary Week was named by the Boston City Council for then Jamaican Councillor Max Ramsay who at the time, in 1982, was the youngest elected representative in his native Jamaica. He was 18 years old when elected to the St. James Parish Council from the Cambridge Division.
In his address to mainly friends and acquaintances, Ramsay, who visited Jamaica for the recent poll, gave his assessment of the elections and praised the work of the Jamaican youth whom, he said, became the deciding factor in a very close election between the two major political parties – the Jamaica Labour Party, JLP, and the People’s National Party, PNP.
The Jamaica Labour Party, JLP, Ramsay said, was singled out for the award this year because it proved to be a bastion and guardian of democracy; the JLP’s “genius of galvanising and translating the youth vote to its advantage, especially by means of popular culture, [which] played a crucial part in such a close electoral showdown against its major rival, the People’s National Party, PNP,” Max Ramsay said in announcing the award to the JLP.
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