JAMAICA DAY 2009
The Jamaica Society is hosting Jamaica Day 2009 Celebrating Lightning Bolt on Saturday 15 August 2009 at Longford Park and stadium in Trafford.The occasion is designed to celebrate Jamaican culture and achievement, provide opportunities for community and personal development, and be a wonderful family fun day for all communities in Gt Manchester.We are identifying and celebrating success within the Jamaican community to highlight positive alternative choices for young people and adults and ultimately stimulate an alternative public discourse of success about and within the community.
This year, for example, we are pleased to highlight the return of the son of Jamaica Society members, Wesley Tensel, who went off to Cambridge University to study medicine in 2002. He has now returned home as a qualified medical doctor working in Rochdale. With aspirations to become the team doctor for a professional football team, he is embarking on another degree in Sports and Exercise Medicine later this year to specialise in Sports Medicine and is currently Assistant team doctor at Rochdale Football Club.He will be taking his place, alongside the team of Jamaican-heritage nurses and doctors, serving the community on the day in the Walk-in clinic. We certainly will be highlighting his and his family’s success, as well as that of others, through a series of promotions on the day. These will complement a full programme of events including a Careers Fair and a mini-Olympics, where we are hoping we might spot the British Usain Bolt in our 100m to 2012 event talent-spotting local youngsters.
The Jamaica Society Manchester was established in 1963. It role includes planning and deliver events that promote achievement within Manchester’s black community.
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