Damani Thomas is a Jamaican environmental scientist, inventor, and clean-technology entrepreneur who serves as Founder and CEO of the Carbon Neutral Initiative. He was recognised as the 2024 CARICOM Sustainable Energy Youth Award recipient, reflecting his contribution to low-carbon innovation and su...

Diandra Rowe is a Jamaican agricultural entrepreneur and greenhouse farmer, best known as the Managing Director of Abbey Garden Farm. She has been recognised as Jamaica’s 2023 national champion greenhouse and female farmer at Denbigh, and was also named the Caribbean’s Young Farmer of the Year for 2...

Dr. Lucille Mathurin Mair is undoubtedly a Caribbean citizen of great intellectual stature and high international repute and of whom all the Caribbean is proud. For her outstanding service as a diplomat, scholar and women’s rights activist she was accorded the highly deserved honour of fifth recipie...

THE MOST HONOURABLE P. J. PATTERSON, ON, PC, OE, QC UPON BEING AWARDED THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 2 JULY 2009As I join the pantheon of previous recipients who have made their indelible stamp on the rich tapestry of the Caribbean in the fields of academia, learning, literature, law, ...

For his outstanding contribution to the Caribbean as a political leader and social reformer, the OCC was conferred on Jamaica's fourth Prime Minister, Michael Norman Manley, and son of Jamaica's national hero Norman Washington Manley, in 1994. As an agitator and champion of the cause of the w...

CITATION FOR THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 2008 The computer was a mere thought in 1933, the year Rex Nettleford was born in the parish of Trelawny on the edge of Jamaica's Cockpit Country. In those days, babies googled when they were fed and felt content – as, no doubt, did baby Nett...