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Thousands of students from across the island are expected to converge on the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium on Friday February 22, 2013 for the first National Jamaica Day Celebration.
Jamaica Day will be a celebration of the country’s culture, and will feature a parade, a reading of the Jamaica Day Proclamation, drumming, performances by gospel choirs, and other activities.
Speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank session, Director of Culture in Education Programme, in the Ministry of Education Amina Blackwood-Meeks said: "a gala will be mounted (in the stadium) that will centre the students in the experiences that some of us had in 1962".
She added: "We want to build a generation that will be centered in memories; that will drive their understanding of their citizenship."
Blackwood-Meeks told JIS News that the six education regions will be asked to mount displays, depicting their interpretation of the Jamaica Day theme: 'Celebrating Jamaica: I’m On It.'
This interpretation, she explained, will focus on their uniqueness. For example, “the region in which Trelawny falls which has yam and Usain Bolt, they would have a different interpretation from the region in which St Thomas Technical High School falls, being the place in Jamaica where the sun
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