Governor General Awards Recipient 1999: Vandyke Mckenzie
Vankyke McKenzie was born in 1944 in Jericho, Hanover. He attended Jericho Elementary School and the North Western Academy in Montego Bay, but his academic career was brought abruptly to a stand-still when he had to take on the responsibilities as...

Governor General Awards Recipient 1996: Mr. Hubert Franklin Smith
Hubert Smith was born at Wait-A-Bit, Trelawny, in 1930. His mother was a common labourer working with her father and later also a peasant farmer with her own piece of ground who won some recognition at Denbigh, but Hubert grew up with his aunt who...

Governor General Awards Recipient 1997: Mr. Glen Bromfield
BLESSED WITH a sharp business acumen, the managing director of the Medallion Hall Hotel and Bloomfield Jamaica Ltd., Mr. Glen Bromfield, considers himself to be a self-made man and is proud of it.   He enjoys reminiscing about the...

Governor General Awards Recipient 1999: Huton Oliver Lammie
Huton Oliver Lammie was born in June of 1943 in the district of Bourbon, Portland. He is the last child in a family of six children. He attended elementary schools in Maidstone and Coopers' Hill. In the mornings before school, it was mandatory...

Governor General Awards Recipient 1997: Rev. Percival Lynch
Percival Lynch was born in Marlie Hill, St. Catherine in 1957 the first of his mother's two children. He grew up without a father and was cared for by adopted grandparents, supported solely by his mother who did higglering, travelling 13“ miles by...