ST ANN’S BAY, St Ann — Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has challenged the rebranded Marcus Garvey ... to the national hero after whom it was named, Marcus Garvey. Thwaites was addressing ...

After serving three years of his sentence, Garvey was released and deported to Jamaica. Garvey’s movement waned in the USA after his deportation, but his influence remains, historians say.

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, writer and thinker whose philosophy supported the Back to Africa movement of the 1920s, which advocated that members of the African diaspora return to ...