ʻO Jamaica Huakaʻi Kuhina, Hon. Ua hāʻawi ʻia ʻo Edmund Bartlett, i nehinei i ka makana hanohano Gusi Peace mai ka Gusi Foundation o Manila, Pilipino.
“Hoʻohanohano nui ʻia au e noʻonoʻo ʻia e ka Gusi Foundation hanohano i kēia wā koʻikoʻi o ka mōʻaukala honua. ʻOiaʻiʻo, ʻo kā mākou hana e pili ana i ka hoʻokipa a me ka resilience ākea i hana i kahi māka. Manaʻo wau ʻo Jamaica, a ʻo mākou a pau i komo i ka ʻoihana hoʻokipa huakaʻi i ka mokupuni, hiki iā mākou ke haʻaheo ke manaʻo ʻia nei a ʻike ʻia kā mākou hana ma ʻō aku o kā mākou kahakai, "wahi a Kuhina Bartlett.
ʻO ka Gusi Foundation kahi hui manawaleʻa, nona ka pahuhopu nui "e hāʻawi i ka hōʻoia kūpono, ma o ka hāʻawi ʻana i nā makana o ke poʻokela a me ka hiwahiwa, i nā kānaka a i ʻole nā hui i ka honua āpau i ʻike iā lākou iho he mau hiʻohiʻona hiʻohiʻona o ke kaiāulu."
Kahi mea kikoʻī, ua hoʻomaopopo ka poʻe hoʻonohonoho e pono i kēia mau kānaka a i ʻole nā hui e hana i nā makana kūpono i ka maluhia a me nā pono kanaka, i nā ʻike ʻepekema, nā politika, ka ʻimi naʻau, nā hana noʻeau, nā palapala, nā lāʻau lapaʻau a i ʻole physiology, journalism, humanities, physics, chemistry, religion, business and philanthropy, economics a me internationalism.
Ua kapa ʻia ka makana ma hope o ka hala ʻana o Kāpena Gemeniano Javier Gusi, kahi koa o ke Kaua Honua II i hakakā kūʻē aku i ka hoʻokaumaha Kepani a lilo i mea kākoʻo nui i nā kuleana kanaka.
Ua manaʻo ʻia e hoʻokokoke i ka hanohano a me ka mahalo i hāʻawi ʻia i ka Nobel Peace Prize o Nolewai, a me ka Pulitzer o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa o ʻAmelika.
"Ua ʻoluʻolu wau e ʻae i kēia makana, ʻoiai maoli ia, a ke lana nei koʻu manaʻo e hiki iaʻu ke hele aʻe e loaʻa ma ke kino i Manilla. Ma o mākou āpau, he manawa hoʻohaʻahaʻa loa kēia akā he mea nui ia i loko o koʻu ola a no mākou āpau i ka mākaʻikaʻi, "wahi a ke Kuhina.
Ua hui pū ʻo Bartlett i nā laureates ma mua e like me ka mea hoʻolaha veteran Jamaican a me diplomat ʻo Arnold Foote Jr, i loaʻa ka hanohano ma 2010; ʻO Kauka ʻIsaia Salas Hererra o Costa Rica i loaʻa ka makana ma 2016; ʻO ka mea kālepa ʻo Jamaican, ʻo Lascelles Chin, i hāʻawi ʻia i ka 2017 a me ka ʻOihana aloha kanaka Jamaica, Makua Richard Ryan Ho Lung, i hāʻawi ʻia ma 2011.
ʻO nā nūhou hou aʻe e pili ana iā Jamaica
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- I think Jamaica, and certainly all of us who have been in the tourism management business in the island, can feel justly proud that we are being considered and our work is recognized well beyond our shores,” said Minister Bartlett.
- The Gusi Foundation is a charitable organization, whose main objective is “to give proper recognition, through the conferment of awards of excellence and distinction, to individuals or groups worldwide who have distinguished themselves as brilliant exemplars of society.
- On behalf of all of us, this is indeed a very humbling but significant moment in my life and certainly for all of us in tourism,” said the Minister.
