On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, Jamaicans worldwide will join together to celebrate Jamaica Diaspora Day with a full day of virtual sessions. The event hosted by the Jamaica Diaspora Task-force Action Network (JDTAN) in association with Jamaicans dot com will highlight the extraordinary work and contributions of the Diaspora in collaboration with Jamaica. The Diaspora is estimated to be approximately 3 million worldwide, the largest populations being in the United States, the UK, and Canada respectively.

This year, 2020, is the 17th anniversary of the day a resolution was proposed during the first Jamaica Diaspora Conference in 2004. It was declared a year later by Jamaica’s late Governor-General,  Sir Howard Cooke, and is now celebrated annually. The date also falls within Caribbean American Heritage Month.

The full day of activities will be broadcasted live on  Facebook’s Jamaicans dot com platform, OneLoveJamaica, starting at 10 AM US ET through 10 PM US ET. Over ten sessions and forty speakers across the Diaspora and Jamaica are scheduled including Jamaica’s: Health Minister Christopher Tufton, Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade MP Lisa Hanna,  Brigadier General Roderick Williams from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Charles Clayton from Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) among others.  From the Diaspora, Judge Norman Hemmings,  Chief federal Administrative Law Judge, Dr. Trevor Nixon, President of the JahJah Foundation and Cassandra Campbell from the Facebook Elevate program and other Diaspora members spanning Education, Technology, Agriculture, the Legal Sector, Youth Leadership, Deaf and Other Abled, Health, Media and more. Sessions will also feature Diaspora organizations in Canada, Europe, Middle East, Australia, and the US including the Global Alumni networks. For more information and to register for free visit, diasporaday dot jdtan dot org.