Educator Dr Rae Davis, manufacturer Ray Hadeed, businesswoman Beverley Lopez, sports administrator Teddy McCook, and medical doctor Professor Owen Morgan are to be conferred with the Order of Jamaica, the nation’s fourth highest honour, on October 16, National Heroes Day.

The five will be among 113 Jamaicans who will be invested with national honours and awards at the annual ceremony normally held at King’s House, the official home of the head of state, the governor-general.

Davis is being recognised for his contribution to education; Hadeed, for pioneering service to manufacturing; Lopez, for private sector leadership; McCook, for service to sports, particularly athletics; and Morgan, for distinguished contribution to medicine and medical education in Jamaica and internationally, JIS News, the state news agency, said on Saturday.

A total of 31 Jamaicans will be conferred with the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander (CD). Among ^them are: Keith ‘Bob Andy’ Anderson, for sterling contribution to the development of Reggae music; Dr Kenrick Barrow, for outstanding services to medicine and medical education; Kenneth Benjamin, for contribution to business and entrepreneurship; Asley ‘Grub’ Cooper, OD, for his contribution to music; Bishop Charles Dufour, for sterling service in the fields of religion and social development, and Dr William Foster, for outstanding voluntary service to Jamaican children in the field of open-heart surgery.

Other recipients of the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander are: Newton James, Dr Pauline Knight, Lenbert Little-White, Dr Blossom O’Meally-Nelson, Justice Seymour Panton, Kent Pantry, Dahlia Repole, Dr Cezley Sampson, Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas, Rosemarie Vernon, Dr Barrington Wint, and former Jamaica Labour Party government minister and manufacturer Douglas Vaz.

The late Ferdinand Adolphus Buxton-Thompson will be awarded the CD posthumously for his sterling contribution to the development of education in Jamaica.

The Order of Distinction in the rank of Officer (OD) has been awarded to 43 Jamaicans. They include: Wesley Barrett, athletics coach Steven Francis, musician and singer Boris Gardiner, veteran record producer Lloyd ‘King Jammy’ James, sportsmen Neville Myton and Renford Pinnock, and singer Glenroy ‘Ernie’ Smith.

Three persons have been awarded the Badge of Honour for Gallantry. They are: Harold Bailey; Marcia Sutherland-Bailey; and Daliah Dumont.