KINGSTON, Jamaica — Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding will be the guest presenter at this year’s annual CIN Lecture Series, at the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture, on Tuesday October 22.

The ‘CIN Lecture Series’ is regarded as one of the premier Caribbean calendar events in New York, and attracts a large cross-section of diplomats, media, business and religious leaders, college professors and other members of the Caribbean community.

Each lecture has attracted capacity audiences of at least 600 people to the Schomburg Centre, and the presentation is subsequently aired on CIN TV, which reaches out to over two million Caribbean-Americans in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

According to a release from CIN, Golding was chosen to deliver this year’s lecture on the basis of his over 40 years of contribution to Jamaica’s political, social and economic, starting at the early age of 24.

A former chairman and general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party, Golding founded the National Democratic Movement (NDM) in 1997, but returned to the JLP in 2002 and was elected leader in 2005 following the departure of former Prime Minister Edward Seaga. He was eventually elected in the 2007 general election as Jamaica’s eighth Prime Minister, and served for four years before his resignation and retirement in October, 2011.

Over the past seven years, presenters at the lecture have been: Robert Hill, who spoke on ‘Marcus Garvey’; Rex Nettleford, whose subject was ‘The Caribbean Diversity: A Defining Point in the History of the Americas’; Edward Seaga, who spoke on ‘The Folk Roots of Jamaican Cultural Identity’; P J Patterson whose subject was ‘The Importance of the Caribbean Diaspora to Economic Development’; Lowell Hawthorne whose topic was ‘The Importance of Entrepreneurship and its Contribution to Wealth Creation’; Ronnie Thwaites, who spoke on ‘The agony of change and the prospect of a new beginning in Jamaica’; Greg Christie who spoke on ‘The Fight to Secure Integrity, Transparency and Accountability in the Award of Government Contracts in Jamaica’; and in 2012, Douglas Orane who spoke on ‘The Key to Prosperity in Jamaica.’

Jamaican-owned CIN is seen on channel 73, reaching the five boroughs of New York, and on NYCTV connecting to 18.9 million people in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.