PNP backs Bob Marley, Miss Lou for national hero not icon

People’s National Party (PNP) spokesperson for culture and creative industries, Dr Deborah Hickling Gordon, has described the addition of a second-tier national honour for two of Jamaica’s most celebrated cultural figures — Robert Nesta Marley, known globally as Bob Marley, and Louise Bennett Coverley, affectionately called Miss Lou — as another retrograde proposal concerning cultural observances, particularly in how they impact the majority of Jamaicans of African descent. “This is the...