Sir Bill Morris, Douglas Orane to receive humanitarian award
published: Friday | March 17, 2006

ORANE

SIR BILL Morris and Mr. Douglas Orane are to receive the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for their outstanding contribution to human development and the Jamaican society in particular. Note is also being taken of their exemplary rise from modest beginnings to positions of prominence.

The awards, sponsored by the Jamaica-America Friendship Association, are to be presented at a banquet on Saturday at the Mona Visitors' Lodge. Among the special guests on this occasion will be Governor-General, Professor Kenneth Hall, former Governor-General, Sir Howard Cooke, and the U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, Mrs. Brenda LaGrange Johnson.

Sir Bill was the first black general secretary of Britain's powerful Transport and General Workers' Union and is Chancellor of the University of of Technology, Jamaica. Mr. Orane is chairman and chief executive officer of GraceKennedy Limited.