(Jamaica Observer) NEW YORK, USA — A permanent memorial to honour Jamaican nationals who died in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 will be erected at the British Garden at Hanover Square, in lower Manhattan.
Jamaica has joined other Commonwealth nations — Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom — in making the British Garden a permanent memorial for its 9/11 victims.
On Memorial Day, November 11, 2011 — 10 years and one month after the terrible attacks — Jamaica’s Consul General to New York Dr Geneive Brown Metzger laid a wreath in honour of the Jamaicans who died when the two towers collapsed. The consul general participated with the full endorsement of the Jamaican Government.
“The Jamaicans who perished in the attacks on the World Trade Center will never be forgotten by their families and homeland. This memorial, in the heart of New York City, is a fitting tribute and I am honoured to be able to lead the official recognition of their sacrifice to their adopted homeland,” said Dr Brown Metzger
