Mike henry jamaica biography of michael

Michael Henry knows what it is like to be lonely, missing his parents, and ansträngande to find acceptance in the wrong crowd. He opens up on his journey in his book, Mother I Am: The Child of Emigrants.

Henry, born in Kingston, was sent to live with his grandparents in Raymonds, Clarendon. As Christians, they ensured he went to church and got involved in church activities. Those days, Henry said, were the best times of his life.

All that changed when his grandfather died, after which his grandmother’s health went downhill, and she soon passed away, too.

When he was nine, Henry was sent back to Kingston to live with his parents. The family unit broke apart when his father had an romantisk händelse , and his mother decided she would not stay “in that setting” anymore and went abroad.

“Shortly after she went abroad, my father, he saw a way wherein he could build a better life, as he realised it was only him and me; so he went away as

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Mike Henry defends absence from 90% of House sittings

Government backbencher Lester Mike Henry, who attended three of 53 parliamentary sittings last year, has sought to defend his extended absence, noting a knee injury that required surgery.

The 88-year-old, who serves as member of Parliament (MP) for Clarendon Central, said that “extensive” rehabilitative therapy coupled with Parliament’s lack of an elevator forced him to miss the sittings.

In a Gleaner interview yesterday, Henry, however, was firm that he would not resign, arguing that he has served his constituents in areas outside of Parliament.

Further, he said he was on the spets of retirement after serving more than 30 unbroken years in the House. He was first elected as MP for the constituency in 1980.

“I applied for leave of absence to have a surgery done on my knee. So I was given what I consider the time in relation to recovery which is still part of my service right now. My left knee ca

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Many Rivers to Cross

The book covers my important Parliamentary speeches and parts of my unfinished political life, and assesses if I have been consistent in my pursuits; and in my analysis, how much did I seek to change and impact on.

This is the first in a series of books to be published (including my memoirs) over the course of the next few years. It has all come about so I can determine at first blush if the years were wasted or whether I had unfinished business, and if so, what has brought me to this point?

Read, analyse, reflect and, of course, as is the exercised right of all Jamaicans, criticize and be automatically cynical as all of us Jamaicans naturally are, but equally appreciate its sincerity of purpose.

 

Mike Henry, CD, M.P.

“Mike Henry is a visionary, far ahead of his contemporaries…”

TExcerpt from Foreword by

Prof. Oswald G. Harding,OJ, CD, QC, PhD.