Leaders across the Caribbean Community (Caricom) were on Sunday observing Emancipation Day by reminding people to focus on the significance of what took place 183 years ago on August 1, 1838. In his message to Jamaicans, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that Jamaicans “must never overlook or underplay the role that our forebears played in resisting and rebelling against slavery.” “Today, we celebrate, as our forebears did, the day of full freedom. We give thanks for their sacrifice and we reflect on the dehumanizing system that sought to treat another human being as property, to deny them of any rights,