Abduna Monomatapa
- Abduna Monomatapa
- Jun 12, 2019
- 4 min read
Updated: Jun 20, 2019

THE FACTS ABDUNA ATTENDS INAUGURAL ASSEMBLY OF CARIBBEAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND MOVES RESOLUTION WITH RONNIE THWAITES TO MAKE THE CHURCH LITURGY MORE SOCIALLY RESPONSIVE ABDUNA-- MEMBER COUNCIL OF PROGRESSIVE STUDENTS WITH UWI GUILD OF UNDER GRADUATES MEMBERS AND ACTIVISTS WAYNE LOPEZ ,MARK SIMPSON , DR PETER FIGUEROA, DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENCES PROFESSOR MARK FIGUEROA RUPERT LEWIS, ROBERT"SADDLE"BRYAN OF GRIZZLYS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
APPOINTED PREFECT AT PRIORY SCHOOL AND HEAD OF OXFORD HOUSE LEADS 1/3 OF SCHOOL POPULATION SPORTS COMPETITIONS .MEMBERS INCLUDED BILLY "MYSTIC"WILMOT OF THE MYSTIC REVEALERS AND LEAD ACTOR IN THE POPULAR ROYAL PALM ESTATE AND THE BLACKBURN'S TV SERIES,SEAN BOURKE GRANDSON OF PRIORY FOUNDER HENRY FOWLER AND SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELOR PATRICK BOURKE AND HIS SISTER TAMMY BOURKE
SCHOOLMATES : STEPHEN CAT COORE OF THIRD WORLD AND DR WYKEHAM MC NIEL..SHADOW MINSTER OF TOURISM AND PAC CHAIRMAN .ATTORNEY AT LAW :ARTHUR KITCHEN AND ACTOR PLAYWRIGHT STAFFORD ASHANITI HARRISON "KLASH,THE MIGHTY QUINN AND PROFESSOR DAVID ROWE DECEASED
ABDUNA WAS ELECTED VP OF SIXTH FROM ASSOCIATION WHILE IN 5TH FORM
ABDUNA CO ORDINATED SUNDAY TV TALK SHOW ON JBC NOW TVJ "SAY IT LOUD" PRODUCED BY ALPHONSO WALKER CONVENER ROBERT PICKERSGILL PNP CHAIRMAN FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR
GUESTS INCLUDE, RHODES SCHOLARS ROBERT HEW (OXFORD, HARVARD LAW )JOHN BACQUIE HARVARD AND OXFORD , CHRISTOPHER ZACCA MIT AND PAST PSOJ AIR JAMAICA .JAMAICA OBSERVER AND SANDALS CHAIRMAN,TRACY MARSH-RUSSELL AND CBC PIONEER JOURNALIST ,AUTHOR AND MEDIA CONSULTANT INGRID WALTER.
DOES RADIO SHOWS WITH ANNA HEARNE AND CYNTHIA WILMOT AND TESS THOMAS EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE
EXECUTIVE MEMBER JAMAICA UNION OF STUDENTS
JAMAICA YOUTH COUNCIL EXECUTIVE WITH LOCKSLEY COMRIE AND DENNIS SMITH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE WITH REVD ERNIE GORDON
ATTENDED OFFICIAL VISIT OF JULIUS NYERERE TO JAMAICA, THE BAUXITE LEVY ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE MANLEY GOVT AT JAMAICA HOUSE,AND WAS THE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE AT KINGS HOUSE OF GOVERNOR GENERAL FLORIZEL GLASSPOLE'S JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON YOUTH WITH DR LUCILLE MAIR-MATHURIN,MR MUIRHEAD,HEAD OF THE BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION MRS JUSTICE COLLYMORE WOODSTOCK OF THE GIRL GUIDES COLONEL PURSER OF THE SALVATION ARMY.
ABDUNAPRODUCTIONS FORMED. FIRST CONTRACT WITH JAMAL FOUNDATION 10,000 TEE SHIRTS, SUPPLIED AMMARS NOW RUN BY CLASSMATE AND PSOJ EX PRESIDENT MICHAEL AMMAR AND HIS MOTHER, MRS DAWN AZAN'S TINY TOWN..ALSO CONTRACTED TO SUPPLY 1000 DOZEN DECALS FOR CHILDRENDS CLOTHING ATTENDED DREW UNIVERSITY MADISON NJ , WERE AUNT DR JOYCE BAILEY (PRINCETON SEMINARY) LECTURED AND REVD DR ALBERT AYMER WAS READING FOR HIS DOCTORATE ELECTED PRESIDENT DREW UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION,ACCREDITED TO THE UNITED NATIONS HQ YOUTH CAUCUS FROM JAMAICA ATTENDED THE UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL GOLD MEDAL AWARD TO MICHAEL MANLEY FOR HIS WORK AGAINST APARTHEID WITH HIS FATHER REVD CYRIL EVANS BAILEY BD STM (COLUMBIA 1968) WHO WAS ONE OF MICHAEL MANLEY'S SPIRITUAL ADVISERS COMPLETES DEGREE IN ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT DREW UNIVERSITY NJ, ACCEPTED FOR MASTERS OF SACRED THEOLOGY (STM) BY DR ARLO DUBA OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ADMISSIONS. SETS UP SATURN ENTERPRISES IN JAMAICA TO PIONEER COLOUR TV IMPORTATION INTO JAMAICA AND WITH LUCIEN CHENS VIDEO WORLD AND THE LATE DAVID DARBY HELPED PIONEERED THEN NEW SATELLITE TV COLOR TV AGE FOR JAMAICA. NEGOTIATED WITH ABE DHABDOUB LAWYER CONTRACTS TO SUPPLY THOUSANDS OF TVS TO GOVERNMENT OWNED HOTELS . WITH TEE COM LTD PILOT SATELLITE CABLE TV FOR PEGASUS HOTEL RUN BY ROD HEAVEN THEN FRIEND AND PROSPECTIVE PARTNER JOHN MC VIE OF FLEETWOOD MAC ABDUNA BECOMES INVOLVED IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS MANAGES CAPITOL RECORDS/EMI AND INDEPENDENT ARTISTS TO THE JUNO AWARD LEVEL AND HELPS RAISE FUND FOR MANDELA FIRST FREE AND FAIR ELECTION IN SOUTH AFRICA .AS PART OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MUSIC FRATERNITY HE HELPED PROMOTE REGGAE SUNSPLASH AND ASSIST IN CHARITABLE WORK FOR RAISING HIV AIDS AWARENESS. FEB 1993 SISTER PASSES AND AUNT MAYSI BAILEY,ATTORNEY,NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST COUNSEL AND FORMER DEPUTY REGISTRAR OT TITLES A WEEK LATER. ABDUNA RETURNS TO JAMAICA AND BECOMES PART OF THE NEW JAPANESE USED CAR IMPORT BOOM. INTRODUCED TO THE INDUSTRY BY HIS UNCLE, THEN JAMAICA CIVIL SERVICE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT EDDIE BAILEY WHOSE MEMBERS AND OTHER , DEALERS LIKE DARYL VAZ'S "DARLYS AUTO" AND HEAVENS " MIJAM LTD" HAD BEEN COURTED BY JOHN HONDA OF TOKYO JAPAN TO GET JAPANESE CARS. ABDUNA GOT INTO THE FRAY AND WITHIN A SORT TIME HAD ORDERS FOR ALMOST 100 VEHICLES . HE WAS INVITED TO NAGOYA JAPAN BY KEVIN MURAKAMI OF THE NAGOYA USED CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION..AND HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THEN SENATOR ANTHONY JOHNSON AND AGRICULTURALIST AND LONG TIME FAMILY AND PROVIDENCE METHODIST CHURCH MEMBER ABOUT ALSO EXPORTING COFFEE TO JAPAN. THAT MEETING AT THE PEGASUS HOTEL PUB, IN NEW KINGSTON WAS ALSO ATTENDED BY NOW TOURISM MINISTER EDMUND BARTLETT AND ROD HEAVEN . AFTER AN EXHILARATING TRIP TO TOKYO AND NAGOYA..MEETING WITH MURAKAMI AND HONDA,,,ABDUNA BEGAN THE PROCESS OF SUPPLYING NEARLY A 1000 CAR TO HIS WAITING CUSTOMERS. THE FIRST TRANCHE OF 20 IMMEDIATE CARS WAS TO LEAVE IN TWO SHIPMENTS. PRIOR TO LEAVING JAMAICA ABDUNA HAD MET WITH DAWN HENDRICKS OF CITIBANK WITH A VIEW TO HAVING HER BANK, WHICH WAS WELL KNOWN IN JAPAN, TO ACT AS A MEDIATOR, SIGHT DRAFT OR COLLECTION GO BETWEEN FOR THE JAPANESE SUPPLIERS AND ABDUNAS JAMAICAN CUSTOMERS. ESSENTIALLY MONEYS WERE PAID IN ADVANCE TO MR MIZUE OF AUTO GALAXY LTD..THE CARS WERE SHIPPED TO JAMAICA BUT FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON WERE NOT AUTHORIZED TO BE RELEASED TO INDIVIDUAL BUYERS AS WAS EXPECTED BY CITY BANK. THE INSTRUCTIONS WERE NOT INITIALLY GIVEN FOR OVER 6 WEEKS OR MORE UNTIL ABDUNA ASKED ANOTHER JAPANESE ASSOCIATE WITH MIZUE.WHEN THE RELEASE TOOK PLACE FINALLY IT WAS TO ANOTHER CAR DEALER ,POSSIBLY DAVID PANTON ON UNIMOTORS AND NOW KEY MOTORS. THAT ACTION CAUSED TREMENDOUS PROBLEMS AS NEITHER THE CAR NOR DEPOSITS WERE RELEASED TO ABDUNA. THE RESULTING ENTANGLEMENTS COST ABDUNA SEVERAL YEARS OF HEART ACHE,,BECAUSE WHEN HE RETURNED TO JAMAICA AT HIS GRANDFATHERS FUNERAL AND ATTEMPTED TO RESOLVE THE MATTER AT GROUND LEVEL HE SUFFERED SOME SERIOUS PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL SETBACKS WHICH CONTINUE EVEN TO THIS DAY . ABDUNA DESPITE THESE SET BACK S WITH THE GRACE OF GOD HAS ENDEAVORED TO RECOUP THE LOSSES FROM THE ACTION OF MR KAZUMASA MIZUE OF AUTO GALAXY LTD http://www.autogalaxy.jp/intro_e.html NEW BUSINESS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN OTHER MARKETS IN THE ENSUING YEARS AND THAT MUST BE PROTECTED AND AN ATTEMPT TO RECOUP COMPENSATION FROM AUTO GALAXY FOR FAILURE TO DELIVER NEITHER GOODS NOR REFUNDS MUST BE ACTED ON NOW , TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. "THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG BUT ITS BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE" MORE ANON
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