Dr Basil K. Bryan served on the facility of Howard University between 1981 and 1991. Basil then became deputy ambassador at the Jamaican embassy in Washington Dc between 1991 to1998; after that, Bryan was consul general to New York from April 1998 to Sept 2007. He has received numbers awards, proclamations and citations from NY and many other states. In 2002, he was a recipient of the order of distinction (OD) from Jamaica. As an author of numerous publications, his current book is “The Jamaican: Children of God in the Promised Land.â€