KINGSTON, Jamaica - Christopher Issa, chief executive officer of the S-Hotel chain in Jamaica, is among the long list of individuals lauding the United States’ posthumous pardon of Jamaican National Hero,

America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.”

In one of his final moves as President, Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Garvey’s supporters have long argued that the conviction effort to silence the social justice champion as he fought for racial equality for Black Americans,