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may he rest in peace
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Re: BREAKING NEWS HUGH LAWSON SHEARER IS DEAD
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Re: BREAKING NEWS HUGH LAWSON SHEARER IS DEAD
another chapter closed.When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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Re: BREAKING NEWS HUGH LAWSON SHEARER IS DEAD
Is Shearer de one who did lose pawt a im teely pot???
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Re: BREAKING NEWS HUGH LAWSON SHEARER IS DEAD
Originally posted by SueSumba:
[qb] background please? [/qb]
Born :05/18/1923 Country :Jamaica
Best known for/as: Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
Biography: The Right Honorable Hugh Lawson Shearer was born on May 18, 1923 at Martha Brae, Trelawny, close to the sugar and banana areas. He attended St. Simon’s College as a Parish Scholarship winner. He joined the BITU’s staff in April 1941 attached to the union’s weekly paper “Jamaica Worker”. His first promotion came in 1943, when Sir Alexander Bustamante newly released from Detention Camp, took over editorship of the paper and took Hugh Shearer under his wings from then. As Bustamante became more involved with the Jamaica Labour Party, Mr. Shearer went on to further promotion within the union and acquired a Government Trade Union scholarship in 1947-48.
He first moved into the political field when he was elected a Councillor of the KSAC in 1947. He was appointed Island Supervisor of the BITU and elected Vice-President of the union, at around the same time. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a member for Western Kingston 1955-59, and on being defeated was appointed to the Legislative Council. He was a member of the Senate (and its leader) from 1962 to 1967, at the same time filling the role of Jamaica’s chief spokesman on foreign affairs as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United Nations. In 1967 he was elected M.P. for Southern Clarendon and appointed Prime Minister on the death of Sir Donald Sangster in 1967.
In the political field he was at the same time prominent as a JLP representative and shared political activity with the union programme and after Bustamante, was recognized as the JLP spokesman for the working class sector of the community. Due to Bustamante’s increasing involvement with Government, Mr. Shearer took over complete charge of the BITU, and this made him a force to be reckoned with in JLP councils. He held a seat in the JLP Executive as the leading representative of the BITU and that was a position of strength.
As a Prime Minister (1967-1972) he presided over Jamaica ’s most productive years. During this period three new alumina refineries and three large convention hotels were constructed or started. These formed the base of today’s mining and tourism industries, now the countries two largest foreign exchange earners.
Also Mr. Shearer is credited with changing the pace of education in Jamaica with his programme to double secondary school enrollment. Fifty new secondary schools were built as a result. On the international scene, Mr. Shearer in 1963 initiated the movement in the United Nations for declaring 1968 as “The International Year of Human Rights” celebrated worldwide. Mr. Shearer also piloted the move to have Jamaica selected as headquarters for The Law of the Sea Authority.When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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thanks RichD, i didn't think it could possibly be *himself* as i thought he had passed already.Comment
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Re: BREAKING NEWS HUGH LAWSON SHEARER IS DEAD
also known as the PM who could neva pronounce the words, 'funeral' and 'film'
also known as the PM who worked the hardest to change the divorce law as him Catholic wife would neva divorce him ...still shocked dat afta allllll dem years togedda, him an di former Miss Jamaica, neva married when dem could
also known as the PM who banned soooooooo many worthy books cause dem espoused black power, nationalism etc
also known as the PM who declared Walter Rodney persona non grata
but still, one of our own and wi did still luv him, failings and all
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seaga retired, now hugh is dead?Originally posted by chubble:
[qb] may he rest in peace [/qb]
well atleast he lived to see seaga retire...Comment
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well him was di first black PM and not PJ...Originally posted by evanovitch:
[qb] also known as the PM who could neva pronounce the words, 'funeral' and 'film'
also known as the PM who worked the hardest to change the divorce law as him Catholic wife would neva divorce him ...still shocked dat afta allllll dem years togedda, him an di former Miss Jamaica, neva married when dem could
also known as the PM who banned soooooooo many worthy books cause dem espoused black power, nationalism etc
also known as the PM who declared Walter Rodney persona non grata
but still, one of our own and wi did still luv him, failings and all [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [/qb]
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so Busta and Sangster neva count [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]Originally posted by Trelli:
[qb]well him was di first black PM and not PJ... [/qb]Originally posted by evanovitch:
[qb] also known as the PM who could neva pronounce the words, 'funeral' and 'film'
also known as the PM who worked the hardest to change the divorce law as him Catholic wife would neva divorce him ...still shocked dat afta allllll dem years togedda, him an di former Miss Jamaica, neva married when dem could
also known as the PM who banned soooooooo many worthy books cause dem espoused black power, nationalism etc
also known as the PM who declared Walter Rodney persona non grata
but still, one of our own and wi did still luv him, failings and all [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [/qb]
well Busta did tell so much lie bout him heritage and him did really pale, but Sangster come from down a ST BESS and him was a black man ... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]Comment
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well busta was a premeir... nuh true?Originally posted by evanovitch:
[qb]so Busta and Sangster neva count [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]Originally posted by Trelli:
[qb]well him was di first black PM and not PJ... [/qb]Originally posted by evanovitch:
[qb] also known as the PM who could neva pronounce the words, 'funeral' and 'film'
also known as the PM who worked the hardest to change the divorce law as him Catholic wife would neva divorce him ...still shocked dat afta allllll dem years togedda, him an di former Miss Jamaica, neva married when dem could
also known as the PM who banned soooooooo many worthy books cause dem espoused black power, nationalism etc
also known as the PM who declared Walter Rodney persona non grata
but still, one of our own and wi did still luv him, failings and all [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [/qb]
well Busta did tell so much lie bout him heritage and him did really pale, but Sangster come from down a ST BESS and him was a black man ... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/qb]
plus him was white... memba say him was Norman Manley(Micheal's father) first cousin enoh.
Micheal Manley yeye dem did blue, so me noh beleive busta was really black...
me figget Sangster... yeah, him was a black PM tooComment
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Trelli my grandfather had blue eyes so he wouldne be black in your books then [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]Comment
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me naw say no-- some black ppl(well mixed) have blue eyes, but Manley was white.Originally posted by Sweetssop:
[qb] Trelli my grandfather had blue eyes so he wouldne be black in your books then [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [/qb]Comment
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btw, dont get me wrong, me noh have a prob wid a PM race. it's just that me want fi point out to ppl who love fi say PJ was the first black PM(remember the "black man time mow" slogan), that Sangster and Shearer were black as well...Comment
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Pharoah also banned Justin Hinds and the Dominoes` song or songs...Oh Jeezebel...Long shall the wicked reign over my people...
Donald Sangster was a brown or red man. If yu call dat man Black, him woulda turn in him grave right now.Comment
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