fiyah pon ja national heoes well two aff dem

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busta ann cuzzins narman set upp ja politrixx system wear da leaderships can be inherrited ann dem foster politrixxs infightinn fe divide ann rule jamaicans.

wat oonnoo tink bout dat ann cum tell mii y yuh tink dem deserved fe be celebrated as ja national heroes?

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mi agree wid yuh breddah

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norman mighta can stay (my jury still out) but busta get di fire

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busta ann cuzzins narman set upp ja politrixx system wear da leaderships can be inherrited

Name me one of their descendants who is still involved in politics in Jamaica.

ann dem foster politrixxs infightinn fe divide ann rule jamaicans.

I think your facts are wrong. It is Seaga who started that.

wat oonnoo tink bout dat ann cum tell mii y yuh tink dem deserved fe be celebrated as ja national heroes?

Yes they do deserve to be celebrated but I still have it against Busta re: his elitist comment when they were bringing scholarships for children based on ability. What a flippin snob.

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Name me one of their descendants who is still involved in politics in Jamaica.



I think your facts are wrong. It is Seaga who started that.


Yes they do deserve to be celebrated but I still have it against Busta re: his elitist comment when they were bringing scholarships for children based on ability. What a flippin snob.

busta apprenticed undar pj grandfaddar. mii wandar iff dat wen busta wass inn imm alejandro stage

mii awlway wandar y busta took a small recard producer name seaga ann made imm wan youngest politrixxstah inn jamaica histaree. mii wander iff dat y seaga married imm wifee dat lite skin miss jamaica? sangster latt aff rumor bout imm butt mii nah go deer

plus tropi shearer wass natt da name aff busta grandmaddar? shearer was a cousin aff narman ann busta. tink sum aff dem still involve inn politrixx

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Yes they do deserve to be celebrated but I still have it against Busta re: his elitist comment when they were bringing scholarships for children based on ability. What a flippin snob.

wen dem chatt nunsense bout based on abilitee mii juss laff cah a latt aff jamaicans yuths cood natt afford fe pay fe misedukkaysham.

da ting mii luv bout merikka iss dat dem studee dem leaders so dem know da good ann da bad bout dem. awl mii seyinn iss dat celebratinn ann hero worshippinn tings widdout xxamininn da parsan legacee iss bout idol worshipinn ann da bible bunn fiyah pon idolotary

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mi agree wid yuh breddah

seeth deh

dem a chatt bout national heroes days widdout xxamininn busta misleadership

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Jamaica's first and only Premier: July 1959 – July 1962
Named a National Hero in 1969.

Legacy

Shares with cousin Alexander Bustamante, the honour of being one of the two ‘Founding Fathers’ of Jamaica’s Independence, attained peacefully on August 6, 1962.

Personality
Physically attractive with athletic build, dignified bearing, sharp features and piercing eyes. Acknowledged as profound thinker, articulate spokesman, brilliant advocate, and skilful negotiator. Widely acknowledged for impeccable integrity and statesmanlike conduct, he has been described as a man of many parts and many accomplishments.

Education
He studied at Jamaica College, and overseas at Jesus College, Oxford, England. A Rhodes Scholar, he distinguished himself at Oxford and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1921. There, he gained the Certificate of Honour in the Bar Finals and copped the Lee Prizeman Award.

Profession
Admitted to the Jamaican Bar in 1922.

Military Service
Enlisted in the British Army in 1914 and served in an Artillery Regiment, gaining a Military Medal.

Party Leader
Co-founder with O. T. Fairclough the People’s National Party (1938) and President throughout his political career, until his retirement from politics, due to illness, July 4, 1969

Prowess
He was an outstanding schoolboy athlete, excellent horseman, and military marksman

Born
July 4, 1893, in Manchester, Jamaica

Parents
Thomas Albert Samuel Manley, and wife Margaret

Married
Edna nee Swithenbank, 1921 (d. Feb. 10, 1987)

Children
Douglas and Michael

Died
September 2, 1969

Age at Death
76-years old

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Jamaica's first Prime Minister: Aug. 6, 1962 – Feb. 27, 1967
Named a National Hero in 1969.

Legacy

Shares with cousin Norman Washington Manley, the honour of being one of the two ‘Founding Fathers’ of Jamaica’s Independence, attained peacefully, August 6, 1962

Personality
Physically impressive, standing approximately 6’5’ with gangling gait. A strong, wiry body and shock of grey hair made him a sort of living legend to the masses whose cause he championed against the colonial powers.

Known for his terse and telling phrases that cut to the quick of things, and for remarkable stamina that made him work tirelessly all over the island, particularly at the waterfront and at the sugar estates, where there were great concentrations of people. He tended to have a dictatorial style, marked nevertheless with sparkling magnanimity.

Education
Elementary schools, and by private tuition

Founder
The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (1938) and the Jamaica Labour Party (1943).

Work Experience
Store Clerk, Bee Keeper, Dairy Farmer, Junior Estate Overseer, Tramcar Inspector, Wall Street Speculator, Money Lender, Trade Unionist.

Born
February 24,1884, Blenheim, Hanover, Jamaica

Parents
Robert Constantine Clarke, and wife Mary nee Wilson

Married
Gladys Longbridge, September 7,1962

Children
None

Died
August 6, 1977

Age at Death
93 years old

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Jamaica's second Prime Minister: Feb. 22, 1967 – April 11, 1967
Legacy

Great social servant and good steward of financial resources. He was a particularly loyal supporter of Sir Alexander and faithful Deputy Leader in the Jamaica Labour Party, from 1949 to 1967. Became involved in politics when 21 years old and served with dedication until sudden illness and death, thirty years later.

Personality
Serious, hardworking and every bit a gentleman; much loved, much admired, and widely respected.

Education
He attended Munro College, 1921-1929, where he excelled in academics and participated in cricket, athletics, boxing, and gymnastics.

Profession
Immediately after leaving school he entered into legal Apprenticeship to be a Solicitor. He was admitted to practice in Jamaica in 1937

Service
He was a member of numerous boards and committees representing the interests of farmers, boy scouts, educators and sportsmen. He also attended several international conferences on behalf of the Government – in New Zealand, England, Canada, and Barbados.

Work Experience
Solicitor and Pen Keeper.

Born
October 26, 1911, in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica

Parents
W. B. Sangster and wife Cassandra

Married
Bachelor

Children
None

Died
April 11, 1967

Age at Death
51-years old

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Jamaica's third Prime Minister: April 11, 1967 – March 2, 1972
The Most Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer, Jamaica’s third Prime Minister, was born in the village of Martha Brae just outside Falmouth, Trelawny on May 18, 1923. His parents were James Shearer a World War One ex-serviceman, and Esther Lindo, a dressmaker.

He attended the Falmouth Primary school and from there he won the parish scholarship to St. Simon’s College, a privately owned high school in Kingston. He graduated from St. Simon’s in 1940.

Mr. Shearer entered the workforce during a period of intense political and labour turmoil in Jamaica. Sir Alexander Bustamante, the undisputed head of the labour movement and founder of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), and Norman Manley, head of the first organised political party in Jamaica, the People’s National Party (PNP), were both engaged in the struggle to reshape and redefine the Jamaican society in the period from 1938 to 1944.


TRAINEE JOURNALIST

Mr. Shearer, who could claim distant kinship to both Bustamante and Manley, was interested in journalism. He was taken on as a trainee journalist on the weekly publication the “Jamaica Worker”, the newspaper of the BITU, understudying Mr. Lynden G. Newland, who was then the paper’s editor. When Mr. Newland became General Secretary of the Union, Mr. Shearer continued working on the paper and eventually became its editor.

While still editor of the paper, Mr. Shearer began to serve his apprenticeship as a trade unionist. He took part with Bustamante and other union officers in union organisation and in negotiations with employers in some of the most important labour disputes. Mr. Shearer got his first taste of party politics during the 1944 elections, when he campaigned for the “Chief”, as Bustamante was then popularly called, in the Western Kingston constituency. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won the election and Mr. Shearer continued his work in the BITU.

Three years later, in 1947, Mr. Shearer was appointed Assistant General Secretary of the Union, and in that same year contested and won the Central St. Andrew seat on the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation Council.

In 1948 Mr. Shearer attended a Colonial Development and Welfare Trade Union Scholarship course in Barbados.

In the 1949 elections, Mr. Shearer contested the Western Kingston seat but was defeated by the PNP’s Ken Hill.


KEY FIGURE

In trade union circles, Mr. Shearer was becoming increasingly recognised as a key figure, sitting next to Bustamante in all important negotiations. In 1953 he was appointed Island Supervisor of the BITU.

In the 1955 general elections he was elected to a seat in the House of Representatives even though the JLP lost the elections. He sat in the Opposition benches until he lost his seat in the 1959 elections.

In 1960 he was elected Vice-President of the BITU, second only to Sir Alexander Bustamante who was President General.

In the 1961 referendum campaign to decide whether Jamaica should remain in the West Indies Federation or seek independence alone, the BITU under Hugh Shearer swung its weight behind the JLP’s campaign for Jamaica to go it alone, and the JLP gained a decisive victory.

APPOINTED TO SENATE

The JLP won the succeeding general elections and Mr. Shearer was appointed to the Legislative Council. When this was replaced by the Senate he was made Leader of Government Business and a Minister without Portfolio. He was also appointed Deputy Chief of Mission for Jamaica at the United Nations General Assembly and figured in many crucial international issues.

In 1963, Mr. Shearer presented a proposal to the United Nations that 1968 be designation “Human Rights Year”. This proposal was accepted by the UN General Assembly.

Mr. Shearer was a member of the Jamaican delegation at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference in September 1966.

In the 1967 general elections, Mr. Shearer won the Clarendon seat which had been held by Sir Alexander Bustamante before his retirement from active politics.

In the new Government, Mr. Shearer was appointed Minister of External Affairs on February 27, 1967.

PRIME MINISTER

On the passing of Sir Donald Sangster, Mr. Shearer was chosen to be Prime Minister of Jamaica. He was sworn in on April 11, 1967.

On January 6, 1969 Mr. Shearer was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Member of the Privy Council of England.

During his tenure as Prime Minister, Jamaica attained its highest ever-gross domestic product (GDP) per capita – US$2,300 – based on rapid growth in agriculture, mining and tourism.

He also started a system of major highways, the first being the Kingston to Spanish Town Highway, and laid the plans for other by-pass routes, which would remove bottlenecks in all major towns.

Mr. Shearer had a special interest in education, and courtesy of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), he was able to make marked improvements to the existing system, under the New Deal Education Programme. The New Deal Programme was designed to provide a sound education for every child in Jamaica, and, for the first time, the prospect of a totally educated population became a real possibility.

In Foreign Affairs, he gained the concession for a managed market for Caribbean bananas through shrewd bargaining at the Commonwealth Conference in Zambia, when the future of that organization hung in the balance. The British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, later paid tribute to his statesmanship. The banana arrangements have been a lifeline for the Caribbean industry, despite fierce international opposition, (and were replaced in 2000 after a major international dispute).

RETURN TO TRADE UNION

After the 1972 general elections in which he retained his parliamentary seat, Mr. Shearer was Leader of the Opposition until 1974, when he decided to devote his energies full-time to the Trade Union Movement.

He became President of the BITU in 1977 and in the ensuing years built the Union into the largest in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Mr. Shearer also played a leading role in the discussions and negotiations leading up to the establishment in 1980 of the Joint Trade Union Research Institute, the first of its kind in the Caribbean.

On November 9, 1980 following the victory of the Jamaica Labour Party in the general elections, Mr. Shearer was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Shearer held this position until 1989 when the PNP won the general elections.

Mr. Shearer continued as Member of Parliament for the Southern Clarendon constituency until he lost the seat in the 1993 general elections. He then retired from active public life.

Two national honours were conferred on Mr. Shearer during his lifetime:

The Order of Jamaica on May 23, 1990
The Order of the Nation on October 21, 2002

Mr. Shearer was also awarded the Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by Howard University in 1968 and the University of the West Indies (UWI) in 1994.

Mr. Shearer passed away on July 05, 2004 and is survived by his wife Dr. Denise Eldemire Shearer; sons, Howard and Lance; and daughters, Hope, Hillary and Heather.

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Jamaica's fourth Prime Minister: March 2, 1972 – November 4, 1980, and February 13, 1989 – March 30, 1992

Legacy
He has impacted the nation with a greater sense of importance and urgency regarding national identity, and, internationally, he has impacted the ideas of capitalist and socialist leaders with his advocacy of Democratic Socialism

Personality
Tall, handsome, forceful and flamboyant, Michael Manley has been undoubtedly Jamaica’s most eloquent, visionary, controversial, and dynamic leader since independence.

Education
He studied at Jamaica College (1935-43) and overseas at the London School of Economics (1945-49). There, he came under the influence of Harold Laski, the man more responsible than any other for the training of men who later became Commonwealth Prime Ministers. At the LSE he gained academic honours.

Service
Has been a journalist, trade unionist, party president, senator, Cabinet Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Vice president of the Socialist International, and Prime Minister of Jamaica.

Authorship
A prolific writer of articles and books. Publications include – The politics of Change (1973), Search for Solutions (1977), JAMAICA: Struggle in the Periphery (1982), Up the Down Escalator (1987), and, A History of West Indies Cricket (1988).

Born
December 10, 1924

Parents
Norman Washington Manley, and wife Edna

Married
Jacqueline nee Kemellardski, 1946
Thelma nee Verity, 1955
Barbara nee Lewars, 1968
Beverley nee Anderson, 1972
Glynne nee Jones, 1992

Children
Rachel, Sarah, Natasha, Joseph, David

Died
March 6, 1997

Age at Death
72-years old

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Legacy

Local constituency organization and national cultural development are two areas of particular achievement for Edward Seaga. For forty years was successful in a constituency that no other politician was able to hold for more than five years. His transformation of depressed inner-city areas within his West Kingston constituency, into vibrant communities, made him the unrivalled king of constituency transformation in Jamaica. Culturally, he was the nation’s leading pioneer of ideas and institutions to promote culture, nationally and internationally.

Personality
A serious and sharp thinker, witty and gifted in producing the apt, cutting phrase. Despite a dour look most times, he has a great sense of humour and is known widely for his exceptional deeds of kindness and rendering of practical assistance to the poor and needy.

Education
Wolmer’s Boys School, in Jamaica, and in the USA, Harvard University, graduating in 1952 with a degree in the Social Sciences.

Service
Long and impressive record of important and innovative accomplishments, beginning formally with his nomination to the Legislative Council at 29 years old, the youngest person ever to hold that membership. He was Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party since 1974. He became Prime Minister in 1980 and held office for two successive terms.

Authorship
Booklets – Parent Teacher Relationship, Development of the Child, and, Revival Cults. Also compiler of an album of music – Folk Music of Jamaica – recorded by Ethnic Folkways Library

Born
May 28, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, of Jamaican parents travelling then, and brought home when three months old.

Parents
Phillip George Seaga and Erna nee Maxwell

Married
Marie Elizabeth ‘Mitzie’ nee Constantine, 1965
Karla Frances nee Vendryes, 1996

Children
Christopher, Andrew, Anabella, Gabrielle

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Jamaica's sixth Prime Minister: March 30, 1992 to March 30, 2006
Legacy

Jamaica’s most successful politician at national level, breaking the ‘third-term’ barrier. His style of leadership is not to rely on fiery rhetoric, but on fundamental principles of procedure. He has done more than any other political leader to date, to empower his associates and to structure a party committed negotiate peace and settle differences through a reconciling process rather than confrontation. His wide experience at national, regional and international level, as a negotiator, has served him well in office as Prime Minister.

Personality
Slim in build, slow of speech, sharp with wit and sure of words. He speaks in measured tones but prudently and perceptively, never missing the essence of issues, and never needing to apologize for statements.

Education
Calabar High School, University College of the West Indies, and London School of Economics, England

Profession
He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1963 and later that year admitted to Bar in Jamaica

Service
His long and distinguished political career stretches back formally to 1958 when he joined the People’s National Party. He moved through several levels to be become President in 1992, the year he became Prime Minister. His first Cabinet post was that of Minister of Tourism (1972).
He has since served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (1978-80), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Planning and Production (1989-90), and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning (1990-91).

Born
April 10, 1935, on Rousseau Road in St. Andrew, Jamaica

Parents
Henry Patterson and wife Ina nee James

Married
August 24, 1960 to Shirley Field-Ridley of Guyana (d.1982)

Children
Richard and Sharon

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The Rt. Hon. Sir Alexander Bustamante
(1884 - 1977)

Sir Alexander Bustamante was born on February 24, 1884 , the son of Robert Constantine Clarke, an Irish planter and Mary Clarke (nee Wilson) a Jamaican of mixed blood. He was named William Alexander Clarke, but later changed his name in 1944 to William Alexander Bustamante. He was the second of five children of the Clarke family. He had three sisters, Louise, Iris and Maude and a younger brother, Herbert. He also had two elder sisters, Ida and Daisy Clarke, by a previous marriage of his father. His grandmother Elsie Clarke-Shearer was also the grandmother of Bustamante’s contemporary and fellow National Hero, Norman Washington Manley.

The Rt. Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer
(1923 - 2004)

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.


The Rt. Hon. Edward Phillip George Seaga, P.C., M.P., LL.D., former Prime Minister (1980-89), Leader of the Opposition since 1989, was born on May 28, 1930 to the late Phillip George Seaga and Erna Seaga (nee Maxwell). He was educated at Wolmer’s Boys’ School in Jamaica and graduated from Harvard University in 1952 with a Bachelor’s Degree in the Social Sciences.

On August 22, 1965 Mr. Seaga married Elizabeth “Mitsy” Constantine, Miss Jamaica 1965.

Mr. Seaga’s political career began in 1959 when Sir Alexander Bustamante, the founder of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), nominated him to serve in the Upper House of the Jamaica Legislature in the Legislative Council (later the Senate). His appointment at age 29 made him the youngest member ever appointed to the Legislative Council, which established the framework for national independence in August 1962

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