Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #4 Alexander Bustamante – Fearless champion of the people
In 1938 demonstrations swept across the island. The worldwide great depression had made the normally…
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #5 Norman Manley Allrounder of Excellence
For Norman Manley, achievement of excellence was the norm; he was a world class high…
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #6 Sam Sharpe – Emancipation hero
The outstanding leader of the 1831 Christmas slave revolt, often referred to as the ‘Baptist…
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #7 Mary Seacole — Black Woman Pioneer
Mary Jane Grant was born in Kingston in 1805 to a Scottish army officer and…
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #8 Paul Bogle – Freedom Martyr
By 1865 the American civil war and a severe drought had dramatically increased food costs…
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #9 William Knibb – Unacknowledged National Hero?
When the white English missionary William Knibb was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit in…
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #10 Michael Manley
Why ‘Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans’? Well why not. Fifty years of independence is a long…