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Published: 2013-09
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Alexander Bustamante, Andrew Holness, Bruce Golding, Donald Sangster, Edward Seaga, Hugh Shearer, Michael Manley, Norman Manley, P. J. Patterson, Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica. Excerpt: Edward Philip George Seaga ( ) ON PC (born 28 May 1930) was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1980 to 1989 and Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 2005. He served as leader of the opposition from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1989 until January 2005. His retirement from political life marked the end of Jamaica's founding generation in active politics; he was the last serving politician to have entered public life before independence. Seaga also played a major role in the development of the Jamaican music industry, as a record producer and record company owner. The Most Honourable Edward Philip George Seaga, O.N. P.C., LL.D. (Hon.), former Prime Minister, 1980-89, Chancellor, University of Technology, Distinguished Fellow of the University of the West Indies, was born on May 28, 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jamaican parents of Lebanese and Scottish descent, the late Philip George Seaga and Erna (nee Maxwell). His parents later returned to Jamaica when Edward was only three months old, and baptised their son in Kingston's Anglican Parish Church on December 5, 1930. Erna was the daughter of Elizabeth Campbell (maiden name), daughter of John Zungaroo Campbell (East Indian descent)and Elizabeth Heron (Scottish). He was educated at Wolmer's Boys' School in Jamaica and graduated from Harvard University in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts (Harvard AB) degree in the Social Sciences. He subsequently took a research post at the University of the West Indies. Seaga's research led to an interest in Jamaican music and in 1955 he supervised the recording of an album of ethnic Jamaican music. He...