FIRST ®- A Jamaican Magazine | Peter Dean Rickards » alexander bustamante http://www.first-magazine.net A Jamaican Magazine Fri, 14 May 2010 13:10:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Bustamante: the politics of style http://www.first-magazine.net/2010/02/bustamante-the-politics-of-style/ http://www.first-magazine.net/2010/02/bustamante-the-politics-of-style/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:03:28 +0000 FIRST http://www.first-magazine.net/?p=5546 When politicians try they tend to overdo it, think jiggy-ancients Robert Pickersgill and Mike Henry. Yet they had former Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante to inspire them…


Source: National Library of Jamaica

]]> http://www.first-magazine.net/2010/02/bustamante-the-politics-of-style/feed/ 0 Alexander Bustamante’s amazing revolutionary afro, 1953 http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/06/alexander-bustamantes-amazing-revolutionary-afro-1953/ http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/06/alexander-bustamantes-amazing-revolutionary-afro-1953/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:31:07 +0000 First http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/06/30/alexander-bustamantes-amazing-revolutionary-afro-1953/ They made Busta Chief Minister of Jamaica and just nine years later in 1962, we got Independence. With this hair, the British had no choice.

After travelling the world, including working as a policeman in Cuba and as a dietician in a New York City hospital, he returned to Jamaica in 1932 and became a leader of the struggle against colonial rule. He first brought himself to public attention as a writer of letters to the Daily Gleaner newspaper.

An interesting life…

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