May 2, 2017
The Rt. Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer (1923 - 2004) Name: Hugh Lawson Shearer Born: May 18, 1923 Died: July 5, 2004 Industry: Politics; Government; Trade Unionism Born on May 18, 1923 at Martha Brae, Trelawny, close to the sugar and banana areas. He attended St. Simon’s...
May 2, 2017
The Most Hon. Edward Phillip George Seaga, ON, P.C., LL.D. (Hon.) (1930 - ) The Most Hon. Edward Phillip George Seaga, ON, P.C., LL.D. (Hon.), former Prime Minister (1980-89), Leader of the Opposition from 1989 to 2006, was born on May 28, 1930 to the late Phillip...
May 2, 2017
Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Name: Mary Jane Grant Seacole Born: November 23, 1805 Died: May 14, 1881 Industry: Medicine, Nursing Mary Seacole was born Mary Joan Grant in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805 to a Creole mother and a Scottish father. It was from her mother that she...
May 2, 2017
The Rt. Hon. Sir Donald Sangster (1911 - 1967) Name: Donald Burns Sangster Birth: October 26, 1911 Death: April 11, 1967 Industry: Politics; Government; Prime Minister Sir Donald was born on October 26, 1911 . He was the son of the late W. B. Sangster, Commissioned...
May 2, 2017
Oliver Samuels (1948 - ) Name: Oliver Adolphus Samuels Birth: November 4, 1948 Industry: Actor, Comedian Oliver Adolphus Samuels, actor and comedian was born November 4, 1948 in Harmony Hall, St. Mary. He grew up on a banana plantation where his father worked as a...
