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We took off across the Atlantic from London Heathrow at 8.30 pm-late, because of a pressurization problem. Our route on the first leg of the flight was over Bristol and Shannon to Gander, Newfoundland. Crossing Newfoundland, I detected snow patches on the bare rock below and in the distance the Northern Lights—green fluorescent stripes in the sky. There was snow and ice on the runway at Gander, which caused flurries to be thrown up into the propellers of our turboprop aircraft when we arrived just after 4 am. The terminal building is modern—the antithesis of Heathrow’s huts, and the raison d’être of Gander as a settlement.
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Sir Alexander Bustamante (1884–1977). Politician, planter, pen-keeper, and trade unionist. Member of Parliament 1944 onward; Chief Minister (1953–55); leader of the opposition in parliament (1955–62); leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, and head of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union [Clifton Neita (ed.) Who’s Who Jamaica 1960 (Kingston: Who’s Who (Jamaica) Ltd., 1960), 91–92], In independence prime minister (1962–67).
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Edith Clarke, My Mother Who Fathered Me: A Study of the Family in Three Selected Communities in Jamaica (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1957).
George Roberts, The Population of Jamaica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957).
Donald Owen Mills (b. Mandeville, 1921). Educated Elem. School Chapleton; Jamaica College (1932–39); London University (1947–50); religion, Anglican. Joined Civil Service (Treasury) 1941; statistician, Central Bureau of Statistics (1950–53); senior statistician (1953–57); Principal assistant secretary, Central Planning Unit, 1957 onward. In Jamaica’s independence he was director of the Central Planning Unit (1962–68), and ambassador and permanent representative of Jamaica to the United Nations (1973–81). Awarded the Order of Jamaica in 1979 [Roy Dickson, The Jamaica Directory of Personalities 1985–87 (Kingston: Gleaner Company, 1987), 259–260].
M. G. Smith, Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford, The Ras Tafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica (Kingston: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University College of the West Indies, 1960).
This University of London doctorate was published as W. F. Maunder, Employment in an Underdeveloped Area (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1960).
Walt Rostow, The Stages ofEconomic Growth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960).
Edward (Eddie) Seaga (b. Boston, USA, 1930) Manufacturer and Legislator. Educated Wolmer’s School (1941–48) and Harvard University (1948–52); religion Anglican. Managing director of West Indies Records Ltd; member of the Legislative Council 1959–62, and in 1962 elected member of the House of Representatives; minister with various portfolios (Social Welfare 1962–67 and Finance and Development 1967–72), Leader of the Opposition, and Prime Minister of Jamaica 1980–89 [Neita, Who’s Who Jamaica 1960, 429; Edward Seaga, Edward Seaga: My Life and Leadership, 1930–1980 (Oxford: Macmillan, 2010].
Katrin Norris (b. Germany 1936 as Katrin Thiele). In 1946 she went to England with her English-born mother, and adopted her grandmother’s English surname, Norris. She graduated with an Oxford BA degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, having been a student at St. Anne’s College (1955–58) [Katrin Fitzherbert, True to Both My Selves (London: Virago, 1998)]. In 1960 she visited the United States and Cuba, where she met John Vickers and traveled with him to Jamaica. She was employed as a reporter on the Daily Gleaner, and mixed in left-wing circles while in Jamaica in 1960–61, including the PFM, and was threatened with expulsion from Jamaica for possessing banned literature (World Student News). She married John Vickers in April 1961, LSIC Report April 1961, para. 9, CO 1031/3709, C410239. Norris returned to the United Kingdom and published Jamaica: The Search for an Identity (London: Oxford University Press, 1962). Her activities and those of John Vickers in Jamaica in 1960–61 are detailed in the LSIC Reports, CO1031/3708 and 9, C410239, TNA, PRO.
Fernando Henriques, Family and Colour in Jamaica (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1953).
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Clarke, C. (2016). Jamaica: A British Colony on the Eve of Independence. In: Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540782_3
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