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Welcome to the Jamaica Labour Party Online
Welcome to the Jamaica Labour Party's website, jamaicalabourparty.com. Through this medium we hope you will become more aware of our history, our fundamental beliefs, our vision for Jamaica and the policies that support it as well as the personalities who comprise the broad leadership or our Party.
Our Manifesto
Jamaica Labour Party - Manifesto 2007
OUR COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF JAMAICA
Message from the Leader
JLP Anthem
VERSE 1
Equal rights and justice
Is our everlasting song.
Unity and progress
Will make our nation strong
CHORUS:
Stand up for your rights when you hear the bell,
Stand up for justice -
Hear the freedom bell. Remember Bustamante,
He served you well -
Stand up Jamaicans - when you hear the bell
Stand up Jamaicans - when you hear the bell.
JLP Pledge
I am a Labourite,
Facts & Achievements
A History of Performance - The J.L.P. in Government
Fed up with years of oppression, the waterfront workers of Kingston go on strike and send for Alexander Bustamante, He takes charge.
Constitution of Jamaica
Constitution of 1962 (with Reforms through 1999)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of July, 1962
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL
Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf by subsection (1) of section 5 of the West Indies Act, 1962 or otherwise in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
JLP TV
Welcome to JLP Television
History of the JLP
The Formative Years 1938 -1962
On the 10th April 1962, the Jamaica Labour Party won the general elections which were called to decide which Party should lead the island into Independence. In accepting the victory, Sir Alexander Bustamante the Prime Minister-Designate made a radio broadcast in which be restated the principles which had guided the Party since it was founded on July 8 1943, and which would still guide it as it led Jamaica on the path of nationhood. In the course of the broadcast he said:
G2K CALLS ON JAMAICANS TO NOT RIOT
Mon, 2009-05-18 15:25
April 23, 2009
Generation 2000, the young professional affiliate of the Jamaica Labour Party is calling on the Jamaican people to resist any incitement to riot post the presentation of Minister of Finance, the Honourable Audley Shaw.
The organization is reacting to persistent rumors that an island wide protest is being planned for Friday, by elements intent on scoring political points and destabilizing the country.
SIMPSON-MILLER’S BUDGET PRESENTATION A DISAPPOINTMENT
Mon, 2009-05-18 15:28
April 30, 2009
Generation 2000, G2K, the young professional affiliate of the Jamaica Labour Party in a release today gave a “thumbs down” to Opposition Leader the Most Honourable Portia Simpson-Miller’s budget presentation in Gordon House this afternoon.
PRESENTATION BY THE HON. BRUCE GOLDING. M.P PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA BUDGET PRESENTATION 2009/10
Prime Minister of Jamaica, Hon. Bruce Golding
OPENING PRESENTATION BY THE HON. AUDLEY SHAW MINISTER OF FINANCE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE, THE 2009/2010 BUDGET DEBATE
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw
Sir Alexander Bustamante
William Alexander Bustamante (1884-1977) was Jamaica's first Prime Minister. He campaigned for workers' rights, and he was imprisoned for standing up for his beliefs. He founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union [BITU], the first trade union in Jamaica. Later he founded the Jamaica Labour Party [JLP]. Son of an Irish planter named Robert Constantine Clarke and a coloured Jamaican woman , Mary Clarke. He was registered William Alexander Clarke but later changed his name by deed poll. Bustamante attended Primary school at Cacoon and Dalmally and also did private studies.
Sir Donald Sangster
Sir Donald Sangster was the son of W.B. Sangster, a land surveyor, and his wife Cassandra. He was born in Black River, St. Elizabeth on October 26, 1911. He was educated at Munro College in the parish and was a solicitor by profession. He began his political career at the age of 21 when he was elected to the St. Elizabeth Parish Council in 1933. He later became a member of the House of Representatives for South St. Elizabeth and then for North East Clarendon.
Political Career
Hugh Shearer
The Most Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer, Jamaica’s third Prime Minister, was born in the village of Martha Brae just outside of Falmouth, Trelawny on May 18, 1923. His parents were James Shearer a World War One ex-serviceman and Esther Lindo, a dressmaker.
He attended the Falmouth Primary school and from there he won the parish scholarship to St. Simon’s College, a privately owned high school in Kingston. He graduated from St. Simon’s in 1940.
Edward Seaga
The Most Honourable Edward Philip George Seaga, O.N. P.C., M.P., LL.D. (Hon.), former Prime Minister, 1980-89, Leader of the Opposition between 1989 and 2006, was born on May 28, 1930 to the late Philip George Seaga and Erna (nee Maxwell). He was educated at Wolmer’s Boys’ School in Jamaica and graduated from Harvard University in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the Social Sciences.
Political Career
Bruce Golding
Bruce Golding was born on 5th December 1947, the son of Tacius Golding and Enid Golding (nee Bent), both teachers. He was the third of four children, the second (the only girl) died shortly after birth. He was actually born in Clarendon at the home of his godmother, Mrs. Winnifred Stewart (who was the mother of Mrs. Percival Broderick) where his mother was staying in order to be close to her doctor. However, a few days after he was born he was taken to the family home at Ginger Ridge, St Catherine where his birth was officially registered.
