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Prime Minister Edward Seaga

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"Prime Minister Edward Seaga presents to Hon. Vere Cornwall Bird, a dispatch box, made of Jamaican Mahoe embellished with a map of Antigua and Barbuda when he paid a courtesy call in Antigua."

David Paton

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"Project Orbis - an eye clinic aboard a DC-8 jet which provides medical treatment for serious eye disorders worldwide is scheduled to visit Jamaica by mid 1982. The announcement was made at Jamaica House on Tuesday. The jet will come to the island…

St. Ann's Bay

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"SITE PLAN FOR NEW OPERATING THEATRE: St. Ann's Bay Hospital will now have a new modern operating theatre for $625,000. The building will house changing rooms for doctors, nurses, anaesthesists, a sterilizing department and recovery ward.…

Cecil Charlton, Mayor of Mandeville (with mic)

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"For Workers' Fun: Cecil Charlton, Mayor of Mandeville (with mic) cuts the ribbon to declare open the Recreational Centre for Public Health workers attached to the Manchester Parish Council, at a function in Mandeville on Thursday. Others from left:…

John Pringle, Director of Tourism

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Jamaica's first Director of Tourism, John Pringle, who served between 1963 and 1967. He also founded the Round Hill Hotel in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Sir Alexander Bustamante, Sir Donald Sangster and Lady Bustamante at King's House function after independence

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Prime Minister, Sir Alexander Bustamante in conversation with his wife, Lady Bustamante and then Minister of Finance, Donald Sangster at an Independence Day function.

Sir Alexander Bustamante, a portrait ca. 1960's

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Candid portrait of Sir Alexander Bustamante, first Prime Minister of Independent Jamaica.

W.A. Bustamante standing in a car in a motorcade

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Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante greeting the throng of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters surrounding his motorcade.

Sir Alexander Bustamante watches as Lady B pins independence medal on U.S. Ambassador, William C. Doherty

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United States Ambassador to Jamaica, William C. Doherty, receiving a Jamaica independence medal from Gladys ''Lady B'' Bustamante. Sir Alexander Bustamante and Sir Donald Sangster among others, are in the background.

D. Theophilus Wint, Member of the Assembly

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Mr. Dunbar Theophilus Wint - educator, journalist and former member of the Assembly and the St. Ann Legislative Council.