The Right Honourable Edward Philip George Seaga (born May 28, 1930) was Prime Minister of Jamaica for the Jamaica Labour Party from 1980 to 1989, and served as leader of the opposition 1989 to January 2005. Seaga's retirement from political life marked the end of a long generation, he was the last serving politician to have entered public life before independence. May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The Prime Minister of Jamaica is Jamaicas head of government, currently Percival Patterson. ... The Jamaica Labour Party is a conservative political party in Jamaica. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Seaga was born in 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts to a family of Lebanese origin. Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded  -Incorporated September 17, 1630 1820, as a city  County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ...

He entered politics as a member of the appointed Legislative Council, the upper house of the pre-independence legislature in 1959. He made his mark in one of his first speeches as a legislator on the theme of 'The Haves and Have Nots'. In the 1960s and 1970s he served as minister of development and welfare in the government of Alexander Bustamante and as minister of finance under Hugh Shearer. He became leader of the JLP in 1974, after becoming MP for Western Kingston in 1962. An upper house (sometimes known as a second chamber) is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante (February 24, 1884 - August 6, 1977) was a conservative Jamaican politician and labor leader. ... This article is about the former Jamaican Prime Minister, Hugh Shearer. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Location of Kingston Kingston (population 600,000) is the capital of Jamaica. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Initially seen as a man of the left when he began his political career, Seaga moved to the right when he took over the JLP from Hugh Shearer in 1974 in a sustained attempt to wrest political power from the rival People's National Party led by Michael Manley. In this regard Seaga helped foment a culture of political terror that bordered on civil war in the infamous 1970s and the comparitively peaceful times of previous decades swiftly became a thing of the past. To ensure external support that would lead to electoral success, Seaga's Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) actively supported and funded many of Jamaica's vicious gangsters and street gangs who unleashed a reign of terror in which many homes were set on fire, people shot as they tried to escape the inferno and fire-trucks prevented from putting out the fires. His efforts were counteracted by the party of his opponent, Prime Minister Michael Manley, but the forces of the JLP prevailed even though Manley won the 1976 general elections. Michael Norman Manley (December 10, 1924 – March 6, 1997) was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992). ...

For a while things were comparitively quiet in Jamaica. But by early 1978 the long and bloody campaign leading to the October 1980 election was renewed in earnest. It was at this time that Seaga made it clear in both Washington and Kingston that he would align Jamaica with the United States, break diplomatic relations with Cuba, and abolish the levy that Manley had placed on bauxite, and which had angered the mainly US bauxite companies. It was at this time too that he spoke often about Jamaica needing "a military solution." Indeed, the tenor of his speeches and activities in the US led to his being censured by the Jamaican parliament in 1979.

But, weary of the gun terror, the electorate dumped the PNP and elected Seaga. His electoral victory in October 1980 (the JLP won 51 of the 60 seats in Jamaica's House of Representatives), led to his becoming one of the first foreign heads of government to visit newly elected US president Ronald Reagan early the next year. With Tom Adams of Barbados, Seaga was one of the architects of the Caribbean Basin Initiative sponsored by Reagan. He delayed his promise tocut diplomatic relations with Cuba until a year later when he accused the Cuban government of giving asylum to Jamaican criminals. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... John Michael Geoffrey Manningham Adams (1931 - 1985) was a Barbados political figure. ... U.S. unilateral initiative originated in the 1983 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. It aimed at providing several tariff and trade benefits to Central American and caribbean countries. ...

The collapse of the revolutionary regime in Grenada, and the US invasion of that island in October 1983, got stalwart support from Seaga. On the back of the Grenada invasion, Seaga called snap elections at the end of 1983, which Manley's Opposition party boycotted. His party thus controlled all seats in parliament. In an unusual move, because the Jamaican constitution required that there be an opposition in the appointed Senate, Seaga appointed eight independent senators to form an official opposition. It is to his credit that he avoided turning the country into a dictatorship during this period. 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ...

Never as universally popular as Michael Manley, Seaga's fortunes slumped after 1983, in large part because he lost US support when he was unable to deliver on his early promises of removing the bauxite levy. Indeed, a spate of articles attacking Seaga now appeared in the US media and a gilt-edge committee of US businessmen led by David Rockefeller which had descended on Jamaica after the 1980 election packed up their bags and went home in disgust. Rioting in 1987 and 1988, his government's failure to respond adequately to Hurricane Gilbert in 1989, the fact that Michael Manley had remained consistently the most popular politician in Jamaica, and the fact that the political terror had virtually disappeared once Seaga had gained power, also contributed to his defeat in the 1989 elections. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Seaga remained leader of the Jamaica Labour Party until January of 2005. He made several attempts to regain the Prime Ministership, running in vain against Manley's successor Percival Patterson in three more elections before stepping down as party chief. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Right Honourable Percival Noel James Patterson (born April 10, 1935) is the current Prime Minister of Jamaica (since 1992) and is the leader of the Jamaican Peoples National Party. ...

Michael Norman Manley (December 10, 1924 – March 6, 1997) was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992). ... The Prime Minister of Jamaica is Jamaicas head of government, currently Percival Patterson. ... Michael Norman Manley (December 10, 1924 – March 6, 1997) was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992). ...