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The Right Honourable Hugh Lawson Shearer (May 18, 1923 – July 5, 2004) was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972. May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Prime Minister of Jamaica is Jamaicas head of government, currently Percival Patterson. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ...

Born in Martha Brae, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, near the sugar and banana growing areas, Shearer attended St Simon's College after winning a parish scholarship to the school. Sir Jonathan Trelawney (March 24th 1650, Trelawny, Cornwall - July 19th 1721, Chelsea, Middlesex) was Bishop of Bristol, Exeter and Winchester. ... Magnified view of refined sugar crystals. ... Species Hybrid origin; see text A banana plant is a herb, in the genus Musa, which because of its size and structure, is often mistaken for a tree. ...

In 1941 he took a job on the staff of a weekly trade union newspaper, the Jamaican Worker. His first political promotion came in 1943, when Sir Alexander Bustamante (founder of the Jamaican Labour Party) took over editorship of the paper and took Shearer under his wing. Shearer continued to get promotion after promotion within the union and acquired a Government Trade Union scholarship in 1947. For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante (February 24, 1884 - August 6, 1977) was a conservative Jamaican politician and labor leader. ... The Jamaica Labour Party is a right-wing political party in Jamaica. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ...

He was appointed Island Supervisor of Bustamante's trade union, BITU, and shortly afterwards elected Vice President of the union.

Shearer was elected to the House of Representatives as member for Western Kingston in 1955, an office he retained for the next four years until he was defeated in the 1959 elections. House of Representatives is a name used for legislative bodies in many countries. ... The location of Kingston Kingston (population 652,000) is the capital of Jamaica. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ...

He was a member of the Senate from 1962 to 1967, at the same time filling the role of Jamaica's chief spokesman on foreign affairs as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United Nations. In 1967 he was elected as member for Southern Clarendon and, after the death of Sir Donald Sangster, appointed Prime Minister on April 11, 1967. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... For people, places and things called Clarendon, see: Clarendon, England Clarendon, South Australia Clarendon, Jamaica Clarendon, New York Clarendon, Texas Clarendon, Virginia (a district of Arlington County) Clarendon (Washington Metro) Clarendon Press Earl of Clarendon Clarendon Films, a former British film studio This is a disambiguation page — a list of... Sir Donald Burns Sangster (October 26, 1911 - April 11, 1967) was a Jamaican politician and Prime Minister of Jamaica. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ...

Thanks to his work with the Jamaican Worker earlier in his life, Shearer managed to stay on generally good terms with the Jamaican working class, and was generally well liked by the populace. However, he did cause an outcry of anger in October of 1968 when his government banned the historian, Walter Rodney from re-entering the country. On October 16 a series of riots, known as the Rodney Riots broke out, after peaceful protest by students from the University of the West Indies campus at Mona, was suppressed by police; rioting spreading throughout Kingston. Shearer stood by the ban claiming that Rodney was a danger to Jamaica, citing his socialist ties, trips to Cuba and the USSR, as well as his radical Black nationalism. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Walter Rodney (March 23, 1942 - June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political figure. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... This article is about riots in the Caribbean in 1968. ... The University of the West Indies (UWI) is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 16 countries in the Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. ... The location of Kingston Kingston (population 652,000) is the capital of Jamaica. ... Black nationalist flag // Black nationalism is a political and social movement arising in the 1960s and early 70s mostly among African Americans in the United States. ...

Shearer was generally uncomfortable with notions of pan-Africanism or militant black nationalism. He was also insecure about the stability of newly independent Jamaica in the late 1960s. Pan-Africanism is a term which can have two separate, but related meanings. ...

His term as Prime Minister was a prosperous one for Jamaica, with three new alumina refineries were built, along with three large tourist resorts. These six buildings formed the basis of Jamaica's mining and tourism industries, the two biggest earners for the country. Aluminium oxide (or aluminum oxide) (Al2O3) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen. ... More than 3 million tourists visited the Taj Mahal in Agra, India in 2004. ... Resorts combine a hotel and a variety of recreations, such as swimming pools A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ...

Shearer's term was also marked by a great upswing in secondary school enrolment after an intense education campaign on his part. Fifty new schools were constructed.

It was by pressure from Shearer that the Law of the Sea Authority chose Kingston to house its headquarters. Admiralty law (usually referred to as simply admiralty and also referred to as maritime law) is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. ...

In the 1972 elections, the JLP was defeated and the People's National Party leader, Michael Manley, became Prime Minister. Between 1980 and 1989, during the prime ministership of Edward Seaga, who had succeeded him as leader of the JLP in 1974, Shearer was deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs. For other uses, see Peoples National Party (disambiguation). ... Michael Norman Manley (December 10, 1924 – March 6, 1997) was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992). ...

He died at his home in Kingston on July 5, 2004, at the age of 81. The Rt. Honorable Hugh Lawson Shearer was survived by his by his wife Dr. Denise Eldemire Shearer; sons, Corey Alexander, Howard, and Lance; and daughters, Hope, Hillary, Mischka Garel, and Heather. The location of Kingston Kingston (population 652,000) is the capital of Jamaica. ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sources

Neita, Hartley 2005. Hugh Shearer; A Voice for the People. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, The Institute of Jamaica. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Senior, Olive 2003. Encyclopaedia of Jamaican Heritage. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...