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After Jamaica was granted independence in 1962, Bustamante served as the first Prime Minister until 1967. In April 1963 he ordered the police and army to "Bring in all Rastas, dead or alive" [ 14 ] and over 150 Rastas were detained and an unknown number killed. [ 15 ]
After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.
Gladys Longbridge married Sir Alexander Bustamante on 7 September 1962, shortly after Jamaica achieved independence from the United Kingdom in August 1962. She was 28 years younger than he. [2] Bustamante remained the first Prime Minister of Jamaica until his resignation in 1967 due to ill health. [2]
This resulted in the independence of Jamaica on 6 August 1962, and several other British colonies in the West Indies followed suit in the next decade. Bustamante had replaced Manley as premier between April and August, and on independence, he became Jamaica's first prime minister.
Prime Minister; Took office Left office Time in office 1 Sir Kenneth Blackburne (1907–1980) 6 August 1962 30 November 1962 116 days Elizabeth II Bustamante: 2 Sir Clifford Campbell (1892–1991) 1 December 1962 28 February 1973 10 years, 89 days Elizabeth II Bustamante Sangster Shearer Manley – Sir Herbert Duffus (1908–2002) 28 February ...
The prime minister of Jamaica (Jamaican Patois: Prime Minista a Jumieka) is Jamaica's head of government, currently Andrew Holness.Holness, as leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), was sworn in as prime minister on 7 September 2020, having been re-elected as a result of the JLP's landslide victory in the 2020 Jamaican general election.
The Jamaica Independence Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that granted independence to Jamaica with effect from 6 August 1962. As a result of the Act, Jamaica became the first English-speaking country in the West Indies to achieve full independence from the United Kingdom.
He served as Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1950 to 1956 and as Governor of Jamaica from 1957 until 1962. When Jamaica received its independence in August 1962, Blackburne was appointed as the Governor-General; he served in that position for three months till 30 November 1962 when his Jamaican replacement, Clifford Campbell , took office.