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	trinicenter.com - Jamaica: Little Known Secret About Edward Seaga (JLP)
		As early as 1979, Edward Seaga in conjunction with the United States government proposed the need for a Puerto Rico style relationship (and a mini-Marshall Plan) for the entire Caribbean and the USA.
		The CBI is a political model (based on the Puerto Rican model) and is comprised of economic arrangements between the USA and certain Caribbean and Central American counties.
		Seaga remains someone who is a close ally of the United States, knows the Jamaican culture inside out, is good at manipulating and inciting his constituents (just laying the ground work for upcoming elections).
	www.trinicenter.com /Gilkes/16072001.htm (471 words)

	Edward Seaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seaga was born in 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts to parents of Levantine Christian Arab and Scottish origin.
		Seaga and the JLP won the 1980 election by an overwhelming majority - 57 percent of the popular vote and 51 of the 60 seats in the House of Representatives.
		Seaga supported the collapse of the Marxist regime in Grenada and the subsequent US-led invasion of that island in October 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Seaga (841 words)

	Seaga, Edward - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		SEAGA, EDWARD [Seaga, Edward], 1930-, prime minister of Jamaica (1980-89).
		Seaga retired from parliament and as JLP leader in 2005.
		Seaga: our major problem is the image of a devastated Jamaica: nation's Prime Minister speaks of the future after Gilbert's fury.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-seaga-e1d.html (286 words)

	The satirical Edward Seaga - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Opposition Leader Edward Seaga (right) accepts a plaque from Kingston mayor Desmond McKenzie during yesterday's ceremony in which the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation honoured six of the country's former prime ministers.
		EDWARD Seaga was at his satirical best yesterday when he accepted, on behalf of the country's six prime ministers, honours bestowed on them by the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation.
		But Seaga said Manley, known for his tendency to "bawl out" on certain issues, was passionate about what should be said.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20040802T210000-0500_63903_OBS_THE_SATIRICAL_EDWARD_SEAGA.asp (380 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Jamaican parliament says farewell to Seaga
		Seaga’s historic involvement in the drafting of the independence Constitution, his service as Prime Minister for nine consecutive years, his leadership of the JLP for 30 years, his over four decades of representation of West Kingston, and his unrivalled contribution to the construction of the social and economic fabric of the nation, Mr.
		Seaga for his “tremendous and selfless contribution to the building of Jamaica”, while hailing him as a fierce and astute political competitor who could “never be accused of lacking in vim, vigour and vitality”.
		Seaga as a “towering political visionary and icon”, while noting that his interest and initiatives in the development of culture, both in his constituency and the nation, was by far his most important contribution.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/01/21/par.shtml (1381 words)

	Mr. Seaga's Jamaica: an inside look - Prime Minister Edward Seaga Monthly Review - Find Articles
		Seaga's Jamaica.' It would be equally correct to refer to Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 as "Mr.
		Seaga and his Madison Avenue apparatchiks entreat us to "Come back to [his] Jamaica,' to witness life as it unfolds in his and the JLP's vision of Jamaica.
		Seaga's vision, however, he/she needs not be firecely partisan or ideological to come to the conclusion that something has gone terribly wrong, that all is not well in this nation that was supposed to be Mr.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_v37/ai_3913893 (641 words)

	The U.S. Message to Jamaica's Seaga: It's Time to Keep Your Promise
		Seaga's Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) swept to electoral victory on October 30, 1980, with a mandate for change as great as that won by Reagan less than a week later.
		Seaga declared that !!all such leases will be subject to agreement to develop the land on the basis of an asreed farm Dlan which ensures that the land is neyer used in a manner contrary to the planned national interest.
		Although Seaga probably will be able to hang onto power until then, public opinion polls indicate that unless he ignites the economy, Michael Manley's PNP will return to power in Jamaica in the twilight months of the Reagan Administration.
	www.heritage.org /Research/LatinAmerica/bg531.cfm (3241 words)

	<Jamaica National Heritage Trust News > (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seaga was Minister of Development and Welfare on November 16, 1964, when he announced Marcus Garvey as the nation's first National Hero.
		Seaga explained that: "Marcus Garvey’s message sought to liberate minds from mental slavery, even as his predecessors had sought to remove the physical shackles and to change the written laws and unwritten customs.
		Seaga said that "no well-thinking person can fault the powerful demand made by Garvey upon his people, to stand up in this world with heads held high, proud of themselves as created, bestowed by a loving God, even as their ancestors had been.
	www.jnht.com /currnews/seagaspeaks.htm (359 words)

	Making Change happen in Real Jamaican Style...Election 1989 - Jamaicans.com Articles & Columns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seaga really did know how to put on a show, while keeping our national flame rife; resources were always put aside to commemorate the night the union jack dropped and we arose from oppressive darkness to take our place among powerful nations.
		Seaga made Tivoli a place worthy to live; this was the cry from the community members themselves.
		Seaga tried to play off the Tivoli development as one of an advanced networking centre for civil society and a training ground for nurturing artistic skills and talent, the ultimate preparation centre for youths from the inner city for the job market.
	www.jamaicans.com /articles/0902_election1989.htm (4171 words)

	NACLA Digital Archive - JAMAICA A Comeback Washington Wont't Like (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		...Seaga was the first foreign head of state received by President Reagan and became the chief Caribbean spokesperson for Reagan's poli- cies there...
		...Seaga is like a father who is happy that his big son is doing well but is unaware that the wash belly [baby] is malnourished...
		...Seaga was the first foreign head of state received by President Reagan and became the chief Caribbean spokesperson for Reagan's policies there...
	archive.nacla.org /Summaries/V22I3P12-1.htm (2894 words)

	Two Westminster-Style Caudillos Vie for the Future - Howard J. Wiarda
		EDWARD SEAGA: Edward Seaga is a good man, a clever politician, and a first-rate prime minister; however, Jamaica is a difficult country to govern.
		Seaga and Manley may be looked on as the two great caudillos, or men-on-horseback, of modern Jamaican politics.
		Seaga attended the Wolmers Boys School in Kingston and received a bachelor of arts in social...
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1988/april/Sa13591.htm (357 words)

	Trinidad News, Trinidad Newspaper, Trinidad Sports, Trinidad politics, Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago News, Trinidad ...
		After Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the USA on January 20, 1981, Edward Seaga as Jamaica's prime minister was the first head of state to visit Reagan as president.
		He lambasted Edward Seaga and Ronald Reagan, and spoke about a new and ugly type of tourist advertising that had begun with the advent of the JLP government.
		Seaga called a snap election, which the PNP refused to contest because the voters' list was three years old.
	www.trinidadexpress.com /index.pl/article_opinion?id=25987748 (898 words)

	<Jamaica National Heritage Trust News> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Edward Jordon was of mixed descent, born free in about 1800.
		Edward Jordan and a group of young men like himself, launched a determined civil rights campaign through a society which they formed in 1820.
		The Sam Sharpe rebellion helped Edward Jordan to win his objectives because it shook up the society and the British government and brought the question of human rights very clearly to the forefront.
	www.jnht.com /currnews/seagaspeaks2.htm (2020 words)

	Jamaica Election 2002 :Seaga says a JLP win would right the balance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		EDWARD SEAGA, the JLP leader, says that this Thursday's Local Government Elections would be an opportunity for Jamaicans to correct what, he said, were some of the mistakes made in October when the People's National Party was elected to administer the affairs of central government.
		Seaga said, that the election be used to redistribute political power with a better balance so that the people would have an alternative.
		Seaga blasted the Govern-ment's decision to replace the British Privy Council with "the untried and untested" Caribbean Court of Justice "which will be more sensitive to the policies of government."
	www.jamaicaelections.com /news/20030616-3.html (418 words)

	Manley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seaga was elected on a promise that money would soon be "jingling in people's pockets.' The turnaround of the economy would be based on a surge of export-led growth, principally in manufactured goods and nontraditional agricultural products, such as flowers and winter vegetables.
		Seaga also promised to encourage the growth of Jamaica's two largest official foreign exchange earners, tourism and bauxite/alumina, and, prodded by Washington, to crack down on ganja, or marijuana, which may be the island's number-one export.
		Seaga gave little encouragement to the majority of Jamaican farmers, who subsist on meager incomes from their tiny plots.
	shs.westport.k12.ct.us /chia/Caribbean/NTTHresearchproj/manley2.htm (2429 words)

	People's National Party
		Conversely, Seaga's continued leadership of the JLP would be a substantial asset in the quest by the People's National Party (PNP) to gain a fourth consecutive term in government in general elections, which are to take place by yearend.
		Stone raised the issue of Seaga's leadership in the context of the party's four percentage point slippage in support between last July and November, to 25.4 per cent, although it remained ahead of the PNP (20 per cent).
		In fact, the proportion of the electorate who say that Seaga should step down is the same as when Stone last raised the issue in a private survey two years ago, the pollsters explained.
	www.pnpjamaica.com /innewsfeb25a.htm (640 words)

	Jamaica Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was led by Edward Seaga from 1974 to 2004.
		In that year, Seaga stepped down from leadership and was replaced by Bruce Golding, a man with a reputation as a centrist.
		It currently has 26 of the 60 seats in the Jamaica House of Representatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jamaica_Labour_Party (243 words)

	Seaga denies Golding rift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Former Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga, who last week announced that he will step down as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has denied there is acrimony between him and his party chairman Bruce Golding.
		This comes after it was revealed that Mr Seaga wrote a harshly critical letter to Mr Golding, who is one of the leading contenders for the JLP leadership.
		Mr Seaga regards Mr Golding as one of his protégés, and stressed that he was not seeking to damage his campaign and he hoped that the party chairman would heed the advice given because it would help him to be a better leader if he succeeded in the leadership race.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /jamaica/rift.htm (323 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Profile: Edward Seaga
		Edward Seaga, the main rival to Prime Minister PJ Patterson in Jamaica's elections, has been a significant figure on the political scene since the country's independence 40 years ago.
		Mr Seaga, a banker by profession who now describes himself as a businessman and politician, has been credited with promoting economic and cultural development on the island, including crafts and performing arts.
		Mr Seaga - pronounced see-ah-gah - was born in the United States to Jamaican parents of Lebanese and Scottish ancestry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/2333211.stm (423 words)

	Mr Seaga Departs
		On his departure from Parliament after a record 46 years, 43 of them as MP for West Kingston, Mr Edward Seaga expressed regret that the country remained divided between the haves and the have nots and that there had been few if any gains in the areas of governance, justice, education and the economy.
		Seaga had denounced the PNP as Communist and prophesied dire consequences for Jamaica if they were to win the 1980 general elections.
		Seaga treasures his enemies There is a poignant story in Friday’s Gleaner by Heather Robinson who relates how, on Seaga’s orders, she was prevented from working in her government job for two years and turned to catering to survive.
	www.nathanielturner.com /mrseagadeparts.htm (1772 words)

	Westindian Times - Caribbean Sports News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Honorable Edward Seaga, former Prime Minister of Jamaica and head of the Tivoli Gardens Football Club spoke directly to Lady Cham expressing his deep regret that the club would not be playing in Virginia tonight.
		Seaga, the Promoter, Noel Miller, who set up the 7 overseas games for the Tivoli team failed to fulfill even one of his obligations in terms of fees, accommodations and other aspects of the agreement.
		Seaga stated that whilst the team was working with the new promoter, Mr.
	www.westindiantimes.net /spt/10.html (448 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner : Pieces of the Past:The Arrival Of The Lebanese
		George Seaga's family came to Jamaica at the turn of the century, c1900.
		Some Lebanese immigrants, such as those from the village of Schweifat, did speak English as it had been taught in school their region of the Middle East.
		Edward Seaga, the country's longest serving Minister of Parliament, current leader of the Jamaica Labour Party and former Prime Minister.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story0056.htm (1900 words)

	Castro makes peace with old foe Seaga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seaga said his meeting with Castro, the first between them, was ``very amiable, very frank and vintage Castro, in that we both had an opportunity to talk around the subject.''
		In 1980, when Seaga succeeded Manley as prime minister, ``the economy was in shambles, almost bankrupt.
		Seaga expelled the ambassador and cut ties with Havana.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/fcf/piecefidelseaga.html (507 words)

	Cayman Net News: Legendary Jamaican plans for future years
		Mr Seaga, who is soon to resign as his country’s opposition leader, came to watch his local football team Tivoli Gardens play the Cayman Islands at the Henry Bodden stadium last Saturday.
		Mr Seaga has represented his constituency of Western Kingston for 42 years and became leader of the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) in 1974, serving as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1989.
		Mr Seaga is credited with starting the Jamaican recording industry when he founded the West Indian Record Label (WIRL) in 1958, releasing the music of local artists.
	www.caymannetnews.com /2004/08/717/seaga.shtml (802 words)

	People's National Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In an address to party supporters at Cross Roads, St Elizabeth, Phillips said that this election was "perhaps the most serious of all" as with it came the chance of putting an end to the type of politics Edward Seaga (leader of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party) represents.
		Seaga, he said, needed nobody to demonise him, as he has always demonised himself with his various utterances.
		Golding, he said, was trained by Edward Seaga, and had modelled his life and politics off the Opposition leader, adding that Jamaica could not afford another period of a 'Seaga clone'.
	www.pnpjamaica.com /innewsoct14b.htm (358 words)

	History - Jamaica - Caribbean: christopher columbus, arawak tribe, jamaica parliament, edward seaga, house patterson
		Members of the Arawak tribe, an important group of the Arawakan linguistic stock of Native North Americans, were the aboriginal inhabitants of Jamaica (the Arawakan word Xaymaca, meaning “isle of springs”).
		Edward Seaga of the JLP, a former finance minister, then formed a government.
		Patterson continued as prime minister, and he pledged to improve the island’s economy and lower its high murder rate.
	www.countriesquest.com /caribbean/jamaica/history.htm (707 words)

	Jamaica Talk - Jamaican Forums - Jamaica leadership future
		Edward Seaga is stepping down from the JLP and PJ Patterson will be stepping down from the PNP before the next general election.
		In the meantime, JLP out-going leader, Edward Seaga, showing exasperation with the Golding campaign over the actions of its lawyers in court yesterday, suggested that he might walk away from his 11th-hour involvement in the peace process.
		Things looking like Seaga may just decide to come back and take leadership of the JLP since they are in an ugly battle for sucession right now.
	www.everytingjamaican.com /jamaicatalk/printthread.php?t=3629 (872 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hon Edward Seaga’s love for Jamaica’s cultural heritage is etched in every corner of this meeting room in his New Kingston Office.
		Hon Edward Seaga regarding his involvement with the early development of Devon House.
		Seaga: It came to my attention that an American along with some Jamaican partners wanted to buy Devon House and demolish it to build a condominium structure like Abbey Court.
	www.devonhousejamaica.com /devonhousenewsarchivepg1.htm (231 words)

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