Who remembers Norman Washington Manley?
(Part I) published: Sunday | July 16, 2006 Arnold Bertram, Contributor ON TUESDAY last, the 113th anniversary of the birth of Norman Washington Manley passed without much fanfare. There was the usual ceremony put on by the state at his birthplace in Roxborough, Manchester. That apart, very few Jamaicans seem to have remembered the man who more than any other laid the foundations for the progress and development we now take for granted. A poll conducted by the Stone Organisation and published in the Jamaica Observer of Thursday, December 14, 2000, posed the following question, to 1,205 Jamaicans from 42 communities across the island: “Which Prime Minister has done most to improve the lot of the Jamaican people?” The view of respondents was that Norman Manley had done the least. Nothing speaks more eloquently as to the profound ignorance that exists of this man’s life and work. A HARD UPBRINGING Who was Norman Manley, and in what kind of environment was he nurtured? Within his own party
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