It is to be noted that February 24, 1884 is a very significant date in the history of Jamaica, for the island’s first Prime Minister, Sir William Alexander Bustamante was born on that date.

When shaggy-haired William Alexander Bustamante tours the Jamaican countryside, field hands from the cane and banana plantations crowd around him singing a native song called We Will Follow ...

It was on July 8, 1943 that William Alexander Clarke Bustamante launched the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Bustamante was initially a member of the People’s National Party (PNP) that was launched ...

In a flash, the Hon. William Alexander Bustamante—Minister of Communications, pistol-toting boss of “Bustamante’s Industrial Trade Unions,” and leader of the majority Labor Party—was on ...

As George Eaton wrote in his book Alexander Bustamante and Modern Jamaica (page 172), Bustamante found out that his popularity in Jamaica was not exportable. Likewise with Buju Banton. I tried to ...