BUSTAMENTE of JAMAICA
"LTAD William Alexander Bustamente, Jamaica’s Chief Minister, been born 700 instead of 70. years ago, there could not have been more. legend and lore about him than has been put into circulation by travel-writers and itinerant journalists,’ says A. E. T. Henry at the start of a BBC personal portrait of Mr. Bustamente now going the rounds of National stations of the NZBS: Mr. Henry, a Jamaican journalist living in
London, says that this legend and lore is partly the invention of» Mr. Bustamente himself, for he has a vivid imagination and loves to spin a yarn. Even when Mr. Henry has disposed of some of the more persistent myths, Jamaica’s| Chief Minister remains a picturesque figure. Born in Jamaica as William Alexander Clarke, of peasant stock and mixed European and African descent, he emigrated as a young man and spent many
years in Latin America. The second phase of his life as a repatriate rebel began in the middle 1930s when, as a man in his 2arly fifties, he returned to Jamaica and soon became an inveterate writer of letters to the Press, "always attacking something or somebody." Most of them were written on behalf of | the common people, the wage-earner and the unemployed, Mr. Henry goes on to describe how Mr. Bustamente emerged as an organiser of labour, was interned during the war, won the. first general election under the constitution of 1944 with his Jamaican’ Labour Party, and eventually, under the advanced constitution, became the island's first Chief Minister. Mr. Henry’s talk will be heard next from 2YC on Friday; January 28, ‘at 10.0 p.m,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 23
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271BUSTAMENTE of JAMAICA New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 23
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