Jamaica alexander bustamante biography of william shakespeare

Bustamante attended primary schools in Hanover, Jamaica. As a young man, he traveled extensively and returned to Jamaica in and began to lead the struggle against colonial rule. He began to make his presence felt in Jamaica when the country was still a crown colony.

Born as William Alexander Clarke, he changed his name by deed poll in All stories of him being adopted by Spanish governor have been.

Under this system, the British-appointed governor had the power of veto, which he very often exercised against the will of the majority. Bustamante quickly realized that the social and economic ills that such a system entailed had to be fought through the mobilization of the working class. On September 8, , Bustamante was imprisoned at Up Park Camp for allegedly violating the Defence of the Realm Act and was released seventeen months later.

The first general election under universal adult suffrage was held in and the JLP won 22 of the 32 seats in the first House of Representatives, making him the unofficial leader of the party and Minister of Communications until the post of Chief Minister was created in He held this post until the defeat of the JLP in He had also been Mayor of Kingston from to Although originally a supporter of the Federation of the West Indies, Bustamante gradually became an opponent of the Union in the s.

The central argument has three strands: the idea of Cassius as a heroic figure; the role of Sir Alexander Bustamante as catalyst in the Jamaican movement for.

His rival and cousin, Prime Minister Norman Manley, called a referendum on the issue in That year he retired from active participation in public life and actual power was assumed by his deputy Donald Sangster. Bustamante was decorated for his public service in Jamaica in In , he received an honorary doctorate from Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

In , he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the West Indies. Sir Alexander Bustamante was married four times. Sir Alexander married his last wife, Gladys Longbridge on September 17, , with whom he had no children.