Wtf ???

[Rudi]

Also, the donor should be named.

[Don1]

Is OT Fairclough party!

NW Manley was NOT a founder, just the first leader.

Dat party Built by Drumblair & 189 Old Hope Road Syndicate Inc....den afta a while dem puick out di JLP fi mek dem duh dem tings

6 ah one....

[Mosiah]

Of course!

[Muadib]

Built by JC ?

[Don1]

The Syndicate wi kall dem

[Willi]

OT did guh JC too?

[Don1]

OT did guh JC too?

Not to my knowledge. OT was a key organizer. But it's the self-government movement that led to first political parties then associated labor unions. The discussions re self-government started with Manley & the Drumblair Movement....meetings at his house discussing political/social reform attended by the intelligensia.

That was later backed up by seedless grapers from NYC...Jamaica Progressive League who sent delegates, money & farrin experience to the movement

While OT was important and may have formally registered the party...NW was ALWAYS the real power

IT WAS on the verandahs of Drumblair in 1937 that the ideas for the publication of the Public Opinion took shape. This weekly newspaper which first appeared in February 1937, consciously set out to express Jamaica's cultural nationalism and the views of an increasing number of Jamaicans who wanted to understand the social, economic and political challenges which faced the country and to find progressive solutions.

That same year, Norman Manley, then a private citizen, launched Jamaica Welfare, a rural community development process which became a prototype for the developing world. To drive this process, he inspired a remarkable group of pioneers, including Leila Tomlinson, Edie Burke, Jimmy Kirlew, Reggie Fletcher, Sybil Francis, Eddie Fagan, Pansy Hart, Ted Hanson, Arthur Carney, Cecil Harriott, Leopold Pinnock and Stella Gregory.

SUCCESS OF JAMAICA WELFARE

For the post of executive director, he recruited a 36-year-old businessman, D.T.M. Girvan. One indicator of the success of Jamaica Welfare is that by 1948, after just 11 years of existence, "it had activities in 236 villages, with 77 village communities, 51 community councils and 346 groups. There were 1,180 organised groups in all, including 57 handicraft groups and 261 cooperatives; 185 savings unions, 30 buying clubs, 42 poultry groups and 185 self-help groups were also functioning."

It was to Drumblair that O.T. Fairclough came with the request that Manley provide leadership for a political party, and it was out of these initial discussions that the process began which culminated in the launching of the People's National Party (PNP) in 1938. Earlier that year the labour rebellion had swept the island and it was after a night's deep meditation at Drumblair that Norman Manley with his wife Edna's insistence unreservedly committed himself to the task of nation building.

dis..The figerprints of The 189 Old Hope Rd Syndicate are all ova...Hedley Jacobs, the infamous Wills Isaacs, N Nethersole etc etc

The Movement Towards Political Organization

Meanwhile, his cousin, the renowned Oxford-educated Norman Manley from Roxborough, Manchester, who had mounted platforms to speak to workers upset about Bustamante's incarceration and attempted to keep the peace while he negotiated Bustamante's May release from jail, began to speak of the need for a political movement alongside the growing trade union one. This Manley believed was essential in order for Jamaica to achieve self-determination for Jamaicans.

At a press conference in May, the tall, distinguished barrister announced that a number of committees were to be formed to propose solutions to debate ideas for Jamaica's development. It was these committees, he said, which would serve as the root of a genuine labour party.

In this move towards national political organization Manley picked up on sentiments expressed as early as a decade before by skilled Jamaican orator Marcus Garvey who had attempted in his stirring public speeches and his US-based organization of the United Negro Improvement Association to better the condition of negroes everywhere.

The events of 1938 were so monumentous that it was felt that a national political party had a better chance of survival as a result of the increased national awareness.

Manley did not act alone. Bustamante supported his efforts, but at that time was himself consumed with the organization of the BITU. O.T. Fairclough, a Jamaican who had managed a bank in Haiti and returned to his homeland to find the only job he could get was as an accountant at the Water Commission, became heavily involved impressing upon Norman the need for him to lead a political party.

There was also the "Public Opinion," a weekly paper launched in 1937 by men such as Jamaica College history teacher Hedley Powell Jacobs to put forward views on the question of self-government. Jacobs was also a member of the National Reform Association (a group that began agitating for self-government in March 1938 and is considered ideologically to be a forerunner of the PNP) along with others such as Ken Hill and Noel "Crab" Nethersole.

Florizel Glasspole (who eventually became Governor General 1973-1991) and future MP Wills O. Isaacs were also heavily involved. Of course there was also Norman's wife, renowned artist Edna Manley, whose art reflected ideals of self-determination. She supported him in his actions but maintained that no matter how many urged her husband to take up political leadership the final decision would eventually be his and his alone.


The launching of the PNP


H.P. Jacobs
BY AUGUST 1938 Fairclough had made a name for himself travelling all over the island to recruit members such as businessmen, lawyers and members from established organizations such as the Jamaica Union of Teachers (JUT) and the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS).

A set of some 50 delegates were eventually selected and they appointed a steering committee of seven that included Norman Manley as chairman, accountant O. T. Fairclough as secretary, teacher H.P. Jacobs, lawyer N.N. Nethersole, Rev. O. G. Penso, architectural draftsman W. G. MacFarlane and Howard F. Cooke, a JUT representative (and the present Governor-General of Jamaica, the only member of that committee still alive).

He remembers the excitement of the time and the almost missionary urge of wanting to effect change. The steering committee's task was to draft a founding constitution and prepare the party's formal launch slated for September 18, 1938 at the landmark Ward Theatre in downtown Kingston.

[Willi]

No, den did haffi beg NWM to lead it. Back den, he was on retainer for Jam Banana Producers for 1,000 pounds a year...BIG money back den!

Dat deh breed ah money did hard fi left. Him had wuz to think about it. LoL

[Don1]

What I'm saying is dat Brown Man Time run di cut. Nutten wudden gwaan too tuff fi overturn Babylon Shitstem if dem kinda man deh neva step up fi deal wid it.

Babylon nuh like siddung wid Black man...dat disturb dem cosmic

Ongly ting wudda leff ah one revolution fi kill off Babylon elements

[Bricktop]

story come to bump...chiney man gi money to individual mp with the understanding it was to be turned over to the party...Paul Burke and Omar Davies a spill the beans...lol...

[Assasin]

if Trafigura was tried then this wouldn't happen. Same thing, and I bet some of the same people involved too.

[Rudi]

I told you so. That de breed a money could only come from the man dem with the Yuan currency. Same so them operate in Africa. The real question is what were they buying?

[Peter R]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8rClH-Jbno

[Assasin]

them get it already. Port, Hotel land and Bauxite.

[Muadib]

Dem nuh vote demself in...

Well done indeed !