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Edward Seaga 40 Years of Service, Leadership & Vision ...already the most modern ice making factory in Jamaica - and expanding. ' Serving satisfied customers since 1990. · Bulk deliveries island wide. MATRIX ICE Company, Ltd. A. me�ber of the Ji\PJ/ Matrix Group of Compan.ies. Lot #1, Twickenham Parkt Spanish Town, St Catherine Phone 876/984-2392-3, 984-4016·7 Fax 876/984-4016 oun.ns Everything Nice, Ltd. Patterson Boulevard, Matrix Ice Old Harbour Bay, Pedro Cross, Whitehouse Beach, Kingston Depot Old Harbour Treasure Beach Westmoreland 3a Port Royal Street, Fishing Beach, Kingston 965-0490-1- 963-5151 St Catherine .. ORTY YEARS of '' public life offer an Fexperience which helps us to under­ stand the process of change. For me, the changing times have given me the opportunity to look back on successes and failures. This is a great learning experience, which teaches us what must be done to succeed. The formula for success is not a standard one but it does have one fixed element, which never varied in my own expe­ riences. Success depends on your team of helpmates whether public officers, political colleagues, very little can be accomplished alone. was very fortu­ I nate to have had the willing hands and thoughtful minds who helped me to succeed and stood with me in defeat. Politics is a hard taskmaster and particu­ larly difficult for one's family and friends. owe I both an immeasurable debt of gratitude." share my achievement I with them recognizing their invaluable assistance �,, which made the impossible possible. His Place and Purpose in the Place He likes to call ''Home'' PROFESSOR REX NETTLEFORD By Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies PIDLIP DWARDlike so many peopleGEORGE of substance, SEAGA, has almost fromday one of his 40-year pJlit­ The National Dance Theatre Company performing ical career attracted controversy. And, "Plantation Revelry'', 1968. (Photo: Maria Laycona) Elike many a famous writer, he is not short of "reli­ able enemies with whom he can pick regular staff that was dedicated to education for those newsworthy fights." For it is the news media persons who were unable to be part of the formal which have helped to fovest the feistiness and University programme. fighting spirit of Edward Seaga with insensitive and even demonic proportions. Understanding of Jamaican Culture I was not surprised, then, that on his election to· Another Dimension - The Scholar office, he brought to his portfolio a sharpened myself have known another dimension of this sense of the importance of Jamaican culture root­ I public figure who once insisted he was not into ed in the creative output of the people from 'popularity' but whose public lifehas contributed below. He spotted the power of the creative tal­ in no small or insignificant way to genuinely pop­ ent of sculptor and painter Mallica Reynolds, bet­ ular concerns. ter known as "Kapo"; and to his lasting credit he On my return in 1959 to UCWI as a Resident saved for Jamaica that invaluable collection of · Tutor in the Department of Extra Mural Studies, Kapo's works then owned by Larry Wirth of came upon, via the telephone, a young Stony Hill when it was up forsale to foreign pur­ ·I Harvard graduate named Edward Seaga, who I chasers. The collection remains today in all its learnt had decided not to continue his medical majesty in the National Gallery as part of the studies at the fledgling UCWI. He, however, nation's patrimony. turned out to be one of the most willing and He also recognized the tremendous potential effective part-time lecturers for the Extra Mural which lay in the newly emerging music industry, Department. His topic was "revival spirit where voices like Prince Buster and Desmond cults", the form of worship through which many Dekker through his many contacts with the music from the mass of the Jamaican population lived industry in North America, put ska and subse­ and had their being. Other than a handful of quently reggae on the map by opening up impor­ scholars like Edward Seaga, few invested it tant doors and providing the necessary exposure with the seriousness it clearly deserved. The which catapulted Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff and University, with a Philip Sherlock as a founding others like them into instant and, in some cases, father and social anthropology lecturer M.G. lasting fame. He shares, then, with Chris Smith as a caring student of the people from Blackwell, Clement Coxone-Dodd, Ken Khouri below, had to take the'topic seriously. and Duke Reid an iconic role in the development Mr Seaga could be called upon at very short of the Jamaican popular music/recording industry. notice to travel and lecture within rural Jamaica Personal contacts between us were furtherrein­ and fill in, in cases of emergency; and his er thu­ forced at the time of the formation of the National siasm in being a part of this new experience of Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica which he Adult Education was clearly the fuel that made Continued on Page 23 him a reliable member of the small Extra Mural 4 111111........................ .................................................. Achieveinents as Minister of Finan.cc in the 1960s a11d 1980s For thirteen of his forty years in Parliament, or one third of his par­ Jiamentary life,· Mr Seaga was in charge of the nation's finances. Here is how John Jackson-Financial Analyst a�sesses tho�e years. r many Jamaicans, and particularly for people of my generation who were just leaving chool, the were R sixties· an exciting . period. We ad just Independence, We h achieved were c ught of that event, a up in the wphmia looking a new There forward to Jamaica. WCJS a nationali.stic a ot of things fervou-:;mp l ' >.vere happenjng in the �m.intry Understanding of Need for our own Institutions ou!. ::nv mind about Mr. \\'bat stands in to !hat period of our his­ Seaga's cont:ribu::.ion tory was understanding of the need for us iris to have our O'Nli instit;1tions to respondto our :JWTI �0 :is to define ourselves needs and help nati n. tliis respP,ct record as a !r: his in systems and i.n.stitutions neces­ building the our emerging e onomy spe , I .. sary for c aks , believe. fo:· itscif. in this sontext :ha: '"'e m st view one It is u llie :nos'. lJlitiatives he 1 signilicmit policy .Jamaica\ Mortgage Bank .Jampro during - took the sixties the Jamaicanization '::'four financilll sector. Mr Seaga was Financ:': Minister from 1967 to 1972. At the his te u our jor time he began n re mo�t of ma . institutions - the financial i1: oart1c1tlar commercial '" - were fore gn banks and insurance comparues i with the owned. He used n:oral suasion in dealing foreign bai"lks and illmmmce companies to urge them to or a their to Jamaicans. divest al.I portbr. of equity 11Us move was ve-r; successful. This move not orJy nl1owed the country to benefit capital hut it also opened the from enhanced access to door to the deve!opn:ent of an indigenous financial with the of compa- sector, {ormation, Turn 24 tp Page He gave me every a.· support in the foundin.g of Life of Jamaica A Tribute by The modern Life of Jamaica Centre in New Kingston Hon. R. Danny Williams, O.J., C.D., J.P. S SOMEONE WHO BELIEVED promised to give me every and any support I in and supported the needed and between that time and June 1970 he .Jamaicanisation of the financial lived up to his commitment in every possible Asector in the 60's and 70's, it is a way. I can honestly say he made himself avail­ pleasure to commit to paper a able on numerous occasions throughout that time small slice of memory of the role that Mr Seaga when I had to call upon him for his assistance. played in that process. He would see me at 7:00 a.m. if that was the only All of this is set in the framework of that peri­ time he had available. He never once was too od. The 60's. As I recall most of our financial busy to see me. institutions were foreign owned. We did little for The crowning support that he gave me was ourselves. when he directed the .Jamaica Development Bank The Canadian Life Insurance Company that I to give us the underwriting of one half of our pub­ worked for printed even the envelopes in Canada lic issue when everyone else had turned us down and sent them to us. We did nothing for ourselves. (at home and abroad). We had previously We were simply branch offices for the foreign obtained one half of our underwriting from organisations. During t'1is time Mr Seaga cham­ Citizens and southern Bank of Atlanta, Georgia. pioned the call for us to Jamaicanise our financial The fact is that if we had not obtained this under­ institutions. writing the company would never have been I recall when in the mid 60's Mr Seaga along formed. I can truthfully say that although many with the Hon. G. Arthur Brown, Governor of the people gave me excellent support when forming Bank of Jamaica summoned me to the Ministry of Life of Jamaica Limited, Mr Seaga's support and Finance and cha! lenged me with the thought of commitment was probably the most significant. spearheading the Jamaicanisation of the life insur­ As I look back over this period of more than 30 ance industry. I recall telling them at the time that years I know that the action taken to Jamaicanise I shared their passion for what they had proposed the financial sector was in the best interest of this and indeed I had been thinking about it.
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