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Shearer As It Lay in State Inside the Vere Technical High SHEARER School Auditorium in the Parish on July 14 National Library of Jamaica �J�aicaobserve�corn If/ ,• I�• 1:*,11 # ./ I I , THESuNDAY OBSERVER ' July 1'8, 20tl4 'page' 3 (,.a·.·... ... ","'.· - · · · · · · · " ' . ..·.·. � . ) ... ·.·�·, , .. '. ·, ,· ••. Their take on HUGH Students from a number of Clarendon schools queue to view the body of late prime minister Hugh Shearer as it lay in State inside the Vere Technical High SHEARER School auditorium in the parish on July 14. Following are some of the views expressed by persons, mostly Clarendonians, who attended the first State viewing of Hugh Shearer's body inside the Vere Technical High School auditorium in Clarendon on July 14. Olive Lawrence, Rocky Point resident: Hailed Shearer for being instrumental in the establishment of a fund to care for the spouses and children of fishermen who were lost at sea in 1993. "Mi have to come today because Mr Shearer is a nice man. Him take care of me when my baby's father drown. Him was the only person who come help me." Donna Henry, a mother of two who also lost her baby's father at sea: "Me love Mr Shearer and I feel sad seh him dead. Mi son seh to me, 'Daddy' (the name given to Shearer by the Rocky Point The State Funeral for community) gone, how we going to manage?" The Most Honourable Hugh Lawson Shearer will be held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sally Porteous, deputy mayor of Mandeville: "I think the turn-out North Street, Kingston today is significant of how people on Sunday, July 18, 2004 felt about Mr Shearer. It is very nice to see everybody coming out The service will begin at 2.00 p.m. • Guests are asked to be seated by 1:15 p.m. to pay their respects." Interment will be at the National Heroes Park Nathan Thompson, 17, student at N Bustamante High School: "I came PROCESSION ROUTE NATIONAL HEROES PARK to represent my school and to let NAnONI\L Mr Shearer know that we IUlltOCS PARX CMUW.IIJJUC appreciate his work. He was a llk"pubi1CC8n "n the in1crn�JU rrnm u '�<'reert 011 the n�Jrtbern sKic VJD•;o SCREF.N great leader, which is the most of the park. II important thing to know about him." Selliatia Thompson, 12, from Charlton Primary School: "I am here to show Mr Shearer my respect. My teacher told me that he was a prime minister." Genny Williams, 54: "I am here because I wanted tv view the late prime minister and to give my respect for his good work during years as prime minister." SOI1Ill GAT6 r Folks, 84: "I had to Sylveste 1' come fi see this man. He do some good. When he was prime minister he did a lot of good for the young • · Jamaica lnforr.rialion'SerViCe \liS) people dem." . - . � . • I Jl & . .I WWW.Jamaicaobserver.com .jamai • Page 4 THE SUNDAY OBSERVER July 18, 2004 . www cao:bserver.com THE SUNDAY OBSERVER July 18, 2004 Page 5 I I Ho him in good stead as he led Jamaica's international trade negotiations and when he returned to the foreign ministry during the 80s. He soon won and retained to the end the esteem and his is the first occasion that a regard of his foreign counterparts, being chosen as chairman of joint session of the Senate and Workers' ri central ghts to Shearer's life the ACP group at critical stages of negotiations with Europe. House of Representatives has In this House, he was a formidable debater. Not for him the accomplishments in his years of service, in producing the newspaper. Such were Michael Norman Manley. ever been held to pay tribute to pieces of labour legislation ever to flights of oratorical fancy, but grounded in the force of his T others have done so and many more will. the circumstances in It was their advocacy and which Hugh negotiating one of our own. have come to this honourable House, convictions and his capacity of persuasive eloquence, his Indeed, the Government of Jamaica Lawson Shearer began a half-century of skills that raised the status of the trade Who better to establish this and the programme since its presentations always commanded deserving attention and due commissioned a biography which public service. unions to that of the third point in the precedent than the Most Hon Hugh inception has brought monumental respect. He was at his most passionate when pleading the cause -a­ happily was completed prior to his This ambitious and focused young triangle of governance - the public sector, Lawson Shearer who, in over half benefits to the workers of Jamaica. of the poor and the disadvantaged. passing and which met with his man was the product of a humble home the private sector and the trade unions. century of public life, has served the It was during his tenure that the He was a convincing advocate for all those who contributed to enthusiastic approval. I wish to indicate in rural Jamaica. In an era when home The enormous benefits he won people of Jamaica as labour leader for award of Jamaican National Honours the service of Parliament - clerks, orderlies, hansard writers, and just a few of the unique aspects of his school and excellence, councillor, member of church worked in clos unionised workers are well documented. was initiated to replace previous par � drivers to parliamentarians. He could change periods �f life which illustrate the characteristics partnership to inculcate the What needs to be given parliament, cabinet minister and positive equal prominence British National Honours, which he legislative tensions into resounding peals of laughter by h1s that made him the exceptional individual values and attitudes associated is his insistence prime minister. with the on discipline and integrity referred to as an anachronism, timely humour and infectious smile. He was resolute and yet that he was. best of rural life - honesty, integrity at Since his passing, the many tributes and the workplace, making sure that commenting that he could not see always gracious. He had no grudge to anyone and in return he As we look back at our nation's industry - Hugh �hearer from his colleagues, constituents, and a learned these workers honoured agreements negotiated how, at a time when there was no earned the respect and admiration of all who served with him, on h history we recognise that the failure of lessons well. wide cross-section of t e Jamaican with their employers. longer a British Empire, Jamaicans both sides of the aisle. British colonial policy created the The Jamaica in which Shearer people have served to convey the true served He himself provided a shining example could be receiving such awards as Throughout his entire career, whether he worked on the conditions that made 1938 inevitable. his apprenticeship measure of the man, the height of his in the union of this integrity and discipline he sought to "Knights of the British Empire and stage of the union movement or in the corridors of political In three weeks of militant action, the movement was predominantly rural ideals, the breadth of his sympathy, the and inculcate, as every employer knew that "Members of the British Empire". power, he employed his persuasive powers in the cause of �he working people brought the colonial poor. A depth of his convictions and the length commitment to raise living Hugh Shearer did not have to sign a The firm proposal for a Caribbean rights of workers - a mission that was central to his hfe. administration to its knees and created standards of . of his patience. In addition to these well­ workers could only mean written agreement. A handshake was Court as the final Appellate Body was However strong his views on any issue, he had a g1ft for the institutions which laid the long hours deserved encomiums, this supreme of explaining and winning enough. His word was his bond. conceived at a meeting of regional approaching every discussion or negotiation, however foundations of modern Jamaica. legislative body of our land has the consensus, facing the hostility of the Shearer, over the years, had been an heads over which he presided in 1970. contentious, with an admirable level of courtesy, respect and History records the dominating responsibility to record for posterity, employer class and the wrath of the influential voice in the executive of the As a senator, he was Jamaica's camaraderie on both sides of the negotiating table or the presence of National Heroes our appreciation of a colleague, a friend, Sir colonial authorities. Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) the affiliate of first voice in the international arena political fence. He recognised that whatever our political views Alexander Bustamante and Norman an elder statesman and, above all, a fine The apprenticeship provided him with the SITU which he led following after independence when he was we were all united by a genuine wish to improve the quality of Washington Manley. human being. invaluable insights into the strengths Bustamante's full involvement in SHEARER... presided over a period of exceptional selected to deliver Jamaica's policy life of the Jamaican people. Only the most discerning May I remind this distinguished and weaknesses of the people whom he government. But he was a reluctant growthin the Jamaican economy addresses at the United Nations Like all good leaders, he invested considerable time in contemporary observers would chamber that this is not the first have would seek to represent, as well as with participant in representational politics. General Assembly. It was there he nurturing the next generation, and many of the current taken notice of a 17-year old occasion on which the members of the graduate of the oligarchy with which he would have Yet, when in 1955 his party asked him to contest one of the most proposed that the world should identify an International Year for leaders in the trade union movement are the beneficiaries of St Simons College who, on legislature have honoured this his own to contend.
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