Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trained at Jamaica's United Theological College and London University, Potter was pastor of a Methodist church in Haiti until 1954, when he joined the W.C.C.'s youth department. Haiti helped to mold his view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society...
...Jamaica, like most of the Caribbean islands, is beset by an unholy trinity of poverty, malnutrition and unemployment. The islands' economies are often tied to single crops-sugar and bananas -that fetch low prices on world markets. They cannot mechanize agriculture to cut costs and raise incomes because that would only aggravate unemployment, which runs as high as 25% in Jamaica. The result is low productivity and per capita incomes that range from about $65 a year in Haiti to $555 in Jamaica, one of the more prosperous of the Caribbean islands...
Manley came to power proclaiming that "a man without a job is a man without rights," and he runs the risk of seeing his followers among Jamaica's poor turn against him unless he is able to fulfill some of the expectations he has aroused. The opposition Labor Party is in disarray; Manley's party controls 37 of 53 seats in the House. Even so, Manley has made only a promising start. He has launched several crash public-works programs, including new sidewalks for Kingston, and has appealed to Jamaica's own economists to find original solutions...
...heroes: "Dad, Martin Luther King and Harold Laski." Manley returned to the island in 1952, became a labor negotiator, and did not run for Parliament until 1967. Though Manley today is "looking outward" to Third World nations (including Cuba), he still has his mind set on launching Jamaica firmly into the technological age. "I think that the moment a nation becomes a nation," he says, "is the moment when it understands that to walk from here to there means that every man's foot has to move...
...Bailey was a handsome Irishman named Maurice O'Regan, 33, charged with forging three checks to a total of $34,400. Maurice had been butler, chauffeur, valet, handyman and cook to Sir Francis Henry Grenville Peek, 56, fourth baronet of Rousdon. But with raven-haired, Jamaica-born Lady Caroline Peek, 37, the testimony revealed, Maurice's services had gone considerably further...