Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trinidad-Tobago Barbados, the Leeward and Windward Islands and Jamaica...
...said yes. The decision was a bitter surprise both for Britain, which saw federation as the best way to cut its colonies loose, and for the political leaders of the islands,* who had spent years negotiating a delicate balance of power between populous (1,700,000) Jamaica and its small, faraway neighbors...
...more sharply caught than Jamaican Premier Norman Manley, 68, who had staked his reputation on federation. He underestimated the strength of his old foe, Sir Alexander Bustamante, leader of Jamaica's Labor Party, which sees federation as a hindrance rather than a help to Jamaican aspirations. At 78, Busta sometimes rambles a bit, dreamily reliving his days of street-level anticolonialism. But his bright young organizers quickly saw that Manley's more-stability, more-investment arguments aimed at the middle class produced less vote power than songs, rhythm and sheer noise aimed at the 93% of Jamaicans...
...noes had it, the Colonial Office recalled Lord Hailes, federation Governor General, to London from a Scottish holiday to discuss salvaging the remaining chunks of the federation with Trinidad, as the kingpin. But at the same time, realistic Trinidadians began calculating the immense damage done by the cancellation of Jamaica's 43% contribution to the $9,000,000 federation budget...
...march right back to his machine. In 1956, with a small grant from the U.S. Government, Risch opened his first Epi-Hab plant in downtown Los Angeles, independent of the VA. Later, he inaugurated a second. In 1958, citizens adopting Risch's techniques started Epi-Habs in Jamaica, N.Y., and Phoenix, Ariz...