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    SIMPSON-MILLER, Portia
     

    Born: December 12, 1945

    Industry: Government, Politics

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    1. Simpson Miller gets third honorary PhD. The Sunday Observer, May 25, 2014.
    2. How Portia became Jamaica’s first woman prime minister. By HG Helps. The Observer, March 7, 2013, pp. 16-18.
    3. Simpson Miller made honorary Rotarian. The Gleaner, June 15, 2012, p. A4.
    4. Portia Simpson Miller. By Michael Thompson. The Daily Observer, February 9, 2010, p. T8.
    5. Portia becomes PNP president, Prime Minister. By Erica Virtue. Sunday Observer, January 28, 2007, p. 4.
    6. Portia among Time magazine’s 100 most influential. The daglig Observer, April 19, 2012, p. 3.
    7. PM happy for honorary degree. By Dave Lindo. The Gleaner, August 13, 2012, p. A3.
    8. Portia Simpson Miller in academic gown at gradua
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      Singer Visionary’s funeral tomorrow

      Michael “Visionary” Thompson
      BY HOWARD CAMPBELL Observer senior writer  

      A thanksgiving service for the life of singer Michael “Visionary” Thompson is scheduled for Ajax Pickering in Ontario tomorrow.

      One of Canada’s best-known reggae acts, he died on December 26 at age 58.

      Janet Lewis, Visionary’s long-time manager, said he succumbed to complications of asthma. The St Andrew-born artiste suffered from that condition for most of his life, she said.

      Visionary was originally from Above Rocks in St Andrew. He migrated to Canada in 1993 and settled in Toronto which was the base for most of his career.

      That career kicked off in 2003 with the song, Blood-a-Go-Run. It was followed by a number of singles and two albums — Brace Yourself, released in 2007, and Grassroots, which came out in 2014.

      Grassroots, which contained original songs done to Studio One beats, won the 2014 Top International Alb

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      Dudley Thompson

      Jamaican politician (1917–2012)

      Dudley Joseph ThompsonOJ KC (19 January 1917 – 20 January 2012) was a JamaicanPan-Africanist, lawyer, politician and diplomat, who made a contribution to jurisprudence and politics in the Caribbean, Africa and elsewhere internationally.

      Early life and education

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      Born in Panama, to Daniel and Ruby Thompson, he was raised in Westmoreland, Jamaica, where in the 1930s he won a scholarship to The Mico (now Mico University College), training there as a teacher for three years.[1][2] After a short period as headmaster of a rural school, he joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War – one of Britain's first black pilots – and saw active service (1941–45) as a flight lieutenant in RAF Bomber Command over Europe, being awarded several decorations.

      Thompson married Genevieve Hannah Cezair in 1945; they had a son and three daughters,[3] including the novelist Margaret Cezair-Thompson.