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Seaga, Edward P. G

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Personal name headingSeaga, Edward P. G.
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Associated countryJamaica
Birth date1930-05-28
Death date2019-05-28
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Place of deathMiami (Fla.)
Field of activityJamaica--Politics and government Sound recording industry
AffiliationJamaica Labour Party
West Indies Records Ltd.
Profession or occupationPoliticians Authors Sound recording executives and producers
Found inHis The first 100 days, 1981: p. i (Hon. Edward P. G. Seaga, prime minister of Jamaica)
Institutional improvements for development planning, 2006: t.p. (The Most Hon. Edward Seaga ON, PC)
Washington post WWW site, viewed May 29, 2019 (Edward Seaga, a Jamaican record producer turned prime minister who forged closer ties to the United States and promoted austere, free-market economic policies while in office from 1980 to 1989, died May 28 [2019], on his 89th birthday. Mr. Seaga was being treated for cancer at a hospital in Miami. Mr. Seaga remained Labor's leader until 2005. Edward Philip George Seaga was born in Boston on May 28, 1930. Before entering politics, Mr. Seaga was a major record producer who operated West Indies Records Ltd., which helped introduce ska to the world. At 29, he was appointed to Jamaica's upper legislative house by Alexander Bustamante, the Labor Party founder and Jamaica's first prime minister)
Associated languageeng