EXTRACT OF LETTER ON JAMAICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000301250001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Country: Jamaica (B.W.I.)
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Subject: Extract of Letter fr Nymplow
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Date of Info.: 9 April 1953
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The Farmers' Party
1. A new political party has been formed and is called The Farmers'
Party. This has sprung from the Farmers' Federation, comprising
independent farmers throughout the Island.. The Farmers' Party
intends to nominate candidates in all the constituencies in the
fobthcoming elections which will take place in 1951+, and their
leader, the Hon. R.L.M. Kirkwood, Chairman of the Sugar Manufac-
turers Association, expects to secure at least 20 out of the 32
seats in the House of Representatives. Although we think that
this is on the optimistic side, it is certain that this new party
will cause a considerable splitting of votes and will tend to
weaken the ranks of both the P.N.P. and the J.L.P. Needless to
say, these two latter parties are fighting tooth and nail to
suppress the new party.
2. The Jamaica Labor Party suffered a tragic setback with the recent
death of the Hon. Sir Harold Allan, Minister of Finance, who was
the mainstay of the Labor Party, and Mr. Bustamante's most ef-
ficient Minister.
Mr. Joseph Malcolm, former Minister for Education, and the sitting
M.H.R. for Eastern Hanover, who has been absent from the House of
Representatives for over one year, serving a prison term for fraud,
has now returned to the House of Representatives and was given a
triumphant welcome by members of the Jamaica Labor Party. All
decent-thinking Jamaicans look upon his re-entry into the House as
a disgrace to the political life of the country, which is becoming
more corrupt every day.
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