Edward Seaga - Definition and Overview

The Right Honourable Edward Philip George Seaga (born May 28, 1930) was Prime Minister of Jamaica for the Jamaica Labour Party from 1980 to 1989, and served as leader of the opposition 1989 to January 2005.

Seaga entered politics as a member of the appointed Legislative Council, the upper house of the pre-independence legislature in 1959. He made his mark in one of his first speeches as a legislator on the theme of 'The Haves and Have Nots'. In the 1960s and 1970s he served as minister of development and welfare in the government of Alexander Bustamante and as minister of finance under Hugh Shearer. He became leader of the JLP in 1974, after becoming MP for Western Kingston in 1962.

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