Jamaica went again to the polls on April 10, for the third time in four years, to decide which party would form the government to lead the country into Independence. The picture of our first native governor general, Sir Clifford Campbell, opened up the set of pictures of government leaders, by then solidly black, running through the publication. Wray and Nephew, Cable & Wireless, Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Society, Jamaica Milk Products Ltd, and the big banana export companies, United Fruit Company, Elders & Fyffes? Where are these companies now, among the many, which advertised in the Handbook? The Daily Gleaner, Alcan, Barclays Bank, Bryden & Evelyn, J. At that time, the Handbook was compiled by the Jamaica Information Service, price 10 shillings. The Handbook was published annually between the 1880s and the 1970s, except for a few war years. I spent a few glorious hours at the National Library of Jamaica, successor to the West India Reference Library of the Institute of Jamaica, dipping into the Handbook of Jamaica for 1962 for snapshots of what the country was like in the year of its independence.
JAMAICA PRIME MINISTER IN 1950 TV
TV wouldn't be until the following year, 1963, the state-owned JBC TV. You could go to the audio archives of the only two radio stations then - RJR, established 1950, and JBC, established 1959.
Or skim the pages of several other periodicals, and there were several being published then, few of which have survived to now.
Thumb through the pages of The Daily Gleaner for that year when the paper was already 127 years old.
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