Ja: Lady Bustamanted hospitalized
THE MOST Honourable Lady Gladys Bustamante, 91-year-old widow of Sir Alexander Bustamante, National Hero and Jamaica's first prime minister, was on Saturday hospitalised at the Tony Thwaites wing of the University Hospital of the West Indies, Mona, St. Andrew
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Lady Bustamante, who will be 92 on March 6, is the former Gladys Longbridge of Pearson Ridge, Westmoreland. With Alexander Bustamante, she was at the forefront of the 1938 labour uprisings out of which the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) was formed. Alongside Sir Bustamante, she made significant contributions to the development of trade unionism and politics in Jamaica.
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