Denise eldemire shearer biography for kids
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Hugh Shearer
3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (1967-72)
Hugh Lawson ShearerONOJPC (18 May 1923 – 15 July 2004) was a Jamaican trade unionist and politician, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972. He was also Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade from 1980 to 1989, under Edward Seaga.
Early life and education
[edit]Shearer was born in Martha Brae, Trelawney, Jamaica, which is located just south of the parish capital of Falmouth. His father was James Shearer, a former soldier, and his mother was Esther Lindo, a dressmaker.[1]
Shearer attended St Simon's College after winning a parish scholarship to the school and later received an honorary LLD from Howard University School of Law.[2]
Trade union career
[edit]In 1941, he took a job on the staff of a weekly trade union newspaper, the Jamaican Worker. His first political promotion came in 1943, when Sir Alexander Bustamante, founder of the J
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A lifetime of commitment — The Denise Eldemire-Shearer story
When the Most Honourable Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer married Jamaica’s third prime minister the Most Honourable Hugh Shearer, she was already a giant in her own right.
The daughter of former Minister of Health, Dr Herbert Eldemire, the idea of serving others never seemed too far away.
Eldemire became a medical doctor like her father and by the time she caught the eye of the former prime minister, she had already embarked on significant work with one of the most vulnerable segments of Jamaican society, the aged.
In fact, Shearer, during his wedding reception at the Beverly Hills home of Mr and Mrs Arnold Foote, pointed out how fantastic a job the new Eldemire-Shearer had done as head of the National Council of the Aged.
Back in 2015, Minister of Education, Fayval Williams said Eldemire-Shearer’s story was “one of an unfailing commitment to the poor and most vulnerable in our society&rd
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Prof Denise Eldemire-Shearer championing the cause of seniors
If effervescence was a individ, it would be the beautiful Eldemire girl who married Hugh Shearer and has been championing causes for senior citizens in Jamaica.
Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer fryst vatten a medical doctor and the island’s resident ageing expert, who has spent decades fängslande, researching, listening, working and developing policy on behalf of Jamaica’s over-60-years cohort.
A dead ringer for former Gleaner Editor-in-Chief Wyvolyn Gager, Eldemire-Shearer says they are often mistaken in public as individuals engage either woman believing they are speaking to the other.
Born into the well-known political Eldemire family, representational politics was not for her, but she could not completely erase it from her DNA as she would later marry Jamaica’s third prime minister, Hugh Lawson Shearer, who she describes as a man of his word.
She confirmed that the “great friendship” her la