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@elonmuskque Hope

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@HumanityChad Wow may God bless them.

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Portmore builders:

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Key political champion: 👉 Hon. Anthony Spaulding, Minister of Housing under Michael Manley’s PNP government (1972–1976), who expanded and completed the early housing schemes.

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The Portmore Development Scheme was initiated and executed by:

The Central Housing Authority (CHA), which was merged into the Ministry of Housing;

Later evolved under the National Housing Corporation (NHC).

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Port Bustamante (now Kingston Container Terminal);

The Seprod, GraceKennedy, and Alcan plants.

The government wanted:

Affordable housing for the growing urban poor and middle class;

To decongest Kingston, which had severe housing shortages after 1951 hurricane

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Purpose and Vision

The vision was to create a “dormitory town” or planned suburban community for the rapidly expanding workforce of Kingston and Spanish Town — especially those employed in:

The industrial zones (Riverton, Hunts Bay, and later Seaview and Ferry);

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British and Jamaican engineering consultants (including firms like Kaiser Engineers and local agencies) carried out feasibility and design work.

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Key Figures:
Edward Seaga – then Minister of Finance and Planning (and previously Minister of Development and Welfare).
He was the chief architect of the new town concept for Portmore.

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Robert Lightbourne – as Minister of Trade and Industry, supported the industrial expansion that demanded nearby worker housing.

Town Planning Department (Government Town Planner: L. A. M. Richards) – provided the urban design layout and infrastructure planning.

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Did you know: The Birth of Portmore – 1960s Planning Era:
The idea and initial development of Portmore came in the mid-to-late 1960s, under the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government of Sir Donald Sangster (briefly) and later Hugh Shearer.#portmore #origins #Jamaica

Key Figures:

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When Michael Manley’s PNP government came to power in 1972, they expanded the welfare framework that Lightbourne had laid.

Specifically:
They took the contributory model of the NIS (deductions from employers and employees)
and applied it to housing — the basis of the NHT.

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did you know : Robert Lightbourne’s creation of the NIS was the legal, administrative, and conceptual foundation on which the NHT was built.

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@onenewsound boy ohh boy-so sad

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@OmarNewell We grow older daily - do we control the day, the hour the moment. Can you afford to pay for a patty the same way you did before? I give God thanks I can afford other things he has provided. Did you do any anysis as to why?