In 1970, Michael Manley took over the leadership of the PNP when he was elected to that position, following his father’s resignation. It was during that strike that the workers dubbed him “Joshua”, a nickname that many PNP supporters still fondly use. Among the most often retold events in Michael Manley’s career, as a trade unionist was the 97-day strike, which he led at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation in 1964. In two years he was made Island Supervisor and First Vice-President of the Union. He increasingly became involved in trade union and political activity while he continued his work with the Public Opinion, until August 1953 when he accepted the post of Sugar Supervisor for the NWU. Manley began to handle union negotiations. In 1952 the National Workers’ Union (NWU), an affiliate of the PNP, was formed and Mr. It was at this time that he was formally introduced to the local political sphere when he was elected to the National Executive Council of the People’s National Party (PNP), which was founded by his father. In 1952 Manley returned to Jamaica as Associate Editor of the Public Opinion, where he had worked before. It was during his student years in London that Manley became actively involved in politics, having started as a student organizer and founding member of the West Indies Students’ Union. He later married four other times to Thelma Verity, Barbara Lewars, Beverley Anderson and Glynn Ewart. In 1946 he married for the first time to Jacqueline Kamellardski. He completed his bachelor and postgraduate degrees while in England and continued his journalistic work with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). That same year Manley left Jamaica, this time to study at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. After his service in the Air Force Manley returned to Jamaica and had his first introduction to journalism as a sub-editor with the Public Opinion newspaper. In September 1943, Manley left Jamaica to study at McGill University in Canada but two weeks later volunteered to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. Andrew Kindergarten School in Kingston and later went on to the Munro and Dickenson College. Young Manley started his education at the St. Born to National Hero Norman Washington Manley and his wife, Edna Manley, Michael had one other sibling, his brother Douglas. The life of this charismatic Jamaican leader began on Decemin Kingston, Jamaica. Industry: Politics Government Prime Minister