Hector Wynter

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Hector Lincoln Wynter , OJ , (born July 27, 1926 in Camagüey , Cuba , † December 31, 2002 in Mona , Jamaica ) was a Jamaican journalist, diplomat and politician with the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP).

Life

Hector Wynter was born on July 27, 1926, the son of the tailor Percival Wynter and his wife Lola Maud Reid-Wynter. He attended St. Simon's College and Wolmer's Boys' School before studying in Havana and at the University of Oxford . In 1948 he received a Rhodes scholarship . On his return to Jamaica, he taught Spanish at Calabar High School, a prestigious high school in Kingston . Since 1955 he worked at the University of the West Indies (UWI), u. a. as a lecturer in adult education and as director of the Extra-Mural Studies department (“Studies outside the walls”), d. H. the university's off-campus educational program.

From 1962 to 1963 he was a member of the first Jamaican Senate after the country's independence. From 1963 he was the first Jamaican high commissioner in Trinidad and Tobago . Wynter was parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1965 and 1967, then served as Minister of State in the Ministry of Education from 1967 to 1969 and in the Ministry of Youth from 1969 to 1972. In the Jamaica Labor Party, he held the post of chairman from 1970 to 1972.

Wynter was Jamaica's Permanent Representative to UNESCO and from 1970 to 1976 and from 1981 to 1985 a member of the Executive Council of UNESCO. From 1974 to 1976 he was chairman of this body.

He became Executive Editor at The Gleaner in 1974 , then Editor-in-Chief of Jamaica's most traditional newspaper in 1976. He was editor-in-chief of Gleaner during the politically turbulent times in Jamaica in the 1970s and came into confrontation with the ruling People's National Party , which was pro-socialist at the time , especially when Prime Minister Michael Manley declared a state of emergency and the media from June 1976 special Political reporting requirements were imposed.

In the 1980s he was awarded the Order of Jamaica .

Wynter was married and had six children. After a traffic accident on December 27, 2002, he was brought to the UWI University Hospital in Mona, where he succumbed to his injuries a few days later.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jamaica Gleaner of January 1, 2003: Wynter succumbs to crash injuries ( Memento of December 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Art. Hector Lincoln Wynter . In: Who's who in the world , 2000 edition. Marquis, New Providence 1999, ISBN 0-8379-1123-0 .
  3. ↑ JamaicaObserver.com: Hector Wynter dies from accident injuries ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ UNESCO.org - Jamaica . Retrieved April 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wynter, Hector
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wynter, Hector Lincoln (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican politician (JLP), journalist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Camaguey , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2002
Place of death Mona , Jamaica