In 1961, Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley proposed the replacement of Empire Day with Labour Day, a celebration in commemoration of May 23, 1938, when Alexander Bustamante led a labour rebellion leading to Jamaican independence.

The Redskins defense was led by 6-foot-7 296-pound defensive tackle Dave Butz, who anchored the line, along with defensive ends Dexter Manley and Tony McGee, who each recorded 6. 5 sacks.

Their line was anchored by defensive ends Charles Mann, who led the team with nine and a half sacks and recovered a fumble, and Dexter Manley, who recorded eight and a half sacks.

** The People's National Party, led by Michael Manley, wins the Jamaican general election.

Most political parties in the various territories aligned themselves into one of two Federal political parties – the West Indies Federal Labour Party ( led by Grantley Adams of Barbados and Norman Manley of Jamaica ) and the Democratic Labour Party ( led by Manley's cousin, Sir Alexander Bustamante ).

His lyrics about love, redemption and natural beauty captivated audiences, and he gained headlines for negotiating truces between the two opposing Jamaican political parties ( at the One Love Concert ), led by Michael Manley ( PNP ) and Edward Seaga.

Manley, who may have been taken by surprise by the maneuver, led his party in a boycott of the elections, and so the Jamaica Labour Party won all seats in parliament against only marginal opposition in six of the sixty electoral constituencies.

It was Bustamante's decision that the JLP would not contest a by-election to the federal parliament that resulted in his rival and cousin, Premier Norman Manley, calling the referendum in 1961 that led to Jamaica's withdrawal and the break-up of the Federation.

In September 1814, when British forces invaded the United States de Rottenburg was put in command of three brigades ( led by Manley Power, Thomas Brisbane, and Frederick Philipse Robinson ) in the Lake Champlain campaign and the Battle of Plattsburgh.

Manley and the PNP supported the trade union movement, then led by Alexander Bustamante, while leading the demand for universal adult suffrage.

The party was organised by Sir Alexander Bustamante to counter the West Indies Federal Labour Party led by his cousin Norman Manley.

PNCA is led by Thomas Manley, an expert in Asian studies and an art collector.

The Michael Manley led PNP has always disavowed knowledge of the covert action that took the lives of the men and said it was purely a military operation that was later justified.

As a direct result of this act of state brutality, over 1, 400 persons were murdered in Jamaica between 1978-1980 when the Michael Manley led PNP was defeated by the opposition JLP led by Edward George Phillip SEAGA who ruled until 1989 when he lost the General elections.

The revision of her fame and status as an author began in the early decades of the 18th century and led to manifest defamations in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Manley became a scandalous female author, one of those whom some critics audaciously asserted did not deserve to be ever read again.

The People's National Party ( PNP ) is a social democratic and social liberal Jamaican political party, founded by Norman Manley in 1938.

Manley retired from politics in 1992, and was replaced as party leader by Percival Noel James Patterson.

In the December 6, 2008 edition of the Globe and Mail, Manley demanded Liberal leader Stéphane Dion step down so the party can find another leader before Christmas and to " rebuild the Liberal Party, rather than leading a coalition with the NDP.

Manley is regarded by some as being from the centre-right of the Liberal party, favouring fiscal conservatism, free trade, and friendly relations with the United States, although his budget included substantial program spending.

Observers interpreted that his departure of federal politics was due to his frustration at the stranglehold on the future leadership of the Liberal party by the then Minister of Finance, Paul Martin, and possibly because Chrétien had promoted John Manley to Deputy Prime Minister, which designated Manley as the preferred successor.

When in 1969 his predecessor as Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, launched his campaign for the Presidency of the PNP, he turned to P. J. Patterson, youngest of the highest-ranking segment of the party executive, to lead his campaign.

Despite her efforts to build support among women, minority groups and the party's left-wing, she began and ended the leadership contest well behind the overwhelming favourite, Paul Martin, whose supporters controlled the party machinery ; John Manley departed from the running before the vote.

On September 23, 2005, Manley left the party to join the Liberal Party of Canada.

He was released from prison in 1943 and founded the Jamaica Labour Party the same year, having previously been a member of the party founded by his cousin, Norman Manley, the People's National Party ( founded 1938 ).

Following the 2004 election, Harris was challenged for the leadership by Tom Manley, a prominent party activist from eastern Ontario.

This brought an end to his political career, as Manley was unable to make much headway against frontrunner Paul Martin, who not only had a large lead in polls but also controlled much of the party machinery.

When Suffrage came, Manley had to wait ten years and two terms before his party was elected to office.

The Manley, Brier, & Bennett party sent Manley and a companion, John Haney Rogers, south out of the valley for help.

In January 2005, the GPC Council appointed Manley one of three co-deputy leaders of the party, along with Lynette Tremblay and Andrew Lewis.

After the successful election, the party suffered from the awkward situation of the two most influential leaders ( Manley and Williams ) absent from the federal government, and holding a minority of seats from their respective territories Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

Thom Crowder, Doug Humphreys and Ben Manley were recalled from the City Council in a special election held on August 24, 2010.

Political unrest also played its part, with the 1972 election campaign of Michael Manley targeting the support of Jamaica's ghetto communities.

In the election of 1972, Manley defeated the unpopular incumbent Prime Minister, his cousin Hugh Shearer, running on the slogans " Better must come ", " Giving power to the people " and leading " a government of truth ".

On November 28, Manley announced his retirement from politics, remaining as a backbencher until the 2004 federal election.

Manley had been mentioned as a possible contender for the leadership of the Liberal Party after Stéphane Dion's resignation following the 2008 election, but on November 4, 2008, he announced that he would not be a candidate.

Chrétien advised that his friend be appointed as Minister of Industry before the election, replacing John Manley, and Tobin was easily elected in the riding of Bonavista — Trinity — Conception.

In November 2005, Manley won the nomination to stand as the Liberal Candidate in the next federal election.

* Steppin ' ( 1980 )-A documentary about Michael Manley on his tour in Jamaica, during election time.

In 1903, Sam's Rooms and Meals, now called the Manley Roadhouse, opened.

The title is a quotation from a similarly titled poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, slightly misquoting a poem by William Wordsworth called " My Heart Leaps Up ".

At the 1979 meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, Manley strongly pressed for the development of what was called a natural alliance between the Non-aligned movement and the Soviet Union to battle imperialism.

Manley Pope, author of an early English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd, associated the Coritani of the Roman writers with the magical race called the Coraniaid in the medieval Welsh tale Lludd and Llevelys.

He was a strong advocate of the Federation of the West Indies, established in 1958, but when Sir Alexander Bustamante declared that opposition Jamaica Labour Party would take Jamaica out of the Federation, Norman Manley, already renowned for his integrity and commitment to democracy, called a referendum, unprecedented in Jamaica, to let the people decide.

In the Canada-US Smart Border Declaration created in December of that year, then-Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley and United States Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge called for " a system to collaborate in identifying high risk goods while expediting the flow of low risk goods.

The climax came during his performance of Jammin ’ when he called both Manley and Seaga to the stage, and in a symbolic gesture, the three held up their hands together to signify their unity.