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Front: Nanny of the Maroons (1700-1734), Jamaica's only female national hero

Nanny was a leader of the Maroons. She possessed that fierce fighting spirit generally associated with the courage of men. She was particularly skilled in organizing the guerrilla warfare carried out by the Eastern Maroons to keep away the British troops who attempted to penetrate the mountains to overpower them. Like so many heroes of the pre Independence era, Nanny too met her untimely death in the hands of the British sometime around 1734.

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Front: Michael Norman Manley (1924-1997), Prime Minister of Jamaica 1972-1980 and 1989-1992

Michael Norman Manley, the second son of Norman Washington Manley, was a charismatic leader who became the head of the Jamaican People's National Party a few months before his father's death in 1969. In his first term as prime minister, Manley instituted a series of socio-economic reforms that yielded mixed success. In his second term, he had softened his socialist rhetoric, explicitly advocating a role for private enterprise. He stepped down as prime minister in 1992, citing health reasons.

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