5000 Jamaican dollar note & bill

5000 Jamaican dollar the front is Hugh Lawson Shearer

Rt. Honourable Hugh Lawson Shearer ON, PC, OJ, LLD (Hon) (May 18, 1923- July 5, 2004)

Mr. Hugh Shearer was prime minister of Jamaica during the period April 11, 1967 to March 2, 1972. He was born in the village of Martha Brae near Falmouth Trelawny and attended the Falmouth Primary School and St. Simon’s College in Kingston. He entered representational politics in 1947 (KSAC) and served as Member of Parliament for West Kingston, 1955-59, and later for South Eastern Clarendon, 1967-93. He served also as Senator in the intervening years.

Mr. Shearer was an outstanding Trade Unionist and was appointed Assistant General Secretary of the Bustamante Industrial Trades Union (BITU) in 1947, its Island Supervisor in 1953, Vice-President in 1969 and President-General in 1977. He was elected Chairman of the Joint Trade Unions Research Centre in 1992. Two national honours were conferred on him during his lifetime: The Order of Jamaica in 1990 and The Order of the Nation in 2002.

Centre: Jamaican Nightingale (Minus polyglotto).

5000 Jamaican dollar the back is Students of Central Branch Primary School (Kingston)

representing the different races which make up the Jamaican population

The back of the note features the blossoms of the Frangipani (Plumeria rubra) and an aerial view of Highway 2000.