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In particular, Bramble interceded with the owners of the Wade plantation company, for the development of housing for their workers; initially just within some parcels of that company, then throughout
Montserrat, both the employers and their workers helped erecting new neighborhoods. This directly
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For the development of the tourism, in 1961, Bramble founded the
Montserrat Real State Company, which built about 100 buildings for the foreign tourism. This effectively boosted the national income, forging a new, positive character of the nation which lasted until the eruption of the Soufriere
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instead. They begot five children (P. Austin, Doris, Laurel, Howell, and Olga), of whom the oldest would get into politics as well. For supporting his large family, Bramble had forcibly to start further economic activities; he acquired a small boat and smuggled between the island nations of the
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Minister of Montserrat in 1960 after constitutional changes introduced ministerial government; by then the cotton production was in a decline, as the workers were rather emigrating to United Kingdom. Coping with this situation, he formulated an
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Canadian
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Montserrat, whose broad majority was illiterate; by 1969, he instead stated that by his administration all those children were already attending school.
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project, with three objectives: the diversification of the exploitation of the rich soil of the country for exporting regionally, the development of the industry of
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Bramble became a local leader, against the alleged economic oppression of the planter owners and the political rulers; reportedly, by then the agricultural
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reforms particularly for the poor people, as both his party and his trade union worked almost as a single entity.
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Originally, William Bramble had been unable to vote in Montserrat, never fulfilling the requirements of
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the government with the royal authorities it wasn't a practical problem for the national development.
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William Bramble died in 1988; he was the first national figure to have a
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had been named after him until it was destroyed by the 1997
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production almost without economic reward for the locals.
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202:Union and party leader
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102:William Henry Bramble
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321:National development
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764:B Osborne
752:J Osborne
286:pragmatic
175:Adventist
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381:Politics
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243:property
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168:Dominica
164:peddling
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