Why P.J Patterson Is Jamaica’s Superhero

The world may have known him as a Prime Minister, lawyer, or member of the Queen’s Council. For me, and many Jamaicans, P.JPatterson was the Jamaican Superhero who changed our lives.

Although his parents named him Percival Noel James Patterson, we just called him PJ. Somehow the world knew since the day he was born (April 10, 1935), that he was meant to change our lives forever. When he was only eight years old, he was already hoping that one day we would be an independent nation. A concept then that I never understood.