Today we go to the poll to elect our 8th Prime Minister. Who will it be? By the end of the day all will be revealed. Today, we take a look at the past leaders of our country and reveal some little known facts about them.

The late Hon. Norman Washington Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. He served as the colony's Chief Minister from 1955 to 1959, and as Premier from 1959 to 1962. With his cousin, Sir Alexander Bustamante, Manley was an advocate of the universal suffrage that was granted to Jamaica in 1944. A National Hero, he was a statesman and a Rhodes Scholar.

He founded the left-wing People's National Party, which was later tied to the Trade Union Congress and the National Workers' Union.

Did u Know...?

For coffee drinkers, coffee is to be had black but Norman Manley preferred his with condensed milk.

He was quite the 'word spinner', and when he announced his resignation on his 75th birthday in 1968, he said, "I am convinced, deeply convinced, that the role of this generation is to proceed to the social and economic reform of Jamaica. It is to conceive a society based on principles of equality, and to remove the duality that splits us so profoundly, and to multiply the points of identification between man and nation, so, slowly, and I suppose it will take another 30 years at least, we can begin to think and feel and live as one people, making one national group."

He was very well-rounded; a politician, barrister and a sportsman. Though many knew of him being the recorder holder of the 100 metre from 1911 to about 1950, many do not know that he played cricket, boxing and football.

- Keisha Shakespeare-Blackmore