By Calvin G. Brown
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, December 23, 2025 - Social and political commentator O. Dave Allen has done Jamaica a profound service by directing our attention back to Alexander Bedward—not the cartoonish "flying lunatic" of popular memory, but the formidable anti-colonial leader who commanded 30,000 followers across 125 congregations spanning Jamaica, Cuba, and Central America.

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