Author: Stafford Earle
Born: 1952
Bio: This guy is the real deal, has been there and done that.
Author, publisher, real estate developer, airplane pilot and airline owner, boat captain and ship owner, composer (inventor of reggaeton along with the late great Jamaican keyboardist Jackie Mittoo who coined the word "reggae"). 
Published works; "Basic Jamaica History" (ECI Press 1977). 
"Understanding third world politics and economics" co-authored  with the late  Dr. Carl Stone, published by Earle Publishers Ltd.
Author of the best selling instant book "The Grenada Massacre", Earle was first reporter on the scene, went in on a US C131 military  airplane. He photographed still warm dead bodies.
Ran for Jamaica Parliament in 1993 against P.J. Patterson who defeated him and became Prime Minister. Earle had a healthy lead until six weeks before election day when constituency borders were suddenly redrawn in Patterson's favor.
Has always ben involved in real estate industry in one way or another since a teenager. 
He is currently one of the most innovative property developers in the Caribbean.