Patterson: DK was a master field marshal

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Patterson: DK was a master field marshal

D.K. Duncan, the former People’s National Party (PNP) member of parliament (MP) and government minister, was a “master field marshal”, according to former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. Patterson, who was a contemporary of Duncan’s, remembered him...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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