Captain horace burrell jamaica
10 things about the late JFF president Captain Horace Burrell!
Horace Burrell
Horace G. BurrellJPOM (8 February – 6 June ), also known as Captain Burrell, was the president of the Jamaica Football Federation, and the senior vice-president of CONCACAF.
He was also the founder of the Jamaican restaurant chain The Captain's Bakery and Grill and Captain's Aviation, which he founded in and respectively.[1]
Early life
Burrell was born to Edward Adrian Burrell a tobacco grower in Clarendon Parish and Linda Maud Burrell.
Captain horace burrell jamaica
The youngest of four siblings (Edward, Carlton, and Winston being the others), Burrell showed an unusual passion to make something of himself and to make his family proud.
At about the time of Burrell's birth, his father, Edward, attempted to purchase the land that he was leasing for tobacco farming, but was denied.
Consequently, Edward gave up the lease and returned to the family lands in upper Clarendon where he continued to pursue general farming, growing bananas, sugar cane, citrus, some tobacco and keeping l