Hyacinth Bennett

Hyacinth Delores Bennett is a Jamaican educator and politician who is the founder and former president of Hydel High School, as well as the first female head of a political party in Jamaica, when she succeeded Bruce Golding in 2001 to become president of the National [Democratic Movement |National Democratic Movement] party.
Bennett also established Hydel University as well as Hydel Prep School and is a former chairperson of the Caribbean Maritime University until 2020.
A former principal of Wolmers Prep School, Bennett began her teaching career in 1968 after graduating from Bethlehem Teachers College, in the Parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.