After leaving office, Abrahams sought to develop a tourism consultancy, pursued libel cases, primarily against the Gleaner Company, and co-ran a radio show, The Breakfast Club.

[4] He was educated at Jamaica College and studied economics, history and English at the University of the West Indies beginning in 1958.

[6] Abrahams occasionally participated in civil rights protests while at Oxford,[9] emerging as a leader at the college known for being charismatic, a talented speaker and criticizing racism.

[10] Abrahams organized the debate held in December 1964, picked the topic, secured funding and television coverage from the BBC, and invited speakers[12] including Malcolm X, who accepted.

[3][17][16] Abrahams then moved back to Jamaica and on 5 March 1967 started work in the Ministry of Tourism as administrative assistant to the director,[3][17] at the time E. Stuart Sharpe.

His initiatives included a "Meet the People" program, October "Tourism Month", and a "Courtesy Corp" tourist police.

[3][17][22] Abrahams also oversaw the establishment of the Jamaican Association of Villas and Apartments (JAVA), which organized owners who were willing to rent properties into a cooperative.

[29] In the elections of 1983 Abrahams switched to represent Kingston East and Port Royal, succeeding Glen Webley.

[31] Shortly after becoming minister, he reportedly told advertising executives that although the Jamaican government had previously not had kickbacks, "things may be different in the new administration.

"[32] An advertising executive later described Abrahams as carrying a gun in a briefcase for protection against political unrest when they met in the early 1980s.

[33] In 1982, The Globe and Mail described changes he oversaw as a "spectacular recovery for Jamaica tourism", which had declined in the aftermath of the bloody 1980 Jamaican general election.

[1] Abrahams divested state-owned hotels[34] and oversaw the creation of a "two-tier currency system" where Jamaica had an "unofficial" and "premium" dollar, with different values.

According to an interview he later gave, he was in the Jamaican delegation that met with members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and led to an early request for American involvement in Grenada.

Abrahams worked to persuade Trinidad to support the invasion and made use of his contacts from Oxford with politicians such as Wahid Ali, president of the senate.

[36] In 1984 Abrahams told a conference of the Inter American Press Association that poverty posed the largest threat to freedom and defended intervention in Grenada as a necessary "rescue mission".

[38][39] Abrahams told The Daily Gleaner the resignation was aimed at allowing him to develop his career in tourism consulting internationally.

[39] Upon Abrahams departure from the post Seaga publicly said "I pay tribute to the job he has done in managing the recovery of tourism during his three and a half years as minister.

[40] That same year he announced that he would not seek re-election due to "the political violence and character assassination which was the order of the day."

Abrahams and an advisor , Arnold Foote Jr., were reportedly offered a third of Young & Rubicam's 15 percent commission as a kickback and given $900,000 as a bribe.

In order to hide the profits, Abrahams and Foote allegedly created "Ad Ventures Ltd.", a fake advertising corporation based in the Cayman Islands.

He also filed a defamation suit against the author Robin Moore who had testified in the bribery case which was dismissed by judge Peter C. Dorsey because Abrahams would not participate in pretrial discovery.

[48] In 1990 Abe Dabdoub, a politician and attorney, wrote a letter to the JLP alleging that he had evidence proving members of the party had been spied on and hit men were hired to kill himself and Abrahams.

[49] In 1992, Abrahams and Beverley Anderson-Manley created a radio show that focused on current events, "The Breakfast Club".

[25][50] "The Breakfast Club" was intended to have a similar structure to morning television news shows in the US with emphasis on panel discussions.

A tribute was paid by Prime Minister of Jamaica Bruce Golding, who said "He was never afraid to challenge the status quo or demand change.