Ras Oba News Today

Despite the heavy downpour, dozens of friends and family members gathered at the Richmond Hill Playing Field in Kingstown last Friday, July 15 to bid farewell to Richard Verdon Jacobs, affectionately known as “Ras Oba”. [caption id=

By Kenlyn Alves George “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.” Longfellow Richard Verdon Jacobs or “Ras Oba” as he was called was born in St Vincent and the Grenadines on November 7 th 1948, to Winston Bernard (Barney) Jacobs and Elsie Ermine Jacobs née Adams. He was the second of three children. …