Denys Springer is an educator and freelance writer trained in social sciences, labour studies and industrial relations, education, conflict, resolution, and mediation. Denys Springer lectures part-time at the Open Campus UWI in Saint Lucia on supervisory management – the psychology of management. By Denys Springer I begin this article by putting forward two quotes by Mia Motley who recently quoted Bob Marley which I thought was fundamental and appropriate for this article if we in the West Indies are to have some form of identity. I support her because having heard Bob Marley and his thinking - was tied up with our West Indian way of life.