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By JOSEPH BURNS BONADIE IN 1967 when Sir James and the Labour Party formed the Government in St Vincent, I was in the United Kingdom with another Caribbean Trade Union colleague from Jamaica, Wesley Wainright. We had a scholarship through the British Government attached to the Department of Employment and Productivity. Upon returning home, there was an Industrial dispute sent to the Minister of Labour Sir James; I took over …

By JOSEPH BURNS BONADIE IN 1967 when Sir James and the Labour Party formed the Government in St Vincent, I was in the United Kingdom with another Caribbean Trade Union colleague from Jamaica, Wesley Wainright. We had a scholarship through the British Government attached to the Department of Employment and Productivity. Upon returning home, there was an Industrial dispute sent to the Minister of Labour Sir James; I took over …

Social Share Parnel was my close friend, perhaps my best friend at primary school in Barrouallie. He was then known as ‘PC’- Pernel Campbell. (I suspect that while preparing to take his entrance examination he realised that he was registered as Parnel, not Pernel). Parnel was very good with his hands as we would say. He made sling shots, tops and traps to catch ‘ground doves’. We went looking for tamarinds, rode scooters, played marbles and cricket on the beach. In fact, it is on one of those occasions I realised I could swim since he pushed me off the wharf and smiled as...

Social Share Parnel was my close friend, perhaps my best friend at primary school in Barrouallie. He was then known as ‘PC’- Pernel Campbell. (I suspect that while preparing to take his entrance examination he realised that he was registered as Parnel, not Pernel). Parnel was very good with his hands as we would say. He made sling shots, tops and traps to catch ‘ground doves’. We went looking for tamarinds, rode scooters, played marbles and cricket on the beach. In fact, it is on one of those occasions I realised I could swim since he pushed me off the wharf and smiled as...