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Parnel R Campbell: Outstanding servant of the people Black Power March in the early 1970s. PR Campbell is 4th from left in the front row Social Share INTRODUCTION Parnel R Campbell, who died on April 19, 2021, a few months shy of his 76th birthday, was my friend, my colleague and competitor in politics, a brother in the law, and a sage adviser. Our relationship spanned over 62 years. I first met Parnel when I entered the St Vincent Grammar School in January 1959; he had enrolled at our premier boys’ school a year or two earlier. Over the years, I followed with profound admiration the development of this extraordinary individual who was possessed of abundant blessings as: Scholar teacher, calypsonian, political and cultural activist, political organiser and strategist, leader of men and women, parliamentarian, lawyer, Attorney General, constitutional and legal reformer, public educator on the law, Christian gentleman of the Spiritual Baptist faith, se ....
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 I swam shore. He was very adventurous and had an appealing sense of humour. We passed the School Leaving Certificate and the entrance examination to the Grammar School. Following an appeal by my teacher Olson Peters/ ‘Caribbean Pete’ I was kept back to do the scholarship examination. PR then went on to the Grammar School and lived with his mother and the rest of his family at Frenches ....
Social Share In paying my respects to our dearly departed brother, P.R. Campbell, permit me to begin by saying how touched I was by the presentation last Monday night by PR’s daughter Mandella, of her late father’s seminal project, the voluntary television programme “The Law and You”, as well as her maturity in handling the account of his last days. ‘Nuff’ respect to you, my sister, and don’t ever let them try to saddle you with any grievance they might have had against him. Wear his legacy with pride and convey my sincerest condolences to your Mum, Julie, and the rest of the family. ....
Social Share Foh dis week and maybe next week, ah paying respects to Five Vincy (Five in ah Row) who would have left us but not before planting ah Monument. RAWLE “MARSHIE” MARSHALL, ah career Public Servant during de Joshua, Cato and Mitchell Administrations. Even back den like now, we had Senior Public Servants who sang straight from de politickan’s song sheet to get promotion. Marshie however operated under strict, moral principles, was no politrickan’s fear-foh-it, and was therefore very un-pop- yuh-law. Ah was one of his Assistant who benefitted from his Administrative Skills, when he was Store Keeper at PWD Arnos Vale. Around 1963, De Canadian Contracting Firm (CCC), was building de Kingstown Wharf, ah project financed by de Canadian Government. De Contactors wid special treatment, bought ah lot ah Go-venom-mint materials (cement etc) duty free, creating serious shortages of cement foh local Contractors on Government Projects. De Contractors comp ....
Social Share Foh dis week and maybe next week, ah paying respects to Five Vincy (Five in ah Row) who would have left us but not before planting ah Monument. RAWLE “MARSHIE” MARSHALL, ah career Public Servant during de Joshua, Cato and Mitchell Administrations. Even back den like now, we had Senior Public Servants who sang straight from de politickan’s song sheet to get promotion. Marshie however operated under strict, moral principles, was no politrickan’s fear-foh-it, and was therefore very un-pop- yuh-law. Ah was one of his Assistant who benefitted from his Administrative Skills, when he was Store Keeper at PWD Arnos Vale. Around 1963, De Canadian Contracting Firm (CCC), was building de Kingstown Wharf, ah project financed by de Canadian Government. De Contactors wid special treatment, bought ah lot ah Go-venom-mint materials (cement etc) duty free, creating serious shortages of cement foh local Contractors on Government Projects. De Contractors comp ....