Man for whom ferry named
“HE WALKED with kings but kept the common touch.”
This was the measure of the man which captured my imagination as my recollection of Alphonso Philbert Theophilus James reverberated within my spirit – a personification exemplified in extraordinary terms by the renowned India-born English poet Rudyard Kipling.
My most cherished recollection of APT James dates back to that exciting evening when he was heading for the UK to present a petition to the then secretary of state for the colonies, Sir Arthur Creech Jones, pressing his case for self-government for the people of Tobago. This was in the late 1940s.