A short chat with Roman during which he gave me snippets of his family history and his personal story convinced me that this man was a hero in the same mold as Yehuda Hamaccabi.
The Renwick Rose’s three-part article entitled, “Our Approach to Independence”, has given me cause to reflect on the leadership of SVG’s first Prime Minister – Robert Milton Cato, at the time of achieving full statehood in October 1979. Aloof and Elitist? The Milton Cato of whom I heard talk, was portrayed as an aloof leader, more aligned to the planter and mercantile classes, rather than to the working people of …