In the late 1970s, Courtney Blackman, an unusually outspoken central bank governor from Barbados, unleashed a strong public critique of UWI social scientists, asserting that the academics produced.
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#BTColumn – Sir Courtney Blackman on vision
Article by May 6, 2021
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by
Ralph Jemmott
The passing of Sir Courtney Blackman has left another void in the intellectual culture of Barbados. Over the last two decades we have lost a number of what some call, “engaged intellectuals.”
These comprised persons such as Gladstone Holder, Richard Allsopp, Leonard St. Hill, Leonard Shorey, Oliver Jackman and Frances Chandler. They comprised a cadre of commentators to whom one could turn for informed, critical, balanced and objectively measured judgment, whether we agreed with them or not.