This is a republication of the story by award-winning journalist Desmond Allen, first carried in the Sunday Observer of December 26, 2004. Grub Cooper's story is featured among 20 outstanding Jamaican.
Nigel Coke, the fast-rising star in the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA) constellation, insisted he did not want a complimentary copy of the eponymous book, Desmond Allen's.
In his 50 years in journalism, Jamaica Observer founding editor Desmond Allen has interviewed scores of outstanding Jamaicans whose stories have helped to define his own career for which he received t.