By Stanley Collymore
Hail to the Man!
Hail, too, to our great
leader: the
impeccably outstanding,
forevermore
honoured and the
everlastingly
remembered,
Errol Walton
Barrow!
© Stanley V. Collymore
21 January 2020.
Author’s Comments:
A phenomenally
remarkable Bajan, inspirational leader and Father of the Barbadian Nation.
Enduring thanks, and specifically so on this Errol Barrow Day, the 21 January
2020, and also the 100th Anniversary of your celebrated birth.
These are the
immortalized, unapologetic and poignant words of Errol Barrow speaking at the
United Nations when Barbados, having through the very astute skills of Errol
Barrow himself justly acquired its independence from Britain after the distinctly
exceedingly lengthy period of 339 years of continuous colonial rule by that
latter entity, the longest in England and then the UK’s imperialistic record,
on the 30 November 1966 delivered his acceptance speech to the UN’s General
Assembly on Barbados’ attainment on becoming a member of that global
organization.
“We will not
regard any great power as necessary right in a given dispute unless we are
convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial
suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear
potential.
“We will be
friends to all, and satellites of none!”
My fellow
Bajan, mentor and personal friend I devotedly and proudly salute you!
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