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Tribute
to
Lloyd Best

TRIBUTE TO LLOYD BEST

PLAYING FOR CHANGE AS COUNTER STRATEGY
Winston Riley

THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS CULTURE
Milla Cozart Riggio

A REMINISCENCE
Reginald Dumas

FILLING THE POLITICAL VACUUM
Lloyd Taylor

LISTENING TO THE YOUTH
Natalia Kanem

A SOBER HEROISM
LeRoy Clarke

A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART
Kenneth Ramchand

A GREAT CONCEPTUALISER
Norman Girvan

LLOYD BEST AS SPORTSMAN
Dennis Pantin

EXCESS OF LOVE
David De Caires

A TRIBUTE TO LLOYD BEST
Mickey Matthews

A TRIBUTE TO LLOYD BEST
Martin G. Daly S.C.

A TRIBUTE TO LLOYD BEST
Jason Mohammed

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“…we’d be hard put to explain our current predicament without reference to what might be described as the Moses conundrum. How does a nation revise the perspectives of the desert so as to form fertile empirical judgments of what is required by the Promised Land? Over and over, I’ve been minded to ask the question in terms of the need for the heritage of culture to find ways of escaping and breaking away from itself.” ~ (Lloyd Best)

"Paying tribute to Lloyd is both easy and extremely difficult at the same time. Easy because there is an instantaneous outpouring based on an intense desire to say thanks in celebration of one who has enriched our space with his tireless endeavouring to disclose the possibility of a new world to us."

~ Winston Riley

"It is 4:00 pm on an autumn day in Hartford, Connecticut in the fall of 2003. A lecture hall that ordinarily seems cavernous has become stiflingly uncomfortable, as Trinity College [University] students and faculty vie with West Indians from Hartford’s north end for the few remaining seats before the doors are opened....."

~ Milla Cozart Riggio

" The thing about Lloyd Best is that one always knew that he was important, not important in the cocktail party sense, but important to the country. Lloyd is a man whose beliefs could never be compromised for the sake of a high sounding office or a tax-free car."

~ Martin G. Daly S.C.

" Lloyd Best and I entered Queen’s Royal College in the same class, 1A, in the same year, 1946. This immediate post-World War II period displayed the expected twin features of metropolitan authority and instinctive colonial allegiance."

~ Reginald Dumas

"Lloyd Best, as political activist and public opinion catalyst, has had an extraordinarily long run, since he launched the Tapia House Group (THG) as an intermediate political organization in Trinidad and Tobago 37 years ago, in 1968. "

~ Lloyd Taylor

"Tributes to close friends are indeed difficult to write. For me, who has been described as Lloyd Best's "fan and protegee", it has proven to be quite a task."

~ Mickey Matthews

"I've learned a great deal about how to engage young people from Prof. Lloyd Best simply by observing the man in action. We first met in New York during the tumultuous 1970s when he gave a number public lectures about Caribbean politics at various universities."

~ Natalia Kanem

"Among the intrigues of constantly shifting hemispheres of our space, there is arisen, a citizen of our highest, yet, elusive aspirations that wont to fashion our sphere in the likeness of monument and reflection as expressed by a well distinguished labour only, that can register it in its full, maturing height."

~ LeRoy Clarke

"When I marvel about how this place never manage to kill Lloyd Best/ and how he never get weary yet, and how he never lose his conviction about the green light the sustaining future that we can. build with our own hands and minds, I remember one of my favourite inspirational passages from Joseph Conrad."

~Kenneth Ramchand

"For me to pay tribute to Lloyd means that I must first give a short account of my past and what led me to his work and its profound influence on me."

~ Jason Mohammed

"I first met Lloyd Best in 1960 when he was a young economics researcher on the Mona Campus of the UWI and I, an economics undergraduate. Lloyd had a huge impact on a group of students that included Walter Rodney and Orlando Patterson and many others who went on to make a name for themselves in the social sciences, history, literature and politics."

~ Norman Girvan

"Lloyd Best’ life functions can be interpreted to be all derivative of his core pre-occupations: dreamer and visionary. From this perspective Lloyd can be seen to have exploited his roles as economist, academic, lecturer, publicist and politician to give effect to this long cast of eye."

~ Dennis Pantin

"Though he has never taken up arms physically one might feel that Lloyd Best has for the last forty years been involved in making a symbolic statement of some kind, perhaps quixotic, often deeply flawed, marked by rhetorical excesses..."

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