In the heart of London, observed daily by tens of thousands of passers-by, is a large picture of Sir Shridath Ramphal, the Cari-bbean’s elder statesman. As such, it is one of a number depicting the most internationally renowned alumni of Kings College, London.
To the best of my knowledge nothing quite like this exists in the Caribbean, a region that is not always kind to those who have provided the greatest leadership and service, let alone to one who has helped make its name internationally. It is perhaps a measure of the lesser men of his time or later, who set aside his advice and wisdom at key moments in the region’s history.
Reading Sir Shridath’s just published autobiography , Glimpses of a Global Life, one cannot help feeling his understated sadness that what he was able to