I was speaking not long ago to an old, dear friend, the Canadian Philip O’Meara. Philip made a remarkable contribution to his adopted country. He taught at the Guyana Training College 1970-74 when he was cited by the government for his “outstanding contribution to life in Guyana.” Students of that time have said to me he was the teacher of their lives. Dr Jagan in 1996 asked Philip to return and made the formal request to Canadian PM Jean Chretien. Philip had been back in Guyana as Canadian Head of AID 1980-83 and his former students wrote a musical play for him To Love Somebody which ran at St Roses’ auditorium in 1982.
Philip also did much work at the Theatre Guild, including playing in King Lear in 1973 when an eminent Theatre