Earl Montgomery Thomas, of St Lucian Mission, Wakapoa, in the Pomeroon River, Region Two had to reach rock bottom before he took control of his life.
Once an alcohol and narcotics addict, today he is a Seventh Day Baptist pastor, community and Indigenous Peoples activist, carpenter/joiner, musician, boat builder and a family man.
“I had to make drastic changes to my attitudes and behaviour,” Thomas, Secretary of the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), said in an interview at Wapakao last month about his journey from his youth to the present day.