Havelock Brewster's address to the UWI Graduating Class

Address to the UWI (Mona) Graduating Class on receipt of at the Degree of Doctor of Laws , Honoris Causa, of the University of the West Indies, November 11, 2008

Forty years ago, (the work of UWI social scientists) was greeted not as the “first port of call for regional leadership”, but with unprecedented hostility. The authors were hounded as communists, Marxists revolutionaries, conspirators with Fidel Castro, at best lunatics. The would-be reformers had passports seized, some expelled from the country, fired, threatened, and one assassinated...

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